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prominent dark brown to black scabers all over the stem surface. on our continent the species appears to be limited to urban areas, popping up in landscaping, woodchips, and grassy areas along roadsides. the illustrated collection is an example of what a selfless, popular, easy-to-talk-to, devoted mushroom
gary lincoff, author of the audubon field guide to north american mushrooms and, without doubt, our continent's most revered and adored mushroom guru, found the illustrated mushroom while scouting for a foray in pennsylvania (appropriately, the western pennsylvania mushroom club's annual gary lincoff...
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michael kuo no, "cf" doesn't stand for "chicken fried," even though i am writing this in the midwest (where, for the uninitiated, we actually have a popular meal called "chicken fried steak"). it's a mycological convention that abbreviates a latin verb for "compare" (conferre)—as in, "compare this mushroom
to boletus edulis." in other words, "cf" is what mycologists say when they don't want to actually say, "i dunno; maybe." maybe it's boletus edulis , the well-known, classic european species. like the european mushroom, our eastern north american version has a tacky, bald cap—and, like the european species...
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