distributed under conifers in north america--though it is much more common in the west under douglas-fir . collectors have often noted that gomphidius subroseus is frequently found with suillus lakei in the vicinity, and it was long thought that this was a coincidence enabled by the fact that both mushrooms...
doubts about its status as a separate "species"; not a lot, other than the color, separates it from gyroporus castaneus , which is much more common and which, as its name suggests, is brown. neither testing chemical reactions nor microscopic analysis provides a better means of separating the two mushrooms...
as always in inocybe. phillips ( , p. ) points out that inocybe hystrix and inocybe lanuginosa, for example, are easily confused in the field. the latter species has nodulose, funky spores that couldn't be more different from the smooth, more or less elliptical spores of inocybe hystrix--but both mushrooms...
last summer, is to rub the stem repeatedly, spill irish whiskey on it, and convince yourself that it bruised blue . . . so that you can call it "inocybe calamistrata" without putting it under the microscope, and pour some more drinks. the more difficult, time-consuming route is to dry some of the mushrooms...
fusoid-ventricose, or mucronate, often with a very long neck; hyaline in koh; thin-walled; smooth. pleurocystidia not found. pileipellis with inflated, clavate to pyriform, capitate, or subglobose cells. references : h. v. smith, . herb. kuo . this site contains no information about the edibility or toxicity of mushrooms...
its repeatedly and conspicuously forking gills and its often acrid taste; additionally, its cap surface lacks the radial veins often found on russula cyanoxantha and, under the microscope, its pileipellis lacks pseudocystidia that are yellowish in koh. there may be several distinct north american mushrooms...
are young, but the "mouth" of the urn gets wider as the mushrooms mature, and older specimens are often shaped more like goblets or cups. description: ecology: saprobic on sticks and small logs (often buried) of hardwoods; growing alone, scattered, or in dense clusters; spring; widely distributed east...
putative species from the broader, field-guide-ish concept of amanita volvata: a stocky western version with surfaces that stain pinkish, then brown; and a small, eastern north american putative species with sparser veil remnants and a lined cap margin, probably corresponding to the illustrated mushrooms...
russulas like russula densifolia . it pops right out of the top of its victim, usually when the russula has blackened and begun to decay. believe it or not, there are other mushrooms that parasitize russulas and are superficially similar, including species of collybia and the other species of asterophora...
way down switch-backs in la plata county, colorado, when we agreed that no matter how tired we were, we couldn't pass up mushrooms we could see from the car from yards away!...