. it features a smooth or scaly cap that ranges from yellowish to tawny or reddish brown, a very fragile and quickly lost cortina -like partial veil , a skinny stem that darkens with handling or in age, and spores - μ long. my definition ofthe species may not completely match your field guide's definition...
, medium-sized mushrooms belonged in thegenus. over the centuries, however, mycologists placed more and more ofthemushrooms in other genera. in the last decade or so the decimation was completed with the creation ofthe new genera rhodocollybia, gymnopus, and dendrocollybia, leaving only three species...
so far have been unsuccessful. they are not widely eaten in the united states, but worldwide they rank third in consumption, just behind agaricus bisporus (the common store mushroom) and lentinus edodes (shiitake). indeed, straw mushrooms have been used for food in china for two thousand years. baskets...
season. moving ever outward leaving depleted ground within the circle. those who have opened their minds, hearts and souls to the realms of magic may speak to you ofthe fairies. those who know the fairies will tell you that fairy rings are where the fairies dance and perform many ofthe rituals of...
clitocyboid mushrooms with spiny spores and pinkish spore prints, as a separate genus, while others viewed the lepistas as a section within thegenus clitocybe. if you noticed the quotation marks i placed around "clitocybe" and you are now waiting for me to pull the taxonomic rug out from under your...
because they have amyloid spores . never mind that other genera ( amanita , for example) manage to hold species with both amyloid and inamyloid spores. and never mind that the sole character separating thegenus floccularia thus involves the color reaction of its spores, as seen by the human eye through...
--so by the time you read this the picture may have changed substantially. for the time being, however, psathyrella is still a fairly large genusof saprobic gilled mushrooms with dark spore prints (ranging from brown to black or dark purplish gray), "snap-able" stems, and frequently hygrophanous caps...
of features: a white spore print ; gills that are attached to the stem; a cap and stem that are densely covered (at least when young) with powdery granules that are easily rubbed off; a partial veil that becomes a sturdy or ephemeral ring on the stem; a pileipellis with inflated, chained-together terminal...
you'll find gills where you expected pores. the similarity to boletes continues under the microscope; the spores in this genus look rather like the spores of boletes. some phylloporus species even bruise blue, like some boletes. as you might imagine, the fact that phylloporus species look like boletes...
down the stem, and stems that are often--though not always--bright yellow near the base. the flesh in the cap and stem is white, and observation of this feature is sometimes the best way to separate species of gomphidius from species of chroogomphus , which can appear similar but feature orangish to...