Category Archives: Mushrooms

#04 Unidentified Agaricus sp.

October 19, 2010Mushrooms, Unidentified MushroomsSteve

Growing on forest litter.

Ring and partial veil.

Chocolate brown sporeprint.

#03 – Armillaria gallica getting ready to sprout

October 19, 2010Armillaria gallica, MushroomsSteve

Fledgling Honey Mushrooms!

Revisiting these patches later yielded loads of Armillaria gallica, so these are the earlier stages of their development.

See [specimen number pending].

#02 Agaricus arvensis – Freaky!

October 19, 2010Agaricus arvensis, Agaricus macrosporus, MushroomsSteve

Another Horse Mushroom, popped on the same day as Specimen 2010/10/19#01 but in a different spot several miles away.

All features except the crazy scaling on the cap match. Also A. arvensis (in my experience) tends to be rather picky in the rain/temperature conditions in which it’ll grow. Since they popped at the same time as the other specimen, that’s an indicator of their similarity.

The crazy scaling is probably due to the high wind / dry area in which they were growing (think of how a loaf of bread bakes in the oven, the crust hardening and then still soft dough bursting through it to form new crust).

Also, there is some possibility that this might be one of those fuzzy-areas between A. arvensis and A. macrosporus (which grows in conjunction with pines), as these specimens were found growing near oak trees (as you can see the acorns in the images).

Perhaps this is worth a bit more study.

#01 Agaricus arvensis

October 19, 2010Agaricus arvensis, MushroomsSteve

Growing on grass.

Young specimens smelled like a cross between ouzo/licorice and almonds.

Cogwheeling on the ring.

Spores (on index card, hence the fibers) chocolate brown.

Some flesh bruised pale yellow. Meat of stem bruised grey-buff (base did not bruise anything).

#11 Artomyces pyxidatus

October 16, 2010Artomyces pyxidatus, MushroomsSteve

Beautiful specimens all lined up on a log.

A tiny bit old.

#10 Unidentified Toothed Shelf Mushroom

October 16, 2010Mushrooms, Unidentified MushroomsSteve

At first I thought this could have been something in the Hericium genus, but the shelf-cap was too well defined.

I’m baffled as to this one’s identity.

#09 Unidentified Bright Red Polypore

October 16, 2010Mushrooms, Unidentified MushroomsSteve

Growing on wood.

#08 Aborted Entoloma?

October 16, 2010Entoloma abortivum (Aborted Entoloma/Armillaria), Mushrooms, Unidentified MushroomsSteve

It’s not a puffball, but it was growing by itself. No clue what this could be.

The closest thing it seems it might resemble is the shape and texture of an Aborted Entoloma, but there’s no way to test that now as the specimen was lost during transport. Either case it seems unlikely.