More on this one when I have time. I think I have it nailed.
UPDATE: Crepitodus sp.?
August 26 ‘07 – Lot 7
I’ll post more on this one when I have time. Note the pretty red stem.
August 26 ’07 – Lot 6
I’ll post more on these when I have time.
August 26 ’07 – Lot 5
Agaricus campestris taken from known rings. 🙂
August 26 ’07 – Lot 4
Marasmius oreades caps taken from known rings. 🙂
August 26 ’07 – Lot 3
One small white mushroom growing in litter under an unidentified tree.
Cap is white and striated with a faintly yellower very very small boss in the center. It’s very thin and fragile.
Gills tan-gray and close. Very thin. Short gills. Remnants of a partial veil along the inrolled margin.
Stem white, hollow and also fragile.
Spores pending.
Image Glitch
Before continuing with entering in the mushroom journal posts, I’m going to have to fix a glitch with the image uploads. Somehow WordPress is glitching and overwriting some of the images, but not others, that have the same filename, and is also not updating thumbnails. I’m going to see about fixing this, but for the meantime, trust no images on my description pages.
Peace
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Steve
August 26 ‘07 – Lot 2
These my wife and I came upon after we decided to stop mushrooming for the afternoon. Wow… They were huge.
A lot of 7 boletes found growing in the grass under an oak tree. There were hundreds of buttons still there. Two of the biggest, pictures above, grew into each other, merging their caps at the top.
Cap in largest specimens was nearly 9 inches wide. Pale reddish-brown (the buttons were more striking brick-red) and cracked revealing yellowish underneath. Dry. Buttons were somewhat convex/campanulate which expanded to flat. Tan flesh and nice and soft.
Pores are yellow, bruising dark green-blue that fades to brown.
Stem is a few inches tall and up to an inch thick. Surface doesn’t bruise any color, is rust-red on top and then cream on the bottom. Fleshy and tan, bruising bluer than the gills, but still green-blue. A bit of red staining at the base.
Spores olive, elliptical.
August 26 ’07 – Lot 1
Lot of 6 mushrooms found growing in mulch under cedars. The bases were infested with termites (which I found rather odd).
Cap on the largest specimen was 5 inches across. White with what appear to be very small warts (UPDATE: Was just dirt from transport.). Small smattering of light brown here and there. Slightly inrolled margin.
Gills are a pleasant light brown to slightly pinkish brown. Crowded and short, free from stem. Youngest specimen had gray-buff gills and partial veil.
Stem was about 4-5 inches long, white, very prominent floppy ring. Very slightly bulbous at the bottom. Some infested with termites.
Spores dark chocolate brown.
UPDATE: Upon visual comparison of both macro features (cogwheeling on the ring, slight yellow-staining on the cap in pic 5) and spores, this appears to be a specimen of Agaricus arvensis or Agaricus macrosporus.
August 26 ’07 Mushroom Hunt
Wow… what a bounty. On a whim Nayla and I decided to go on a mushroom hunt to pull in some of our regular Agaricus campestris, Marasmius oreades, and possibly some assorted Puffballs, but we brought many more different varieties than we expected. 🙂
Here’s the total below. I’ll be adding in detailed entries as I set them up for spore prints. I figure that this blog is the best method to keep a mushroom journal.
First Row: 7 blue-staining Boletes of unidentified variety (5 mature, 2 buttons)
Second Row: 1 unidentified white mushroom growing on debris, a handfull of Marasmius oreades (Fairy Ring Mushroom) caps, 8 small Agaricus campestris (Meadow Mushroom).
Third Row: 3 unidentified field mushrooms, 1 unidentified field mushroom (possibly the same as the first, but different stem color), 1 Gyrodon merylioides (Ash Bolete).
Fourth Row: 1 unidentified Psathyrella(?), 5 small assorted Puffballs, 11 Lycoperdon, 6 Calvatia.
And then there are 6 possible Agaricus of some persuasion or another, but there are some features that may prove otherwise.
Details coming soon!