pleurotoid mushrooms. they have white spore prints and often smell and taste mealy. thegenus is full of drab colors, from boring shades of beige to dull browns and blacks, which might lead one to call them "ho-hum-buehelias"--except that other defining features ofthegenus include stunning "metuloid...
the gilled mushrooms , rivaled only by the oyster mushrooms . you probably won't need to make a spore print in order to see the orange to orange-brown or rusty brown color ofthe spores, since spore dust frequently coats everything within a few inches ofthe mushroom. in fact, you should be careful what...
. the species are mycorrhizal with a wide range of trees, and can be found in most woodland ecosystems on our continent. many species of hebeloma have a veil that can be reminiscent ofthe cortina in cortinarius --but the veil, when present, is often ephemeral, and many species lack the veil entirely...