spores, this mushroom is pretty distinctive under the microscope--but not to the naked eye. despite its current genus name, it looks like a whole slew of boring, brown psathyrella species, and until very recently it was known as psathyrella conopilus (or psathyrella conopilea). like species in psathyrella...
seem to agree that a dark brown to purple-brown spore print , the absence of prominent veil remnants (other than an occasional cortina or a few wisps of tissue on the cap margin), smooth spores, and the presence of chrysocystidia (sterile cells on the gills that contain refractive, yellowish contents...
estimated well over a thousand). although themushrooms in cortinarius are very diverse, it is usually pretty easy to figure out when you are looking at one, once you get the hang of it. first, they have cortinas covering their gills when young (hence the name ofthegenus); sometimes the tiny fibers...
waxy, and are usually purple, pinkish, or (caucasian) flesh-colored. the cap colors range from whitish to, more commonly, orangish brown or reddish brown--while a few species are purple. laccarias are never slimy, which helps in separating them from the waxy caps , and their gills are attached to the...
melanoleuca" turns out to be after the first couple of times. most melanloleucas can be identified to genus without recourse to microscopic examination, through a combination of features: terrestrial habitat; white spore print ; nearly flat cap; tough, slender stem; gills close or crowded, attached to...
the bitter taste, and the fact that a drop of koh applied to any surface on the mushroom turns red. but while this entolomatoid mushroom is fairly easy to identify, figuring out which name to give it is not an easy task. if such things interest you, here goes: which genus name?...
ago, there were two north american honey mushrooms: armillaria mellea and armillaria tabsescens —and thegenus armillaria held many mushrooms. this state of affairs was too easy for mycologists, however. someone had to go and point out that armillaria contained many mushrooms that differed widely in...
glue them together. suspend all the tubes from a board, so they hang downward--then wait for the seeds fall out. somewhere along the long line of natural history, the boletes decided that this would be the most successful way to survive. their caps look like the caps ofthe gilled mushrooms (a group...
viruses , [ ] in biology . in the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family . in binomial nomenclature , thegenus name forms the first part ofthe binomial species name for each species within thegenus. e.g. panthera leo (lion) and panthera onca (jaguar) are...
to the stem or run down it. most ofthe species have a partial veil , but the veil can manifest in several different forms—from cob-webby ring zones to full-blown rings . roughly a dozen species occur in north america. many of these are parasitic , and many form visible black rhizomorphs in the wood...