--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...
"artist's fungus," ganoderma applanatum ; in this group the caps are dull brown. in both groups the pore surfaces bruise brown (sometimes slowly), and the flesh turns black with koh . species of ganoderma are parasitic and saprobic on the wood of hardwoods or conifers, and are relatively picky about...
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may be able to tricholoma , but lomas are not very observant and they get bored easily. you, on the other hand, will not be tricked, since you will notice the fibers and scales on the cap and the stem—as well as the mealy odor and taste , the often-grayish gills, and the growth under hardwoods in the...
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...