--but they are terrestrial and have central stems. the tube layer on the underside ofthe cap is not easily removed, which helps separate the dozen or so species from the boletes . identifying species of albatrellus is not an insurmountable task, although there a few instances in which microscope work...
, i collected volvariella hypopithys. it was a small, white mushroom with pink gills and a gorgeous white volva encasing the base ofthe stem like a sack. its cap was dry and silky, and its stem was finely fuzzy. there were two specimens, growing from the ground near the edge of a dirt road, under both...
features a brown spore print and a small, fan-shaped fruiting body—but unlike other species in thegenus, it is brightly colored, making it fairly unmistakeable. the little mushrooms are brightly colored and fairly easy to see, but they are particularly tiny, maxing out at about cm across. both ofthe...
mushrooms. it seems like i only find them when they are past their prime, looking nothing like they're "supposed to." take cortinarius violaceus, which is a beautiful deep purple species—a fact immediately in evidence in laurence boomer's photos to the right, representing a collection he made and sent...
and slender stature, their white spore prints and their tough, rooting stems, which taper underground. there is no partial veil or universal veil (among the north american species, anyway), so the relatively thin stem lacks a ring or a volva . most ofthe north american species occur under hardwoods...
(one frustrating hurdle in the study and identification of cup fungi involves the fact that immature specimens are often collected, making study ofthe spores impossible.) ideally you should mount your sections in % koh and in melzer's reagent, since the reaction ofthe ascus tips to melzer's (bluing...
that typify the toothed mushrooms . one good way to see the difference is to compare two classic and common wood rotters: the polypore trametes versicolor and the crust fungus stereum ostrea (sometimes called the "turkey tail" and the "false turkey tail," respectively). from above these mushrooms look...
has the white spore print , notched gills, medium stature, and other features that define thegenus tricholoma ; it lacks a partial veil , which means there is no ring on the stem; it grows under pines in poor, sandy soil; it has a yellow cap that becomes brownish with age and lacks blackish appressed...
--well, suillus-ish. true, i found it under hardwoods, but there are a very few suillus species described from hardwood habitat, and they are yellow (or yellowish), at that. true, the pore surface is not conspicuously radially arranged (say that three times fast) and true, there are no glandular dots...
be merely a pale suillus granulatus growing under ponderosa pines . aside from the paler cap and association with ponderosa pine, suillus kaibabensis is hardly distinct, though its glandular dots tend to become large and elongated, and its cap turns reddish (rather than grayish) when a drop of ammonia...