. deconica argentina, like its better-known cousin deconica coprophila, is "coprophilous," meaning it pops up in piles of dung—usually the dung of horses or cows. mmmm, mmmm, mmmm. if you know these mushrooms, you really know your $#!...
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?...
the stem. in old age the slime on some limacella species can dry up, and they are then likely to be confused with members ofthe lepiota family. when young they can approximate the waxy caps , but do not have thick, waxy gills that are broadly attached to the stem. dna studies have apparently confirmed...
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...
genus are so unpopular among amateur (and professional) mushroom folks--it is inocybe rimosa, also known as inocybe fastigiata. it looks like literally dozens ofother inocybes--and even under the microscope it is confusingly indistinguishable. so there really is no point in listing the distinguishing...
. thegenus volvopluteus was recently separated from volvariella by justo and collaborators ( a, b) when it turned out that volvariella gloiocephala and like species with sticky-when-fresh caps and large spores were actually more closely related to species of pluteus than to other, dry-capped, smaller-spored...
many, many leccinum collections from across the continent is the key to an eventual mycological understanding ofthegenus; see kuo, ("mushrooming in the age of dna: now comes the fun part") for further discussion and suggestions. my treatment of leccinum (which is far from complete) is more "mycological...
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...
separated from other species in thegenus on the basis of its cap color, which is dark liver brown—but older, faded specimens of leucopaxillus gentianeus can be more or less indistinguishable from othermushrooms in the leucopaxillus albissimus complex, and beginners might confuse even the young specimens...
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