pileipellis with inflated, chained-together terminal elements; elliptical, smooth spores that are either amyloid or inamyloid, but never dextrinoid. the microscopic characters are usually not needed to successfully determine you are looking at a cystoderma, since the granulated coating is so distinctive. mushrooms...
rings on lawns, in meadows, and in other grassy places. many other mushrooms create fairy rings , however, and if the e-mails i often receive are any indication, the use of the common name "fairy ring mushroom" for marasmius oreades leads to substantial confusion, causing chlorophyllum molybdites ,...
gillman & miller ( ) and arora ( ) describe melanoleuca evenosa as a large species with white gills from western mountain ecosystems, growing under conifers in springtime, often near melting snowbanks. the illustrated collection was made near sea level in a coastal california ecosystem, and the mushrooms...
kuo these large, unmistakable "cauliflower mushrooms" can be found growing from the bases or roots of trees in eastern north america's hardwood forests (the western version is sparassis radicata ). recent dna studies (wang and collaborators, ) support the idea that there are at least two species, or...
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continent, and they are often encountered by morel hunters and others who are eager to spend time in the woods after a long winter. although these mushrooms can be labeled "entoloma vernum" in a field-guide-ish sense, many of north america's springtime entoloma species are probably unnamed--and even...
involves simple measuring of mature spores. key to gomphidius species in north america . with a veil of slime covering the young gills, leaving thick slime on the stem as the cap expands. . without a slime veil; stem not slimy. . mature stem not bright yellow at the base. gomphidius smithii at roger's mushrooms...