north america, where it is associated with mountain mahogany—shrub-like trees in thegenus cercocarpus, including birchleaf mountain mahogany , which is what the illustrated and described collection was growing under in larimer county, colorado. cercopemyces crocodilinus is reminiscent of some species...
hunting nemeses. as far as i am concerned, they are about as cool as mushrooms can get; some of them parasitize underground puffballs, while the rest attack insects. but the challenge for a mushroom hunter is to recognize cordyceps in the woods and manage to dig up, collect and/or photograph the parasitized...
platyphylla) featured in field guides--a medium-sized, deadwood-associated mushroom with a white spore print , a streaked-looking brown to gray-brown cap, and a stem base often attached to white cords. however, a recent study (hughes and collaborators, ) based on dna results for specimens from across the...
have chosen it to represent the "typical" features of pholiotas--namely, a scaly cap and stem (thegenus name means "scaly" in greek), a brown spore print , attached gills, and a partial veil . pholiota squarrosa may require microscopic analysis for certain identification (see below), but its dry cap...
the real luis vuitton as opposed to the "luis vuitton" the guy in the parking lot at the leaning tower of pisa wanted to sell you are mostly social and legal. we're talking about the quality of your views ofmushrooms. . . . which probably means, if you're like me, that you can't afford a new microscope...
once-vast genus collybia , collybia cookei grows from the ground or from the blackened remains of other, larger mushrooms. its stems are attached to "sclerotia"--little knots of tissue buried in the substrate. you'll need to pry around and uncover the sclerotia if you want to identify collybia cookei...
. 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 $#!...
, is easily separated from the others on the basis of its size and its stem. three other north american species, often treated broadly as "sarcoscypha coccinea" in field guides, are more difficult to separate, and may require microscopic analysis for identification. all four are keyed out below. key...
kuo this beautiful mushroom is found in california's coast redwood forests, over winter. it features a deep blue, slimy cap that quickly turns dark red--then slowly fades to dull yellowish. its stem is also slimy. the mushroom is essentially a blue-then-red version ofthe well known "parrot mushroom...
(or, better said, "squats") out from the crowd with its gray cap and seemingly truncated stem, which is much shorter in proportion to the width ofthe cap than the stems of most melanoleucas. microscopic features (see below) include funky, harpoon-tipped, frequently septate cystidia. description: ecology...