under conifers. it is common in the pacific northwest and california, but is apparently also occasional throughout northern and montane north america. aside from the cap color and odor, distinguishing features include the orangish tinge to the gills (which becomes more pronounced with maturity), and...
clitocyboid mushroom that features a pinkish tan cap that becomes fairly deeply vase-shaped by maturity. its pale, crowded gills run down the stem, which is pale in comparison to the cap. other distinctive features include the white mycelium on the stem base and, usually, a faintly sweet odor. the very...
(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...
to stews, stir-fries and fillings. straw mushrooms also called bulb mushrooms in vietnam and cambodia, straw mushrooms (nam rom) look like tiny brown eggs. thewholemushrooms are often used in braised dishes for appeal and texture.once peeled, however, they reveal small dark brown caps and stocky,...
confusing puffball . to my eye it looks quite a bit like scleroderma citrinum , since it develops warts and pyramid-shaped scales—but its interior is soft and white (turning to brown), not hard and black like the flesh of a scleroderma. lycoperdon subcreataceum has been tossed around from genus to genus...
. it lives up to its name — it looks, smells, and tastes like oysters. with virtually no stalk, this mushroom's oyster-shaped caps usually grow in layers on dead deciduous wood (or on some supermarket shelves), like clusters of oysters. the moist, hairless, fragrant, white to smoky-gray caps are - inches...