the surface ofthe substratum." if you have seen the film alien, you may recall actor john hurt playing the substrate for an erumpent extraterrestrial. colpoma quercinum does more or less the same thing to oak twigs, shoving itself through the bark, then opening its spore-bearing surface. the mature...
"aspen oyster," since it appears to be limited to the wood of quaking aspen and closely related trees (aspens and cottonwoods in thegenus populus). it is northern and montane, corresponding to the range ofthe host trees. pleurotus populinus is a well established biological species (meaning that it...
fragile and hard to see against the forest floor. its thin little cap is grayish, with a darker center, and the base of its stem is encased in a small, whitish, sack-like volva . it differs from species like volvariella pusilla in its darker colors, and from volvariella taylorii in its slighter stature...
like a russula . russula earlei might be fairly characterized as the opposite: a russula that looks like a hygrophorus. its waxy-textured cap, along with its thick and distantly spaced gills, are not typical for thegenus--but once you have determined it's a russula, russula earlei is easily identified...
caps are typically a shade of fairly dark brown, with whitish margins (when fresh); the undersides ofthe caps are bald but wrinkled, often into tight little bumps. under the microscope, thelephora terrestris features angular, spiny spores and brownish, clamped tramal elements. thelephora americana...
-like mushroom with tough-fleshed branches that arise from a thickened, stem-like base. but the two species are not even closely related, and thelephora anthocephala features gray branches that begin to flatten at their tips. it is associated with hardwoods, turns black with koh , has no distinctive...
collectors is the dearth of available technical literature. i know several mycologists who maintain that kauffman's treatment of russula species in the great lakes area is still one ofthe most comprehensive and useful overall treatments ofthegenus on this continent!...
. it features a slimy cap and stem, and its purple to lavender or lilac colors become spotted with yellowish to tan areas—eventually fading to dull grayish tan overall. like other species in thegenus, it features a cortina and a rusty brown spore print . cortinarius iodeoides looks identical to the...
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does not fit very well into thegenus cantharellus; mycologists currently place it in its own genus, polyozellus, in the thelephoraceae. polyozellus multiplex is an inhabitant of low, wet spruce and fir forests in northern and montane north america; it usually grows in clusters (which can measure up...