--well, suillus-ish. true, i found it under hardwoods, but there are a very few suillus species described from hardwood habitat, and they are yellow (or yellowish), at that. true, the pore surface is not conspicuously radially arranged (say that three times fast) and true, there are no glandular dots...
, the gulf coast, and along the great lakes. its habitat and its thick, purple gills distinguish it from just about anything else--though if you are in eastern canada, the similar sand-loving laccaria maritima can only be reliably separated with a microscope (details below). lacaria trullisata" (with...
the cap and stem are tawny brown to brick red--or paler, when faded by sunlight. like other species of cystoderma , cystoderma granulosum has a cap densely covered with granules which, as the mushroom matures, may begin to separate or wear away. there is no true ring on the stem, and the spores are...
is a small, brown melanoleuca that lacks the distinctive harpoon-like cystidia found on the gills of most species in thegenus. a microscope will thus be required to identify it--and if you decide to forego microscopic analysis and simply call your little brown specimen " melanoleuca melaleuca " i can...
be merely a pale suillus granulatus growing under ponderosa pines . aside from the paler cap and association with ponderosa pine, suillus kaibabensis is hardly distinct, though its glandular dots tend to become large and elongated, and its cap turns reddish (rather than grayish) when a drop of ammonia...
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...