wide-meshed reticulum on the upper portion of its stem, the lack of any blue staining on its surfaces and flesh, and the blue-green reaction of its cap surface to ammonia . its pore surface is yellow before it turns olive, and the pores themselves are large and angular. this description, however, applies...
american english . the english word "skua" comes from the faroese name for the great skua , skúgvur [ˈskɪkvʊɹ] , with the island of skúvoy renowned for its colony of that bird. the general faroese term for skuas is kjógvi [ˈtʃɛkvɪ] . the word "jaeger" is derived from the german word jäger , meaning...
thegenus, which is a "plus" when it comes to identification efforts--but the accompanying "minus" is that the large size of this mushroom makes it easily confused with species of tricholoma (stem usually more stout; spores inamyloid) or leucopaxillus (gills often separable as a layer; copious mycelium...
not white or whitish--although it does share many oftheother lepidella hallmarks: a shaggy, "appendiculate" cap margin; a rooting stem base; an odd odor; and amyloid spores. add to these features the small to medium size of amanita onusta and its gray-on-gray cap (its pale gray cap surface is covered...
binomial name of sequoia sempervirens. [ ] endlicher probably derived the name sequoia from the cherokee name of george gist, usually spelled sequoyah, who developed the still-used cherokee syllabary. [ ] the redwood is one of three living species, each in its own genus, in the subfamily sequoioideae...