both during the day and at night when they will illuminate in a colourful spectacle. the mushrooms are only around until august th so make a date to enjoy the art at south village before then by going on a mushroom hunt and dining in any number of the fabulous eateries at the centre. the luminous flight...
featured here, first described in by lloyd and later emended by corner ( ). both index fungorum and mycobank list the combination "thelephora americana (peck) sacc.," from , representing a mushroom originally called "thelephora palmata var. americana" by peck and now known as thelephora anthocephala...
saddle-shaped appearance. its color is extremely variable. the west coast version of gyromitra infula (see the bottom illustrations), which may be a separate species, tends to get larger than its eastern counterpart, and seems more prone to -lobed and odd-ball manifestations. additionally, this western mushroom...
matures. stem: - cm long; - cm thick; more or less equal above a fairly abrupt, swollen base; finely mealy or dusty near the apex; developing scales below, often in more or less concentric bands; whitish, but the scales often capturing spores as the mushroom matures and thus becoming brownish; without...
: i am sorry to put it this bluntly, but this mushroom is not going to cure your cancer, nor any other ailment you may have—and if someone has sold you a product based on the assumption that it will, you have purchased some snake oil from a witting or unwitting charlatan. the only health benefits associated...
skim milk, and by maturity is almost watery. the cap is often zoned with beautiful shades of dark reddish brown, but the zones may be faint, or may resolve by maturity, leaving the cap evenly colored. when young there is a whitish dusting on the cap. the stem darkens from the base upward as the mushroom...
expert jay justice. the little mushroom appeared to be one of a gazillion little lepiotoid species best sorted out with microscopic analysis, until it began to bruise pinkish and reddish. then jay and i watched in amazement as it began to turn blue--first on the stem, then the cap, and finally, when...
woods dominated by black locust and one in grass next to my house, under the drip of an air conditioner, with a large honey locust tree feet away. leucocoprinus flavescens may simply be a synonym of leucocoprinus straminellus (better known by its former name, leucocoprinus denudatus), but the latter mushroom...
), partially distinguished by its white spore print and its darkening stem with white mycelium at its base. under the microscope, however, the mushroom is completely transformed and becomes fascinating and unmistakable; it is covered with dramatic cystidia and "broom cells" (special cells with finger-like...