written by matthew ponsford, cnnlondon in , jules verne's sci-fi novel "journey to the centre of the earth" imagined explorers walking beneath a forest of -foot mushrooms "crowded together like the round roofs of an african city." lewis carol's "alice in wonderland" and h.g. wells' "the first men in...
taste : odor not distinctive; taste variable, ranging from acrid (sometimes slowly) or peppery to mild. spore print : pale cream to buff. chemical reactions : koh negative on cap surface. microscopic features : spores - μ; globose or subglobose; ornamentation - μ high, as spines and ridges forming broken...
orangish; iron salts on stem surface negative to pinkish. microscopic features : spores - x - μ (but reported by roberts [ ] as - x - μ in the pacific northwest); with mostly isolated warts extending - μ high; connectors scattered, not usually creating reticulated areas--but occasionally forming broken...