, but it is fairly widely distributed east ofthe great plains. it resembles an agaricus in many ways, but its gills are attached to the stem and usually develop a purplish gray or purplish brown cast by maturity. it is a drab, dirty yellowish species that is unremarkable except for its fairly large...
flesh—or, if they have matured, spore dust. this separates them from buttons of some gilled mushrooms that have universal veils and can appear like puffballs, since those mushrooms display the future mushroom in cross-section. some slime molds can appear like puffballs, as well, but when sliced open...
are shaggy to scaly, blackish or grayish mushrooms with partial veils and woolly stems. their flesh stains pinkish or orangish red when sliced, then slowly turns black. species of strobilomyces are mycorrhizal with hardwoods in eastern north america. many ofthe reigning concepts in strobilomyces taxonomy...
cortinarius appears in summer in the forests of central illinois, apparently in association with hickories . like the european species cortinarius caerulescens (first described in from germany) it features purple colors, a bulbous stem base, and copious white to yellowish universal veil material on...
the bitter taste, and the fact that a drop of koh applied to any surface on the mushroom turns red. but while this entolomatoid mushroom is fairly easy to identify, figuring out which name to give it is not an easy task. if such things interest you, here goes: which genus name?...
separated from other species in thegenus on the basis of its cap color, which is dark liver brown—but older, faded specimens of leucopaxillus gentianeus can be more or less indistinguishable from other mushrooms in the leucopaxillus albissimus complex, and beginners might confuse even the young specimens...
be unmistakable. but a microscope is probably needed to separate it confidently from the very similar stropharia aeruginosa . the principle feature separating these two species is the sterile cells on the edges ofthe gills: in stropharia aeruginosa they are capitate and lack refractive contents, while...
of both hardwoods and conifers. it features a fairly large cap, bitter taste , a stem with a ring or ring zone , and an orange to brownish orange spore print . in fact the "spore print" often surrounds themushrooms in nature, and it can be quite effusive. i once ruined a pair of jeans collecting gymnopilus...
ago, there were two north american honey mushrooms: armillaria mellea and armillaria tabsescens —and thegenus armillaria held many mushrooms. this state of affairs was too easy for mycologists, however. someone had to go and point out that armillaria contained many mushrooms that differed widely in...