surface and is usually arched gracefully downwards and away from the stem; fairly bald above the ring, but densely scaly below; white at first, becoming brownish toward the base with maturity; base with white mycelial threads . flesh: white, becoming brownish in the stem with age; not changing when sliced...
gary lincoff, author of the audubon field guide to north american mushrooms and, without doubt, our continent's most revered and adored mushroom guru, found the illustrated mushroom while scouting for a foray in pennsylvania (appropriately, the western pennsylvania mushroom club's annual gary lincoff...
enough and, in the moss, green-on-green enough, that we would not have seen them from a distance, or even from the standing position. mycologist tom volk once told me that, at the closed gates of heaven, bad mycologists are forced to revisit their woodland trips and are shown the many incredible mushrooms...
debated for many years, and it is likely that none of the current species concepts is particularly accurate. for a thorough account of the putative differences between russula sororia and similar brown russulas, see roberts ( , p. ). russula amoenolens and russula pectinatoides are very similar mushrooms...
bald or finely hairy; white; with a fragile white ring that is easily lost; with a white volva that typically clings tightly to the bulb and extends to form a free rim on the upper edge of the bulb, but may fragment into soft patches or warts at the top of the bulb. flesh: white; unchanging when sliced...
scattered fragments and patches, rather than the well defined concentric rings and zones that characterize the other north american varieties. i have collected amanita muscaria var. persicina only once, in a loblolly pine forest in georgia. i was pretty thrilled with the red-bruising stem base of the mushrooms...
, eventually, vase-shaped, with an uplifted margin; very finely hairy, or nearly bald; moist; dark brown. gills: running deeply down the stem; close; short-gills frequent; whitish. stem: – cm long; – cm thick; more or less equal; bald or minutely hairy; pale brown. flesh: whitish; unchanging when sliced...
america) and has a slimier cap, as well as a sturdy, gracefully arched ring and a shaggy stem. leratiomyces squamosus var. thraustus also differs microscopically (it lacks chrysocystidia). leratiomyces ceres was called "stropharia aurantiaca" until dna studies began to break up the stropharioid mushrooms...
it has traditionally been placed in the tricholomataceae, but dna studies have not supported this idea. most recently, lodge and collaborators ( ) have informally placed phyllotopsis nidulans in what they call "the basal hygrophoroid clade," closely related to but separate from the hygrophoroid mushrooms...
to cm across, lavender gray becoming brown; pore surface with – pores per mm; spores ellipsoid; clamp connections present in generative hyphae. grifola frondosa . cap usually round in outline, rather than kidney-shaped, lobed or irregular; stem usually more or less central; multi-capped or fused mushrooms...