the appalachians, tapinella atrotomentosa is easily recognized by its habitat on conifer stumps and decaying conifer logs; its gills, which run deeply down the stem and which are separable as a layer (see the illustration); and its velvety, dark brown to black stem. older field guides treat this mushroom...
a small, conic cap, reminiscent of a mycenoid mushroom or even an inocybe . however, its pink spore print and angular spores place it definitively in entoloma. its cap is radially fibrillose and dark brownish olive, and its thin, whitish stem has a covering of stiff hairs near the base. it's like someone...
if you catch it in its early stages of development, when it is distinctively parrot-green (and decidedly slimy). but it quickly begins to change colors, turning yellow or orange, and then fading to a sort of dingy straw color. by the end of this transformation, the parrot mushroom has become a nondescript...
the stem or running down it; distant or nearly so; white; waxy; short-gills frequent. stem: - cm long; up to cm thick; equal or with a somewhat tapered apex; when fresh sheathed with slime over the lower portion; white at the apex; covered below the slime with brown fibers that stretch out as the mushroom...
colorations, its white milk--which stains paper, your hands, and everything in sight brown--and its tendency to develop a fishy odor that increases in fishiness over time after the mushroom has been picked. its cap is relatively bald, and only slightly wrinkled at maturity, separating it from the similar...
on stumps--although i have on rare occasions seen it in the woods, acting as though it belonged. it can be fairly easily identified by its relatively large size, and its distinctive swollen stem, which turns yellow, then slowly reddish, when rubbed. its cap is scaly, and also turns reddish as the mushroom...
that pluteus admirabilis, named from new york in the late th century, is actually the same species as pluteus chrysophlebius, named from south carolina in . the justo study recommends abandoning the name chrysophaeus altogether, since the original, th-century illustration of the species indicates a mushroom...
same as the true, european species has not been investigated, to my knowledge—but the eastern version's spore sizes correspond to the european species, while the western version's spores are too large to match. the german name for verpa conica, "fingerhutverpel," tells you something about both the mushroom...
appears to be quite common in some years, but missing entirely in other years, even when other mushroom "regulars" are coming up. a nearly identical species, cantharellus texensis, was described from texas in (buyck and collaborators) on the basis of differences in dna and microscopic features: the...