me; like pluteus cervinus , it is one of those species with fascinating microscopic features that are not predicted by its drab macrofeatures. the spores are roughened or finely warty, and have little snouts—while the gills feature cool, knob-headed cystidia. how much more action-packed could a mushroom...
here is tentative. peck's original description of lepiota eriophora recounts a small, thin-capped, brown lepiotoid mushroom with very small spores and a stem "clothed with brown tomentum." the cap is brown, and features scales that are "compact" and "sometimes pointed." the gills are described as darkening...
through dna analysis--and there are several european morel species (including, especially, morchella costata) that appear, based on photos, to match the morphology and ecology of morchella importuna. speaking of photos of this species: the massive morels in the well known and oft-gawked-at photo of mushroom...
term for immature forms of yellow morels like morchella esculentoides ). the name "morchella atrotomentosa" has been applied to the species described here by mcknight & mcknight ( )--but this name is invalid for several reasons (see morchella atrotomentosa for details), and represents a european mushroom...
strigosus, originally used by fries ( ) has been problematic because of competition from an entirely different "panus strigosus," named by berkeley & curtis ( ), now generally known as pleurotus levis. to clear up the confusion drechsler-santos and collaborators ( ) provided a new species name for the mushroom...
embedded in a blackish ooze, but these begin to disintegrate from the top down and the thin outer rind breaks apart to expose the interior, releasing spores; often the area surrounding pisolithus arenarius is covered with cinnamon brown spore powder. your north american field guide probably calls the mushroom...
is usually a dull, tawny brown, though yellowish collections are not uncommon. the cap surface bears small brownish scales (at least when young), and the stem bases are fused together and somewhat pointed. in my area (central illinois) armillaria tabescens is a prolific late summer and early fall mushroom...
" boletus viridiflavus was originally described by coker & beers ( ) from north carolina. they described the cap color as "a peculiar olivaceous gold with reddish areas." in other respects the species is a dead ringer for boletus auriporus. coker & beers used the name "boletus auriporus" for the mushroom...
luteo-olivaceum is pretty boring, though it becomes slightly more interesting with the application of koh (its cap turns purplish red) or under the microscope, where its spores turn purple in koh. actually, about that last bit: it's a little complicated. the spores turn purple in koh only after the mushroom...