from colorado and new mexico. it is similar to amanita populiphila , but features a more deeply colored cap and a much more sturdy, sack-like volva . the brassy orange cap is only slightly lined at the margin, and the volva often features orangish hues on its inner surface. although this species has...
in central illinois, in late summer and fall. it is a member ofthe tricholoma pessundatum species group—a group of species with sticky brown caps and whitish gills that develop reddish brown spots and stains. however, tricholoma pessundatum is a european species associated with conifers. tricholoma...
analysis for identification, lactarius subflammeus associates with conifers and features white, unchanging milk and an acrid taste. its pileipellis is an ixotrichoderm (separating it from lactarius rufus, which has a non-gelatinized cutis) arising from a layer of somewhat inflated cells (separating it...
--but a combination of features makes it fairly distinct among similar species: large size (mature caps - cm across); soft warts or patches on the cap surface; a fragile, soon-disappearing ring ; a large and abrupt, powdery bulb at the stem base; spores measuring - x - μ; southeastern distribution. amanita...
are quite similar—but it can be distinguished by its smooth stem and its lined cap margin. the closest commonly found look-alike, volvariella hypopithys , has a densely but finely hairy stem, and a non-lined margin, while other known look-alikes have caps that are not completely white. volvariella pusilla...
common under oaks in the southeastern united states. it is easy enough to identify: the cap is usually a pale shade of yellowish brown, and its margin is often scalloped or pleated at maturity; the gills are very distant; and the milk, which is white when exuded, dries pink and stains the gills and...
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from hygrocybe miniata to hygrocybe squamulosa and even hygrocybe punicea , but can be separated on the basis of its broadly attached gills, dry cap and stem, and (especially) its distinctively sweet odor, reminiscent of honey that has turned a little foul, best detected when specimens are drying or...
with a fibrillose to scaly brown cap and a gorgeous purple-blue, roughened stem. microscopic features, which should definitely be ascertained for positive identification, include distinctive heterodiametric spores that have very shallow angles between the sides, cheilocystidia, and pileipellis elements...
. my friend and i made a movie, mr. puffball, in which a softball-sized puffball with a slit for a mouth was held puppet-like by beth, who narrated in her best mr. puffball voice as we toured themushroomsof indiana county, pennsylvania. tylopilus plumbeoviolaceus was one of mr. puffball's favorites...