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7 Feb 2020 2 minute read 3 comments Solominer
While walking a trail at this wildlife management area, I saw a mushroom cap sticking out of the ground. The area was wooded and had some large trees all around. Along with some kind of plants growing on the ground all over campsite. It has made a me...
5 Dec 2019 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano
Panellus serotinus - Hat 40-130 mm; shelled, kidney-shaped, fan-shaped, spatulate; initially convex, arched, with an inclined edge, later flat, with a straight edge; attached to the ground with the side, short shaft. Surface dry, smooth or suede; Th...
5 Dec 2019 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano
Bolbitius titubans var. titubans - Hat diameter from 10 to 50mm. The color is initially lemon yellow, golden yellow, yellow green, olive yellow, faded in old age, gray-brown, with a darker brownish center. The shape of the young fruiting body is ova...
4 Dec 2019 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano
Elaphomyces asperulus - The fruiting body has a diameter of 10 to 50 mm, in the shape of a spherical, often longitudinally flattened. Surface covered with low, dull, sometimes slightly sharpened warts. The colors are initially matte-yellow, cinnamon...
4 Dec 2019 1 minute read 1 comment marianomariano
Exidia saccharina - Spider fruit span 30 to 80 mm. In the shape reminiscent of the cerebral ganglia, krizowaty, flap-shaped, grown up. Colors of yellowish-brown, brown, browned or brown sugar. The surface (with a generic layer) has barely visi...
4 Dec 2019 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano
Encoelia furfuracea - Mushroom reaches up to 15 mm in diameter and up to 2 mm in thickness; the young fruiting bodies are hollow, have a spherical shape; during puberty, they open, become flat and have a starry shape; in their youth they have a coff...
2 Dec 2019 1 minute read 1 comment marianomariano
Psathyrella candolleana - A hat with a diameter of 40 to 70 mm, initially bell-arched, then flat, with a thin, ragged margin, very brittle, absorbent; surface dry, dull, smooth, with little visible radial furrows, often frosted in young specimens; w...
29 Nov 2019 1 minute read 1 comment marianomariano
Russula emetica, commonly known as sick, vomiting russula or vomiting russula, is a basidiomycetes fungus and a genus of Russula. has a red, convex to flat socket with a diameter of up to 8.5 cm, with a skin that can be torn almost inwards. The gi...
22 Nov 2019 3 minute read 0 comments Solominer
I usually see fungus growing on dead tree logs, but in this case a grouping of live trees had some wood loving mushrooms growing on their trunks. These trees were on the edge of the creek, and had three trunks coming from the crown of the tree. C...
22 Nov 2019 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano
Amanita muscaria - Red Toadstool The highly poisonous species, though, the young sporocarps lacking white dots fried in butter are a delicacy. During the Second World War, the Soviet Red Army ate even those with dots. But it's a different human spe...
