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ZBrown
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**OFFICIAL U.S.A. 2012 MUSHROOM THREAD**
#15795181 - 02/11/12 10:10 PM (12 years, 14 days ago) |
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I just got tired of double checking all the different areas to find pics of great shrooms. Let's ALL post our finds here across the board. From sea to shining sea.
-------------------- There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die. GIFSoup
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ZBrown
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Re: **OFFICIAL U.S.A. 2012 MUSHROOM THREAD** [Re: ZBrown]
#15795215 - 02/11/12 10:18 PM (12 years, 14 days ago) |
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I'll start with my finds. All in active all far. But I'm in north Texas and it hasn't gotten above 58 degrees yet. But warm weather is coming next week. I've been hunting three times and this is all I've gotten in this cold weather
-------------------- There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die. GIFSoup
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suchen
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Re: **OFFICIAL U.S.A. 2012 MUSHROOM THREAD** [Re: ZBrown]
#15797895 - 02/12/12 02:15 PM (12 years, 13 days ago) |
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Sorry to be rude, but I think this thread is overreaching a bit. Probably 60-70% of the content of the Mushroom Hunting and Identification forum is finds from the U.S.A. which means this thread would be extremely dense and everything would get sucked in and rather lost. Sort of a MH&I black hole. I bet starting an official Texas inactives thread would help a lot of people though
-------------------- Rod Tulloss said: The bulb is the bulb. The volva is the volva. They have a very long term realtionship, but they’re “just friends.”
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Alan Rockefeller
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Re: **OFFICIAL U.S.A. 2012 MUSHROOM THREAD** [Re: suchen]
#15798006 - 02/12/12 02:35 PM (12 years, 13 days ago) |
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Psilocybe cyanofriscosa
Berkeley, CA.





Here are some Psilocybe cyanescens from San Francisco




Psilocybe cyanescens, San Francisco, CA







Psilocybe cyanofriscosa, Berkeley, CA


Psilocybe cyanofriscosa
San Francisco, CA









Psilocybe cyanescens








Here are some Psilocybe cyanescens pics from Marin, CA.













Psilocybe cyanofriscosa
Marin, CA

















Windy Hill Open Space Preserve, Portola Valley, CA

Sarcoscypha coccinea

oyster

Lactarius rubidus (candy cap)
Under a massive, old oak tree

Pseudoclitocybe cyathiformis
Thanks to shroomydan for the id
These were everywhere once I looked for them



This Agaricus xanthodermus is being eaten by another fungi. (Hypomyces?)

Lenzites betulina



Agaricus xanthodermus
Immediately staining yellow, smells like ink

Hericium ramosum



Psathyrella sp.




Camarophyllus pratensis

Calocera cornea

Armillaria tabescens
edit: Actually a Lyophyllum sp.


Hebeloma or Pholiota


Gymnopilus sapineus





Cantharellus californicus



Bolbitius vittelinus



Brachybasidioles 200x, from a thin slice of the pileipellis, brightfield illumination



Spores brown, smooth, ellipsoid-truncate with a large germ pore, 13 x 9 micrometers. 10.8 micron divisions.



Cheilocystidia, 200x, darkfield








Coprinopsis atramentaria
The pleurocystidia keeps the gills far enough apart that the spores can shoot out and fall down between them.









Clitocybe nuda

There are so many everywhere I look

This mushroom outnumbers all others ten to one right now

I took a bunch of stem bases to help compost weeds in my yard

Gill edges 100x, stained in congo red
No cheilocystidia or pleurocystidia was observed



Gymnopilus cf sapineus

Spores roughened, immediately dextrinoid
6.5 - 8.0 x 4.5 - 5 micrometers
Pileus trama interwoven, taste bitter.
Pleurocystidia present, clavate and mucronate
Cheilocystidia capitate, mucronate, clavate
6.33 x 4.32 6.54 x 4.85 7.57 x 4.50 7.57 x 4.94 7.73 x 4.99 7.74 x 4.94 7.91 x 4.68 7.95 x 4.89 8.03 x 5.42 8.27 x 4.53
Cystidia 200x


Spores 1000x, 10.8 um divisions

Spores immediately dextrinoid

Stipe trama 200x

Pleurocystidia abundant, mostly narrowly clavate, sometimes mucronate or capitate. Some of the pleurocystidia are labeled as lecythiform in the images but I think a better descriptive term is capitate.




The "Hebeloma or Pholiota" posted above kind of looks like a Hebeloma

Spore print

Pileipellis 200x

Cheilocystidia 200x


Spores 2000x, 10.8 micron divisions

Pleurocystidia abundant, narrowly cylindrical, 200x

The "Armillaria tabescens" above turned out to be a Lyophyllum sp. - A. tabescens does not occur in California.

Spores white, smooth, elliptical-ovate, with a conspicuous hilar appendage, no germ pore
8.1 – 8.9 × 4.8 – 5.6
8.07 × 5.03 8.32 × 5.01 8.55 × 5.60 8.67 × 4.78 8.73 × 5.13 8.76 × 5.19 8.90 × 5.34
Spores 1000x

Cheilocystidia 200x

Hericium ramosum

Spores globose, 4.5 – 4.8 × 3.8 – 3.9
4.51 × 3.78 4.62 × 3.99 4.69 × 3.85 4.69 × 3.99 4.83 × 3.85

Cheilocystidia 200x






Psathyrella longistrata

Here is some red Tubaria punicea that was found in Soquel Demonstration Forest this Sunday by martystu. It's a rare species.

spores

Mycena sp., CptnGarden collection (location: hidden villa)


I thought this was Craterellus when it was found it but now I am not so sure. (location: Soquel demo forest)

Mycena sp.

Helvella?
Its weird to see something like this growing off of wood, but all of these that were found were growing off wood.

Here is some Geoglossum that Civ found.

Not really sure what this is. May be a Peziza.
top:

underside:

Hygrocybe flavescens




Helvella?



Hygrocybe coccinea




Galerina cf. badipes


Helvella compressa



Camarophyllus pratensis


Pseudohydnum gelatinosum



I found this common wood rotter which makes the wood bright red, Phanerochaete sanguinea

And a green wood rotter which turns wood a nice shade of turquoise, Chlorociboria aeruginosa
(sanguinea is latin for blood; aeruginosa is latin for corroded copper)

Hygrocybe sp.


Mycena acicula


Agaricus semotus




Plectania sp.

Agaricus albolutescens



Psathyrella sp.


Amanita novinupta

Cantharellus californicus





Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve
Clavulinopsis fusiformis

Spores globose

Hygrocybe citrinovirens

Mycena acicula
 Cantharellus californicus









Psathyrella candolleana

Cheilocystidia on the tip of a gill edge shows interesting encrustations

Spores ellipsoid-truncate with a large germ pore, 10.8 micron divisions

Melanoleuca sp.

Interesting harpoon shaped cheilocystidia


Ornamented spores

Agaricus albolutescens - These are really common under live oak right now. They smell like almonds and taste great.





Amanita ocreata (destroying angel)
Based on the survival rate, these are a whole lot more potent than the death cap

Note the solid stem!



Psathyrella longipes

Albino P. longipes:


Plectania sp.

Nolanea sp.

Hygrocybe singeri



Amanita constricta


Habitat:

Lactarius argillaceifolius var. megacarpus

Agaricus semotus
These smell strongly of almonds



Phyllotopsis nidulans


Panus conchatus

Location: Eastern Shasta-Trinity National Forest, near medicine lake but lower in elevation.
Tricholoma vernaticum




Gyromitra gigas - Growing near Douglas Fir and morels. Somewhat common. The locals call them bulls nose.



Nolanea holoconiota



Ramaria



Calvatia sculpta













Deconica montana




Panaeolus papilionaceus



Xeromphalina


Lactarius deliciosus
These were found in a dry valley with lots of pine and no other mushrooms anywhere around.





I found these in a burn near grizzly flat. The burn area was very large and I found at least 30 patches of morels in the two hours I was there, I was picking almost constantly until the sun went down. Most of them were dried in place, I got about 50 fresh ones and hundreds of dried ones. They seemed to be fruiting best under the pines with the shorter needles (about 3 inches long, maybe a sugar pine). The burn happened about two years ago. Although I parked in the most obvious place and everyone knew about the burn I didn’t see any footprints or evidence of other pickers.





This is morel habitat. I found quite a few between the western red cedar and dead sugar pine to its left.






This is a blonde natural that I found on Saturday under douglas fir. It looks quite a bit different from the others I found and its clearly staining red.



Sarcodes sanguinea is a parasitic plant that feeds on mycelium





Amanita calyptroderma
I think these grow with pine
We ate some, I like them but not everyone does.








Boletus rex-veris
These were growing with western red cedar












I found about 100 morels ground around this tree:

These are just some of them

How many morels are in this photo?













This orange cup fungus (Geopyxis carbonaria) was found in the same habitat. It looks really boring under the microscope.



We thought this was a Psathyrella in the field but when I got it home it turned out to be Inocybe. It has lots of cool spiky encrusted cystidia.

















The total haul was around 15 lbs between two people.

Sarcodon calvatus
Mild flavor, growing with with douglas fir





Boletus rex-veris
Growing with pine and incense cedar












Wow. They never turn out this good at home.

Boletus calopus var. frustosus
These could be confused for butter boletes except the cap isn't red. They taste very bitter after a few seconds. Oronito collection.




A rust


Unidentified plant pathogen



Boletus regius
Butter boletes









Suillus ponderosus being eaten by Hypomyces



Calbovista subsculpta



A large Cortinarius sp.




A small snowmelt Cortinarius

Nivatogastrium nubigenum
A secotioid snowmelt Pholiota





10.8 micron divisions


Nolanea holoconiota
This is the pointy mushroom that sometimes shows up in my avatar





Rhodocollybia maculata


Caloscypha fulgens
A bright orange blue staining snowmelt cup fungus.

Clitocybe glacialis
An extremely common snowmelt mushroom


Mycena nivicola
A snowmelt Mycena


Heterotextus alpinus


An undescribed snowmelt Pholiota


Interesting glutinous veil

Clitocybe albirhiza


Oligoporus leucospongia
A snowmelt polypore

Hygrophorus subalpinus
These taste pretty good




Gymnopus sp.




Strobilurus diminutivus





Puccinia sp.
or something




Psathyrella





Kuehneromyces vernalis
An edible lookalike of the deadly Galerina




Cortinarius magnivelatus



Hygrophorus caeruleus

Trichaptum biforme





Boletus regius sensu Thiers
Thiers described this species as B. regius, however the real B. regius from Europe is non-bluing.











A plant that eats mycelium

Boletus rubripes
Smooth stem, blue staining. No reticulation. Fruits with and later thanp B. rex-veris and butter boletes
Bitter after a few seconds





Boletus rex-veris



Hygrophorus purpurascens

Nolanea holoconiota


Caloscypha fulgens



purple Ramaria

Handkea fumosa



Morchella elata





fir trees above the morel






Agaricus albolutescens

Boletus rex-veris





Hygrophorus caeruleus




Unidentified at the moment. T. flavovirens?

Kuehneromyces vernalis





Calbovista subsculpta


Gymnopilus croceoluteus from Salt Point State Park, California
Distinguished from Gymnopilus luteocarneus by the interwoven cap trama.




Pileipellis 200x

Pileus trama interwoven



Spores 1000x, 8.7 micron divisions

Cortinarius phoeniceus var. occidentalis






Tricholoma aurantio-olivaceum




Clavaria vermicularis

Cortinarius sp.
Windy Hill Open Space Preserve

Bolbitius aleuriatus


Psathyrella conopilus
Lacking a pseudorhiza. Fuzzy stem base.







Hemitrichia
I am fruiting this stick in my house now. In the past couple days the color has changed from orange to brown.

Chlorophyllym brunneum

Galerina sp.


Psathyrella sp.

Conocybe or Galerina
Growing in my penis plant.



Pulcherricium caeruleum
Its going to turn purple.

Artomyces pyxidatus
Rare in California but common in the east


Cortinarius sp.


Cantharellus tubaeformis



C. tubaeformis shares the tanbark oak habitat with Hydnum umbilicatum

Hydnum umbilicatum






Mycena sp.
With Russula silvicola and Hypholoma fasciculare
I am not convinced that its a Mycena but thats what the people on mushroomobserver call it



spore print

gill edge (interesting lack of cystidia)
Or maybe its just clavate.


Spores 1000x

Cortinarius sp.

Gomphus clavatus



Pseudohydnum gelatinosum


Mycena aurantiomarginata




ID?


Camarophyllus russocoriaceus
Strong odor of cedar / perfume


Clavulinopsis laeticolor

Boletus edulis var. grandedulis
Its not a queen bolete despite the tanbark habitat due to the reddish pores in age.



Gomphus floccosus
These can be seen in the first bolete pictures above also

Tricholoma magnivelare
I made miso cilantro soup with these and it was really good.



Cantharellus formosus
This species is smaller than our common california chanterelle (C. californicus) and has a more pronounced apricot odor.



Hygrophorus russula


Phaeocollybia olivacea


Psilocybe cyanescens


Pseudoclitocybe cyathiformis


Galerina marginata

with Inocybe sororia




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suchen
Once and Future Noob



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That's awesome about how the pleurocystidia on C. atramentaria keep the gills far enough apart for spores to drop!
Also,
-------------------- Rod Tulloss said: The bulb is the bulb. The volva is the volva. They have a very long term realtionship, but they’re “just friends.”
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Byrain


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Re: **OFFICIAL U.S.A. 2012 MUSHROOM THREAD** [Re: suchen]
#15798255 - 02/12/12 03:21 PM (12 years, 13 days ago) |
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Mite/Midge gall? What kind of plant was it?
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Psathyrella with a pleated cap? I would of guessed some kind of inky cap.
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Alan Rockefeller
Mycologist

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Re: **OFFICIAL U.S.A. 2012 MUSHROOM THREAD** [Re: Byrain]
#15798625 - 02/12/12 04:21 PM (12 years, 13 days ago) |
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Mite/Midge gall? What kind of plant was it?
I am not sure.
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Psathyrella with a pleated cap? I would of guessed some kind of inky cap.
There are no Psathyrella with pleated caps, this is probably Coprinellus impatiens.
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NeoSporen
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Quite the collection of pics Alan!!
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ZBrown
I like girls because boobs



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Re: **OFFICIAL U.S.A. 2012 MUSHROOM THREAD** [Re: NeoSporen]
#15798832 - 02/12/12 04:59 PM (12 years, 13 days ago) |
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Awesome pics!
-------------------- There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die. GIFSoup
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wavyedge


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Posts: 409
Loc: Canada
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Alan, I take it your posting was a bit of a joke at the thread title?
You do some some awesome pictures/experiences logged there.
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Alan Rockefeller
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Re: **OFFICIAL U.S.A. 2012 MUSHROOM THREAD** [Re: wavyedge]
#15799181 - 02/12/12 06:01 PM (12 years, 13 days ago) |
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Quote:
bfogg8706 said: Quite the collection of pics Alan!!
Thanks. That is exactly 3.6% of all of the mushroom pictures I have uploaded. I would have put more but I didn't want to crash everyones browser.
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