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SvenLittkowski
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To be Identified: Tree Mushroom
#17165444 - 11/05/12 12:30 PM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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Habitat: Where does it grow? Jamaica, Caribbean. What does it grow on? Wood on a meadow. Gills: Please see the attached photos. Stem: Please see the attached photos. Cap: Please see the attached photos. Spore print color: In process... Bruising: In process... Other information: Please see the attached photos. The picture quality is rather low, as I had only my cell phone with me when I encountered the mushrooms.
PS: this website is nearly not usable when using a cell phone (Nokia Asha 201) for the display. Each page comes with way too much text on top, and before I reach the essential parts of a page I have to scroll endlessly. Please try out by yourself. Also, picture upload does not work from my cell phone.
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Ran-D
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Look like Oysters to me.
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SvenLittkowski
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Re: To be Identified: Tree Mushroom [Re: Ran-D]
#17166887 - 11/05/12 04:15 PM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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Oysters? Thanks. I would still like more opinions from other people.
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theWOZZ87
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Although they do resemble oysters in color and gill formation I think they might be Clitocybe Gibba also known as the common funnel which is a good edible. They also bear resemblance to gomphus clavatus also known as pig's ear, which is another good edible but the normal colors of pigs ear are darker. I would always wait for a Trusted Identifier though. Nice find though, they look to be in prime condition.
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theWOZZ87
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Re: To be Identified: Tree Mushroom [Re: theWOZZ87]
#17167734 - 11/05/12 06:18 PM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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Can we get a TI up in here!! lol
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suchen
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Re: To be Identified: Tree Mushroom [Re: theWOZZ87]
#17167768 - 11/05/12 06:21 PM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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They look like Pleurocybella porrigens (probably shouldn't eat this) to me, but I am not great with oyster-like species.
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theWOZZ87
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Re: To be Identified: Tree Mushroom [Re: suchen]
#17167881 - 11/05/12 06:33 PM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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Interesting, the last picture kinda looks like Pleurocybella porrigens but the first few, not so much. Also most of the Pleurocybella porrigens that I looked at appear to be a more pure white color throughout their life-cycle. Anyone else have an opinion/suggestion? This one has got me quite interested.
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SvenLittkowski
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Re: To be Identified: Tree Mushroom [Re: theWOZZ87]
#17169310 - 11/05/12 09:56 PM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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Well, so many saying this might be one of the edible ones. I will google for these botanical names given by you all, then make my mind and grab my teeth into the mushrooms. Maybe. If you all recognize I am not posting anymore thereafter, then you know that this wasn´t that edible, ha ha ha! please continue to assist me with the identification, great thanks to everyone!
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SvenLittkowski
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Alright, I was just browsing for images of the three species mentioned so far, with Google. So far, I believe the "Pleurocybella porrigens" has the closest resemblance, what do you all think about it?
I will now read more about that species in Wikipedia. This thread is NOT closed, please continue to post your opinions and guesses!
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Ran-D
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Do you know what kind of tree that is? Angel's wings grow on conifers as far as I know.
I still think they look like some crazy Oysters, Pleurotus ostreatus.
Edited by Ran-D (11/05/12 11:13 PM)
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suchen
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Re: To be Identified: Tree Mushroom [Re: Ran-D]
#17170902 - 11/06/12 06:46 AM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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Hmm, they may be too meaty for angel wings. Tough call.
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Ran-D
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Any way you can get some less blurry pictures?
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SvenLittkowski
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Re: To be Identified: Tree Mushroom [Re: Ran-D]
#17172931 - 11/06/12 02:09 PM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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Still not sure, what kind of tree that was. However, I made some more photos today of the remaining mushrooms and of the tree trunk.
When I came back today, they had cut the lawn and also most of the mushrooms. I was fortunate to got a slice of the trunk with the mushrooms, so I hopefully can grow them now on the original stem at my house.
When those mushrooms are young, their color has shades of ivory: white to light yellowish. Older and dryer, they get darker, like honey yellow.
I am adding some more photos. See here the mishroom two days older, dryer. Also see here the tree trunk, maybe it tells what kind of tree it is.
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Edited by SvenLittkowski (11/06/12 03:56 PM)
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SvenLittkowski
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More opinions needed.
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fungal_alchemist
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Oysters have a whitesh grayish spore print. Did you end up taking a print?
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SvenLittkowski
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I tried, even on a dark underground (a spent coffee ground and saw dust mix), but the result, if any, was so thin that I wasn't sure if there was a slightly light spore print or just an illusion. So I prefer to answer, that I have no reliable spore print yet.
Here a photo of the mushroom and the invisible spore print below.
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Edited by SvenLittkowski (11/07/12 01:17 PM)
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Alan Rockefeller
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They are oyster mushrooms, you can eat them. The older ones get tough though...They dry out pretty quick in the full sun. I'd give them some shade and set up a sprinkler to go off for a minute every hour next to them.
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SvenLittkowski
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Thanks. Someone told me, they also look similar to the genus Hohenbuehelia with its individual species. True? Any suggestions which H. species?
Otherwise I would agree they could be oyster mushrooms, probably pleurotus pulmonarius.
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Ran-D
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Quote:
SvenLittkowski said: Someone told me, they also look similar to the genus Hohenbuehelia with its individual species. True? Any suggestions which H. species?
I think those tend to grow more on woodchips then straight out of stumps, but I could be wrong.
Next time just cut off a specimen and take a spore print on a piece of foil.
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