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BittrBuffalo
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Roadside Finds
#18734389 - 08/20/13 09:12 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Ever find yourself just walking along, minding your own business, and suddenly you notice a mushroom out of the corner of your eye...and you're all, "Can't...resist...must...hunt...NOW!!!!" then next thing you know, you're in the dirt taking pictures of fungi with your iphone, making unsuspecting dog-walkers uncomfortable while your arms are being gang-raped by mosquitoes?
I was so busy gleefully stuffing these reishis into a grocery bag that I forgot to take pictures of them in their natural habitat to annoy my friends with later:

There's this, which I believe to be Boletus innixus:


The pore surface is bright yellow and the pores are relatively large. No discoloration when cut or bruised. Cap is brown and crackled in appearance, growing in the grass nearby a mixed forest (mostly deciduous). Haven't been able to get a spore print off of it yet. The cap is about 2" wide and the whole mushroom is about 2-3" tall.

The small one was somewhat bulbous at the base of the stem. The flesh is actually a bit more yellow than it looks in the picture, and you can see the small root-like bit at the bottom of the stem.

I found another one of these. I think we determined it to be Russula sp. last time. It's not really this short--it looked it had been knocked over. Still cool looking, though:

I need help with this one, though. It's a big heap, at least 12" wide. Orange-brown, floppy trumpet shaped mushrooms. Gills are decurrent, though the stems are distinct. The larger mushrooms are at least 6" long. I found it in the woods (in Virginia) growing out of the ground near the reishis.



I was thinking Cantharellus appalachiensis, but those are supposed to smell like apricots. It may be because they are past their prime, but they smell funky and in no way like apricots. I can't really describe it, but it's distinct and non-mushroomy. Haven't been able to get a spore print yet, but the area that I removed the clump from had an off-white powdery appearance.

Too bad I didn't find it like 2 or 3 days ago. Any ideas?
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koods
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The last ones look like old Jack-O-Lanterns. They are all over the place right now. I took some home tonight to see if they glowed in the dark like they are supposed to (nope) and they have the smell of death.
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Edited by koods (08/20/13 10:00 PM)
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Lhun
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Re: Roadside Finds [Re: koods]
#18734625 - 08/20/13 10:05 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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I see what looks like white spore deposit on the last ones, I think they might be some old crusty Honey Mushrooms (Armillaria sp.)
Edit: was there a dead tree or stump nearby? Armillaria grow on wood, and sometimes roots below ground.
Edited by Lhun (08/20/13 10:06 PM)
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BittrBuffalo
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Re: Roadside Finds [Re: koods]
#18734682 - 08/20/13 10:16 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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koods said: The last ones look like old Jack-O-Lanterns. They are all over the place right now. I took some home tonight to see if they glowed in the dark like they are supposed to (nope) and they have the smell of death.
Mine don't glow in the dark. The Mushroom Expert is doubtful of the bioluminescence and thinks it's a conspiracy to make us feel like idiots for staring at mushrooms in the dark. 
http://www.mushroomexpert.com/omphalotus_illudens.html
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koods
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BittrBuffalo said:
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koods said: The last ones look like old Jack-O-Lanterns. They are all over the place right now. I took some home tonight to see if they glowed in the dark like they are supposed to (nope) and they have the smell of death.
Mine don't glow in the dark. The Mushroom Expert is doubtful of the bioluminescence and thinks it's a conspiracy to make us feel like idiots for staring at mushrooms in the dark. 
http://www.mushroomexpert.com/omphalotus_illudens.html
At least I'm in the company of experts.
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RiparianZoneJunky
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Re: Roadside Finds [Re: koods]
#18734719 - 08/20/13 10:22 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Lhun said: I see what looks like white spore deposit on the last ones, I think they might be some old crusty Honey Mushrooms (Armillaria sp.)
Edit: was there a dead tree or stump nearby? Armillaria grow on wood, and sometimes roots below ground.
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koods said: The last ones look like old Jack-O-Lanterns. They are all over the place right now. I took some home tonight to see if they glowed in the dark like they are supposed to (nope) and they have the smell of death.
I vacillated between these two as well, probably leaning toward old armillaria. They both can share the exact same habitat (I've found them growing from opposite sides of of the same old snag), so where they're growing won't clarify much.
@ OP, those are some nice reishi.
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BittrBuffalo
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Re: Roadside Finds [Re: Lhun]
#18734724 - 08/20/13 10:22 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Lhun said: I see what looks like white spore deposit on the last ones, I think they might be some old crusty Honey Mushrooms (Armillaria sp.)
Edit: was there a dead tree or stump nearby? Armillaria grow on wood, and sometimes roots below ground.
There was a dead stump sort of nearby that the reishis were growing from, though the mushrooms are more orange and don't have rings on their stems.
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RiparianZoneJunky
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BittrBuffalo said:
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Lhun said: I see what looks like white spore deposit on the last ones, I think they might be some old crusty Honey Mushrooms (Armillaria sp.)
Edit: was there a dead tree or stump nearby? Armillaria grow on wood, and sometimes roots below ground.
There was a dead stump sort of nearby that the reishis were growing from, though the mushrooms are more orange and don't have rings on their stems.
A. tabescens lacks an annulus. Really hard to say, both grow in big clusters like that, I've seen honeys in PA that look very similar when they're old and nasty. You could check the substrate for the black rhizomes to confirm. Either way, they're too old to be of any use.
If you're on the west coast I'd say omphalotus olivascens, if east coast I'd lean toward some kind of armillaria. What's your location? EDIT Looking more closely at the pics I see the tell-tale white dusting on the tops of the caps, some has been washed off but it definitely looks like some kind of armillaria to me.
Edited by RiparianZoneJunky (08/20/13 10:37 PM)
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BittrBuffalo
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Re: Roadside Finds [Re: koods]
#18734800 - 08/20/13 10:35 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Fuck. Now I'm going to have to go around chasing mushrooms in the dark because glow in the dark mushrooms are just way too cool.
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BittrBuffalo
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I'm in Virginia. I think I've found A. tabescens in my yard before--I believe they're supposed to be pretty small. Just the cap portion of the one up there that's sliced in half is at least 6" long.
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