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jfree

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Mushroom ID: Gymnopilus, jack o'lantern, or...?
#19012746 - 10/22/13 09:31 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Hey all,
I found these mushrooms in Pennsylvania, about an hour outside Philadelphia. They were growing on a dead tree trunk (not sure what type of tree, still very much a beginner-- but please see the attached photos). This past weekend I brought them to Steve Brill, a mushroom and foraging enthusiast, who quickly said he 'believed them to be' jack o'lanterns. I didn't press the issue, but since then much of the information I've seen contradicts this ID. For instance, my mushrooms' cap texture is slightly scaled and velvety-- not exactly smooth; the gills are much darker than jack o'lanterns look to be; the stem is larger, not tapered at base, and somewhat hollow; it's spores-- though I have yet to get a successful print-- seem to be anything but 'pale cream', as I understand jack o'lanterns to be; the odor is fragrant, almost sweet, and the taste bitter- while I've read that the smell and taste of lanterns is 'not distinctive'; and these were found on top of a fallen trunk, not at the base of a tree, and not in a large cluster.
For these reasons I'm really doubting the ID given, and leaning (with hope, but also some evidence) toward a type of gymnopilus: maybe penetrans or sapineus?
Thanks to this forum I'm holding onto the shrooms, as well as a positive outlook, for now. (I might've thrown/foolhardily eaten em otherwise!) So any assistance or feedback would be most appreciated!
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Blue-FunGuy
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Re: Mushroom ID: Gymnopilus, jack o'lantern, or...? [Re: jfree]
#19012756 - 10/22/13 09:33 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Gymnopilus,no doubt. Maybe G.luteus.
Edited by Blue-FunGuy (10/22/13 09:40 AM)
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Alan Rockefeller
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Re: Mushroom ID: Gymnopilus, jack o'lantern, or...? [Re: Blue-FunGuy]
#19012777 - 10/22/13 09:41 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yes, Gymnopilus luteus due to the enlarged stem bases and large overall size.
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Eddeee
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Re: Mushroom ID: Gymnopilus, jack o'lantern, or...? [Re: Blue-FunGuy]
#19012781 - 10/22/13 09:42 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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They look like Gyms to me. I can see the remmants of an annulus. and growth habitat. Take a spore print. It shuld be ORange. Jackes have a whitsh to cream colored spore print.
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jfree

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Re: Mushroom ID: Gymnopilus, jack o'lantern, or...? [Re: Eddeee]
#19012831 - 10/22/13 09:56 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Thanks everyone. I'll start brewing some tea now!
Hey Eddeee, do you have any recommendations for taking spore prints? I've tried placing caps face down on paper, then covering w a glass or plastic container overnight-- but haven't managed to get any good prints yet.
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Alan Rockefeller
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Re: Mushroom ID: Gymnopilus, jack o'lantern, or...? [Re: jfree] 1
#19012855 - 10/22/13 10:02 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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http://mushroomexpert.com/spore_print.htm
I recommend tinfoil because there are no mushrooms with silver colored spores, and it is easier to get the spores off of it later when you want to use them for microscopy or cultivation.
Cover them overnight so the caps don't dry out and the mold spores in the air do not settle near your prints. In the morning remove the caps and let them dry for 5 minutes or so, but not any longer than necessary. Put the prints into a brand new plastic bag, and label the bag with the shroomery thread number or mushroomobserver.org observation number so later you know which prints go with which pics.
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Blue-FunGuy
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Re: Mushroom ID: Gymnopilus, jack o'lantern, or...? [Re: jfree]
#19012871 - 10/22/13 10:06 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
jfree said: Thanks everyone. I'll start brewing some tea now.
You will need more than that for good effects.
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