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johnmadden
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Bruising black? Help with ID please.
#19070462 - 11/01/13 03:31 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Habitat:
Found in the grass of a pasture with trees nearby in a suburban Seattle area. The area is frequented by birds, squirrels, moles, and deer.
Gills: Extremely light brown, almost white, attatched, gills. Very close together.
Stem: Length 3-5 inches, diameter 1/8-1/4 inch, color very light brown, fibrous (wood-like) on the outside, fleshy on the inside. Solid, and somewhat dense.
Cap: Diameter 2-4 inches, color medium brown, darker at the center and edges. texture mostly smooth with short, tiny strands that almost look like hair. These hair-like formations are regular, but grouped, with space in between groups. Caps are spherical, Some slightly concave, others slightly convex
Spore print color: I don't have a spore testing kit, or money to buy one.
Bruising: Both the stem and cap bruise very dark, can't tell if it's black or a very deep blue. It took about ~24 hours for the bruise to become noticeable.
Other information:



Scent is faint, almost sweet-smelling. Pictures taken with cell phone. The black spot on the top-right of the cap is the shadow of the phone. The mushrooms were found very tightly packed together, despite having lots of room to grow. The pictures taken are of a fresh mushroom, the one that's bruised is mostly dry and much smaller, though found in the same patch (they grew very quickly.)
EDIT: is it possible to accurately spore test a mushroom several weeks after picking them? I have a job starting soon and then I'll be able to buy a spore testing kit.
Edited by johnmadden (11/01/13 03:33 PM)
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maynardjameskeenan
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Re: Bruising black? Help with ID please. [Re: johnmadden]
#19070466 - 11/01/13 03:33 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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No bruising, those are an Armillaria sp. they can be kinda a black color sometimes.
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johnmadden
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maynardjameskeenan said: No bruising, those are an Armillaria sp. they can be kinda a black color sometimes.
Wow, thanks for the fast reply. Can you answer my edited question as well?
is it possible to accurately spore test a mushroom several weeks after picking them? I have a job starting soon and then I'll be able to buy a spore testing kit.
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RiverDweller1



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Re: Bruising black? Help with ID please. [Re: johnmadden]
#19070496 - 11/01/13 03:39 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
johnmadden said: .... I have a job starting soon and then I'll be able to buy a spore testing kit.
what is a spore testing kit?
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johnmadden
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Re: Bruising black? Help with ID please. [Re: RiverDweller1]
#19070510 - 11/01/13 03:43 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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what is a spore testing kit?
Um... Sorry, I'm new to all this. Whatever you use to test spores. Regardless, can you still get accurate spore identification several weeks after picking the mushroom?
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thiotimoline
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Re: Bruising black? Help with ID please. [Re: johnmadden]
#19071213 - 11/01/13 05:45 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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The spore feature most commonly used in identification is just the color, which you can determine by letting the mushroom drop spores for a while in a humid environment and then looking at it. So the equipment is a jar or cup to put over the cap and maintain humidity and a piece of paper or foil for it to deposit the spores on.
Spore shape cannot be seen without a microscope, but most of us here do without.
To determine whether the spores are amyloid or not requires Melzer's reagent, or another iodine-based reagent, but this is inconvenient to get and we mostly do without it as well.
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