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Bruising black? Help with ID please.
    #19070462 - 11/01/13 03:31 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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.

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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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Re: Bruising black? Help with ID please. [Re: johnmadden]
    #19070466 - 11/01/13 03:33 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

No bruising, those are an Armillaria sp. they can be kinda a black color sometimes.


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Re: Bruising black? Help with ID please. [Re: maynardjameskeenan]
    #19070485 - 11/01/13 03:37 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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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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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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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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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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Re: Bruising black? Help with ID please. [Re: johnmadden]
    #19071213 - 11/01/13 05:45 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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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