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hidalgo
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ID help please
#21129655 - 01/16/15 03:02 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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Does anyone know what species of mushroom these are?
A few days ago I found some mushrooms growing on my property in New Jersey.
They are apparently wood-loving, as they are growing in coarse, porous dirt in which wood had decomposed until there is nothing left of the wood except some fibers. They are surrounded by lawn grass, and not near any trees.
They have no stipes (stems), instead growing in a dense mass of somewhat overlapping caps. The caps are about 4 inches in diameter, and are not completely round, as one side of each of them is growing out of the common mass they all share. The rim of the caps do not turn downwards, and are not wavy. The caps are about one half to three quarters of an inch in thickness, including the gills.
As I indicated, they have gills, not pores on the underside of the caps. The gills are large, open and there is no trace of remaining spores, so I can't attest to their color. The gills appear to be fully attached.
The caps are a uniform beige on top, and the gills are a substantially lighter shade of beige.
They have a weak smell, to my mind neither pleasant nor unpleasant, which I can't describe but that does not resemble the scent of a button mushroom.
There was also a mass of smaller mushrooms that appeared to be the same species, but whose caps are only perhaps one and a half to one and three quarters of an inch in diameter.
The thing that is truly remarkable about these mushrooms is that they appeared 4 or 5 days ago. Since they appeared it was below freezing most of the time, and below freezing every night. I found this very odd, as I understand that mushrooms are 90 to 92% water, and that's why I'm curious about them.
I think I successfully uploaded some jpg's of these mushrooms.
Any information that anyone can give me would be greatly appreciated.
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Re: ID help please [Re: hidalgo]
#21129678 - 01/16/15 03:07 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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Pics?
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Re: ID help please [Re: hidalgo]
#21129956 - 01/16/15 04:08 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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Did you check if there was any buried wood the could grow from?
In any case: http://www.shroomery.org/5286/How-do-I-put-pictures-in-my-post
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Re: ID help please [Re: hidalgo]
#21129998 - 01/16/15 04:16 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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photos will prob be necessary. I'm also in nj right now. if they are on the ground and brownish, they could be Tubaria species. I collected some today in the freezing cold myself. 4 inch diameter seems too large though?
perhaps compare them with that and try to post pictures when you get a chance.
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Blue-FunGuy
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Possible Pleurotus?
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hidalgo
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Re: ID help please [Re: hidalgo]
#21131406 - 01/16/15 09:57 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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yeah looks like Pleurotus or something fairly similar to me but I'm not entirely sure to be honest.
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hidalgo
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Here are a few more observations:
• The gills attach directly to the common matrix that all the mushrooms are growing from, being neither decurrent nor free, and run all the way to the rim of the cap.
• No bruising was observed, neither on the gills nor on the tops of the caps, but the mushrooms were already quite dehydrated by the time I damaged a couple of the mushrooms to test for this, so perhaps their ability to bruise may have been inhibited by this.
• There is a deep "groove" between any two adjacent gills.
• The gills do not appear to fork at all.
• The substrate that the mushrooms are growing in is defintely dirt (albeit derived, at least in part, from rotted wood). No solid wood remains buried beneath the surface.
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Re: ID help please [Re: hidalgo]
#21134825 - 01/17/15 05:42 PM (9 years, 3 months ago) |
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Pleurotus ostrearus, I would say. Definitely Oysters.
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