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netphax
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Registered: 04/20/05
Posts: 10
Loc: Bothell, WA
Last seen: 17 years, 8 months
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Intro + ID help...my frist PNW hunt!
#4083083 - 04/21/05 09:39 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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First things first I?d like to introduce myself. I?m a novice mushroom hunter but very eager to learn more. I stumbled across this site while doing some research and found it to be an amazing tool. I?m a Pacific North-Westerner and from reading through some of the previous posts it appears there is quite an amazing community here.
Well, now to the meat of the post. I just ordered Mushroom John?s book, but after the spring sighting posts, recent rains we had, and the wonderful sunshine I figured I?d take a stroll around some of my local parks and see what I could find. While most everywhere was getting a bit too dried out to be fruitful, I did run across a few decaying, yet interesting specimens. While I don?t think that any of them are active, but I figured I?d post them for fun and future reference of myself and others. The first two are just random pictures; the others are the ones I?m more curious about. I hope that my pictures and short location descriptions are enough for a proper identification (I?m attempting to follow the rules but admit I?m a n00b and these specimens are not optimal ).
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Speciman A:
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Large pic Location: Bothell area parks, Snohomish/King County, WA, USA Found growing on a pile of woodchips Spore print below on left...
Speciman B:
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Location: Bothell area parks, Snohomish/King County, WA, USA Found growing at the edge of a recently mowed field Spore print below?
Spore Print: Left = A Right = B
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Speciman C: Could these be dried out liberty caps (possibly blown off their stem to disperse spores)?
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Location: Bothell area parks, Snohomish/King County, WA, USA Found scattered along a set car tracks that went though the middle of a dry field
Thanks for your help, Matt Albertson www.MattAlbertson.com
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ToxicMan
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Re: Intro + ID help...my frist PNW hunt! [Re: netphax]
#4083126 - 04/21/05 09:58 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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Specimen 1 is a Lepiota of some sort. You'd need to get a spore print to start identification.
Specimen 2 is too out of focus to even guess at.
Specimens 3(A) & 4(B) both look like Cortinarius species at first glance. Based on that you should have noted the types of trees growing nearby.
Specimen 5(C) is a relative of the puffballs. If you look at the last photo you can see that there are no gills inside the cap. Instead you have a fairly uniform spore mass, typical of the puffballs.
Happy mushrooming!
-------------------- Happy mushrooming!
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