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sorting out fall finds
    #5342916 - 02/26/06 08:47 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Hi everyone,

Today is a happy day for me because I have spent many, many hours going through my fall pictures and I finally reached a point where pointless guessing is all that remains.

I never approached my task like a mycologist. Though my pictures were pretty detailed, I often did not take a spore print, and I had to judge the habitat by the general area where the pictures were taken. I went with the approach where I assumed that I had a fairly common mushroom in front of me that would probably show up in one of my three main guides (not a valid assumption, of course) and took it from there. With some genii like Marasmius or Psathyrella or my boletes I have certainly gotten some wrong. Having said that, using multiple guides along with the internet narrowed things down a lot. You can use multiple photos to compare features that don't show up in every picture, and allow for color changes due to lighting or maturity of the specimen. MushroomExpert is also extremely useful. I also looked up the homepages of some Japanese amateurs who have posted large collections of finds, and those help a lot with things like boletes. Plus a lot of mushrooms are unmistakable--for example, the Psathyrellas are hard to identify in general, but velutina is not.

This was my haul:
Agaricus praeclaresquamosus
Agrocybe arvalis, Agrocybe cylindracea
Amanita abrupta, Amanita alboflavescens, Amanita ceciliae, Amanita citrine, Amanita longistriata, Amanita pantherina, Amanita rubescens, Amanita psuedoporphyria, Amanita vaginata , Amanita virgineodes, Amanita virosa
Auricularia auricular, Auricularia polytricha
Boletellus emodensis, Boletellus obscurecoccineus
Boletus mirabilis, Boletus obscureumbrinus, Boletus pulverulentus, Boletus reticulatus, Boletus subvelutipes
Calvatia craniiformis
Chlorophyllum molybdites
Collybia confluens
Coltricia cinnamomea
Coprinus atramentarius, Coprinus disseminatus, Coprinus lagopus, Coprinus comatus
Coriolus trametes
Coriolus versicolor
Cyathus stercoreus
Entoloma murraii, Entoloma staurosporum
Galiella celebica
Ganoderma lucidum, Ganoderma tsugae
Gerronema fibula
Gymnopilus liquiritiae, Gymnopilus aeruginosus, Gymnopilus penetrans
Gyroporous punctatus
Hydnum repandum
Hygrocybe conica, Hygrocybe cuspidata
Hypholoma fasciculare
Inocybe napipes, Inocybe asterospora
Laccaria bicolor, Laccaria vinaceoavellanea
Lactarius chrysorrheus, Lactarius hygrophoroides
Lactarius subzonarius, Lactarius volemus
Leccinum extremiorientale
Lentinus edodes
Leucoagaricus rubrotinctus, Leucocoprinus fragilissimus
Leocoprinus bresadolae
Lycoperdon perlatum
Marasmiellus candidus
Marasmius maximus, Marasmius pulcherripes, Marasmius oreades
Mycena galericulata, Mycena polygramma
Mycena pura
Naematoloma squamosum
Omphalina epichysium
Oudemansiella pudens
Panaeolus fimicola, Panaeolus subbalteatus
Phallus impudicus, Phallus rugolosus
Phellinus robustus
Pholiota adiposa
Piptoporous betulinus
Pleurocybella porrigens
Pleurotus ostreatus
Pluteus atricapillus, Pluteus leoninus
Polyporellus badius
Polyporis alveolaris
Psathyrella condolleana, Psathyrella gracilis, Psathyrella multissima, Psathyrella velutina
Pycnoporous coccineus
Russula foetens, Russula virescens
Stobilurus oshimae
Stropharia aeruginosa, Stropharia semiglobata, Stropharia rugosoannulata
Thelophora terrestris
Trichaptum biforme
Trichoglossum hirsutum
Tricholomopsis rutilans
Xanthoconium affine
Xercomus subtomentosus
Xeromphalina campanella

While all these photos have gotten me familiar with overall families, next season I am going to write things down--I don't think you can improve past a certain point unless you keep careful records. This season I got interested in a Japanese guy called Minakata Kumagusu. He went over to the states and then England at the end of the 19th Century, and started collecting mushrooms when he was over there. (He also got kicked out of every college he attended for drinking and fighting.) I went to the museum dedicated to him recently and was fascinated to find this specimen that he had id-ed 100 years ago. (I wasn't supposed to take a photo, but here was a Japanese psilocybe right in front of my eyes!)

He thinks that he has cyanscens, but he obviously has Psilocybe argentipes. http://tulostoma.3.pro.tok2.com/ajiwai_kinoko/hikagesibiretake.htm
He did it all in English....Anyway his detailed notes have inspired me--this is going to be my last season of the shotgun approach.


From April I will be actually working for a living so I will not be posting. For those that patiently helped with all my ids, it was appreciated.


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Re: sorting out fall finds [Re: wallace]
    #5343467 - 02/26/06 10:41 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Great list!

All of this sound like you're aiming at a career in mycology. Certainly you seem to have the interest and the knack.

Happy mushrooming!


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Re: sorting out fall finds [Re: wallace]
    #5343564 - 02/26/06 10:59 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Nice work,
A lot of times just being able to determine a genus is as far as you can go without extensive resources, lab equipment, and expensive microscopes. Knowing a genus is very useful. In a lot of cases knowing what exact species that you have is unnecessary and will require a lot of time/effort which you may not want to invest unless you are purely into the exact science of things.
I find that I am interested in the exacts of things.. well at least I try to go as far as I can, even when knowing ahead of time that a specimen is not going to be of edible value.


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