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lIXII
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Riparian mushrooms in the rain
#5619425 - 05/11/06 11:04 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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I found these mushroom along a stream, on grassy banks with Viola sp., cleavers, and multiflora rose under a very broken canopy of sycamore, tulip 'poplar' and red maple.
Rhizomorphic mycelium (visible as a thick (strong) strand on first pictures) heavily colonizing woody debris buried in loamy / sandy soil.
* found in the foothills of Maryland
All but the one in hand were heavily waterlogged.
Caps: .5 - 2 inches diameter, tough, with gelatinous pellicle, coloration where deteriorated due to dark spores showing through. Retaining some umbo, to plane. striated margins.
Stems: thick and tough, white to reddish brown at base, with semi-persistent veil remnants. Slightly bulbous at base
Spore color: Dark purple-brown, gills were typically devoid of spores to some degree at extremity of diameter, visible as white ring in gill pictures. Gills also very dark purple brown, gills appearing adnexed (they were all very old specimens)
Smell: Very strong, somewhere between fresh cubensis and cheap cologne, overwhelming in the waterlogged ones
Due to lack of blue bruising, (although could be due to waterlogging), I am assuming an inactive Psilocybe or Stropharia, but I have not been able to narrow to species.
Thanks!




Edited by lIXII (05/11/06 11:14 PM)
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xmush
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Re: Riparian mushrooms in the rain [Re: lIXII]
#5619658 - 05/11/06 11:49 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Awesome post man. Great description and pics. If it weren't for the pellicle I'd throw Psathyrella in the mix too.
Edited by xmush (05/12/06 09:50 AM)
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shroominDole
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Re: Riparian mushrooms in the rain [Re: xmush]
#5620507 - 05/12/06 09:35 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Stropharia riparia.......or at least one of the extremely difficult to distinguish similiar shrooms in that group......edibility unknown and several poisonous Stropharias around.......these Stropharias can really fool ya when seeking certain mushrooms.......oh ya 'NOT ACTIVE'
Ironic you headed your post as riparian......the Violas, Rosa, or others blooming by now ?
-------------------- Worlds Largest 'Liberty Cap' (Cali Libs Confirmed !) ' Comments On Hallucinogenic Agarics And The Hallucinations Of Those Who Study Them ' Alexander H. Smith Mycologia vol.69 1977
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lIXII
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Re: Riparian mushrooms in the rain [Re: lIXII]
#5621101 - 05/12/06 12:22 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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The stalk and cap are also very tough, unlike Psathyrella.
I am thinking Stropharia hardii due to fruiting season and location (I read that riparia is a bit of a misnomer), although as you said, this is a confusing cluster to ID.
Most of the wild violets have passed bloom, although I did see a few of the rare and beautiful yellow and white morph of the round leaved yellow violet (Viola rotundifolia var...) with basal leaves, still in bloom. Also tons of jack-in-the-pulpit and mayapple, whose blossoms fill the air with a pungeant sweet / spicy apple aroma.
Also saw dutchmans breeches and bloodroot here, along with the orchid, downy rattlesnake plantain (earlier in the spring).
Finally, perhaps my most beloved native woodland herb, wild ginger (Asarum canadense) still in bloom, which I must agree with the beetles and ants that are attracted to the foetid odor, are amongst the prettiest in the forest!
Ginger- actually photographed in my garden patch...

Dutchman's Breeches

And thanks for the help guys!
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