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Beautiful (and delicious) looking mushrooms
    #6125848 - 10/02/06 07:52 PM (17 years, 4 months ago)

Hey all, I've been interested in mycology for a few months and have been reading all kinds of cool stuff about mushrooms here on the shroomery - this place is great!

Hiking today I happened upon these beautiful little guys and was hoping that you guys could help me identify them;

First, the pics haha

Here's one of a group of the beauties with a cigarette box for scale.


Underside of cap with penny for scale


Cross section, appx. 2" long by 1/2" at the cap and 1/4" at stem


Here's one of the largest guy I picked with cigarette box.

Now the info:
Habitat: Mixed deciduous/coniferous forest in Central NC; found em in decomposing leaf matter in an almost exclusively hardwood area of the forest near several small, long-dead looking stumps

Gills: White (similar in color to the flesh), attached to stem, slightly wavy-looking like wet paper that dried in the sun

Caps: rounded, slightly conical; light brown to light brown/tan/golden (delicious looking!); underside of caps are connected to the stem by a white piece that is the same color as the stem in the younger ones, the older ones seem to be disconnecting from the stem on the underside. Some of the smaller ones seems to have tiny, darker brown bumps on the cap surface.

Stems: Stems are mostly white and fiberous beginning to take on a brown hue as they dry. They are solid and seems to be of the smae fleshy consitancey as the flesh of the cap.

Sorry, guys, I couldn't seem to get a spore print after nearly five hours of the cap (covered with a cup) sitting on white paper. Could the spores be white? or already dropped?

Scent/Bruising/Misc.: Scent is very faint (difficult to detect even) but is slightly sweet and mushroomy like white mushrooms on emight find at the grocery store. I didn't notice any bruising, really....although they did begin to darken towards a darker brownish color. Some grew in bunches (as in the first picture) some by themselves (as in the last picture). Some bunches did have what looked to be aborts on them - they were a much darker brown in the cap though the stem was the same.

Hopefully the rest of my mycology career can be as interesting as this - these dudes are neat!

Thanks!


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Re: Beautiful (and delicious) looking mushrooms [Re: drums4matt]
    #6125882 - 10/02/06 07:57 PM (17 years, 4 months ago)

Nice description and thank you for doing some reading before posting. Welcome to the Shroomery. :biggrin:

They look like honey mushrooms (Armillaria) for the most part.


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Re: Beautiful (and delicious) looking mushrooms [Re: eris]
    #6126191 - 10/02/06 08:40 PM (17 years, 4 months ago)

Everybody's finding honey mushrooms these days. Nice finds :smile:


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Re: Beautiful (and delicious) looking mushrooms [Re: Rebirtha]
    #6126329 - 10/02/06 09:06 PM (17 years, 4 months ago)

Quote:

Evan said:
Everybody's finding honey mushrooms these days. Nice finds :smile:




why so you may ask?
check out this link and find out why.
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Re: Beautiful (and delicious) looking mushrooms [Re: Corporal Kielbasa]
    #6126355 - 10/02/06 09:10 PM (17 years, 4 months ago)

O RLY? That's pretty intersting, thanks for the link :thumbup:


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Re: Beautiful (and delicious) looking mushrooms [Re: Rebirtha]
    #6126373 - 10/02/06 09:14 PM (17 years, 4 months ago)

Nice photos and description!  :thumbup:


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Re: Beautiful (and delicious) looking mushrooms [Re: Feanor]
    #6132377 - 10/04/06 01:10 PM (17 years, 4 months ago)

To the more experiances people here. If the veil hasn't broken away will it drop a spore print at all? If not thats probably why you didn't get a print


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Re: Beautiful (and delicious) looking mushrooms [Re: ranke]
    #6132925 - 10/04/06 03:45 PM (17 years, 4 months ago)

no it wont. you should have left them for a day or two so they could mature.


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Re: Beautiful (and delicious) looking mushrooms [Re: blacksun]
    #6132940 - 10/04/06 03:49 PM (17 years, 4 months ago)

Well, I can't add anything more than good job at your find, description, pictures and post.
That's one hell of a post for your first post.


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Re: Beautiful (and delicious) looking mushrooms [Re: Fraggin]
    #6133527 - 10/04/06 06:51 PM (17 years, 4 months ago)

Honey mushrooms indeed have a white spore print! Use black paper and you will get a nice spore print. Great find!


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Re: Beautiful (and delicious) looking mushrooms [Re: TheJakeyl88]
    #6136345 - 10/05/06 01:13 PM (17 years, 4 months ago)

Hey thanks, everybody, for all the input! I just got home from my second excursion (this time with Audubon's field guide in hand) with some great results, so I may be calling on the collective expertise here again soon haha.

Thanks again.


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