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Drewwyann
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Registered: 10/30/06
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ID request
#7636848 - 11/14/07 06:52 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Not sure what they are...
Habitat: in a grassy lawn, growing near some needly bushes. (like pine-tree needles, on a bush. You know the kind.)
Conditions: rain for the past few days. Moderate tempuratures, in the 60s during the day, going down to the 40s during the night.
Location: Eastern Pennsylvania
Pileus/Cap: 2-6 cm wide. Tan-coloration. Viscid.
Stipe/Stem: white. about 1-2cm thick. Small bulb/bulge at the bottom of the stipe. Some were perfectly straight, others were curved like a quarter-pipe. Resembles that of a russula, though the stipe on these mushrooms were much meatier and harder to take out of the ground with the twist and pull method.
Gills: Attached to stipe. Light tan-coloration. Same as the Pileus essentially.
Spore print: Rusty. Red/Brown.
Heres the best picture I could get. For some reason the camera I am using doesn't capture light the best it could. It's an awesome camera too. Not mine. Its a professional camera. If anyone has any tips for increasing light in my pictures feel free to speak up. The one I am using (again, that isn't mine) is a Nikon. It's awesome.

And heres all the mushrooms I found while just walking around stacked on top of my favorite gnome. Bubba!  

The most abundant mushrooms in the bubba picture are also the one's that I am trying to get an ID of. So if that helps, then it helps. ie, the one that is to the left of his face, on his weight.
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Edited by Drewwyann (11/14/07 06:54 PM)
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landsnorkler


Registered: 09/26/06
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Loc: Montana
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Looks like a cortinarius of some kind.
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Alan Rockefeller
Mycologist


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Looks like a Hebeloma, maybe this one.
I have Hesler's unpublished monograph on Hebeloma, but I am going to return it without copying it in the next couple days unless someone stops me.
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Drewwyann
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It seems to fit the descrition. Bare stipe, the gills, the print, and the mycorrhizal relationship it had with the bushes.
The picture looks off to me though. When I typed cortinarius into google, the very first picture looked a lot like what I have. It doesn't say what species it is, just the genus.
Edit: actually, i just looked up more pictures of the hebeloma, and this picture looks a whole lot more like what I found. I'm pretty convinced you're right on the ID. http://www.anbg.gov.au/fungi/images/0241.jpg Its even got the spore color on the stems. 
And how did you get that hold of an unpublished monograph?;)
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Edited by Drewwyann (11/14/07 07:14 PM)
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landsnorkler


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The only problem with cortinarius is the fact that I can't see a cortina in any of your pictures. Do any of the specimans have slight remnants of a cobwebby veil?
Could be hebeloma though.
Edited by landsnorkler (11/14/07 07:17 PM)
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Drewwyann
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No remnant of any veil whatsoever.
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ToxicMan
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One thing you can check that will confirm Hebeloma instead of Cortinarius is that lots of Hebeloma species smell like radishes.
The two genera intergrade somewhat, in that there are also lots of species of Hebeloma that have a cortina, just like Cortinarius. It's not always easy to tell which of those genera you have.
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Alan Rockefeller
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Re: ID request [Re: ToxicMan]
#7637804 - 11/14/07 11:28 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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> And how did you get that hold of an unpublished monograph?;)
Someone from the mycological society let me borrow it. They are pretty uninteresting though, I think that I would be doing a disservice to myself by copying it and keeping it. Then I might actually use it, robbing me of several hours of useful life.
I usually ID hebeloma's by smell, they smell bad, kind of sharp like radishes.
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