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drama
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First Sac Fungi Found | Autumn in Nova Scotia | Largest Dung Pile Ever!
#9125354 - 10/24/08 06:56 AM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Morning Guys, I am finaly getting around to classifying some---it takes a lot of time---of the mushrooms I imaged the other day while out in the woods. The weather called for solid overcast for the day, but as you can clearly tell, they were wrong. That was a good pun, well, perhaps not. As many folks along the North East coast of North America know: the best time of year here is the fall. Fall exhibits a vast cornucopia of leaves spotting varying colors, crisp air with low humidity, and no flies = perfect. So I'll open with a few scenic pictures from the foray, and present a few mushrooms with an attempt at classification (perhaps Genus only in some instances). Unfortunately, despite surveying another two pastures containing horses / cows, psi. sem. continues to elude me. Echoing Louis Armstrong, "I see skies are blue (but no bluing on my shrooms), dung everywhere, but no psi. sem., and I think to myself ... what a terrible world." Ok, that was bad, perhaps I need to get some breakfest ... anyways ...:
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In this image of the moon, naturally the tree comes out of focus, one can actually observe the Mare Humorum and the Oceanus Procellarum. God have mercy on my soul if I got the astronomy wrong ;-)
4 - Neolecta Irregularis

5 - Lycoperdon (Nigrescens:)

6 - look-alike Chanterelle

8 - Hygrophorus

These mushrooms were EVERYWHERE. Here is a closeup.
9 - Hygrophorus

10 - Hygrophorus

How did this get up in the tree? A mystery granted it is a good 8 feet. The leading theory is that perhaps God came down for a picking and dropped a few on his way up.
10 - Hygrophorus

Right beside the others, different species.
11 - Horses

12 - Cow Dung
 No psi. sem. :-(
13 - Horse Dung
 No psi. sem. :-( But there were some of these ...
13 - Shrooms Near Horse Dung

14 - The Largest Horse Dung Pile Ever!
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landsnorkler


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Re: First Sac Fungi Found | Autumn in Nova Scotia | Largest Dung Pile Ever! [Re: drama]
#9125398 - 10/24/08 07:23 AM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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wow, beautiful pictures! Squirrels tend to bring mushroom up into trees like that. God does sometimes though too.
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Alan Rockefeller
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Re: First Sac Fungi Found | Autumn in Nova Scotia | Largest Dung Pile Ever! [Re: landsnorkler]
#9126454 - 10/24/08 11:47 AM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Great pictures. The Hygrophorus is a Russula.
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drama
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Re: First Sac Fungi Found | Autumn in Nova Scotia | Largest Dung Pile Ever! [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
#9126523 - 10/24/08 11:59 AM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Hey Guys, cheers. My photography needs a lot of work, a new Canon rebel would be welcome too.
Landsnorkler, I never considered the squirrels. Do they eat the mushrooms?
Alan, darn, I could not decide whether it was indeed a Hygrophorus or a Russula, but I decided to go with the former granted the waxy cap and the nipple like centroid on the cap. Could you elaborate on the characteristics that led you to designate it a Russula? What species would you suggest 9 & 10 are?
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Re: First Sac Fungi Found | Autumn in Nova Scotia | Largest Dung Pile Ever! [Re: drama]
#9126654 - 10/24/08 12:21 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Are there any red Hygrophorus species that look like that? I am not aware of any.
Its hard to say for sure what it is from here, I can't see the stem or underside of the cap.
If you pick one up it will be obvious, Hygrophorus is very slimy and Russula has a stem that snaps like chalk.
I would call those Russula cf. emetica.
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Re: First Sac Fungi Found | Autumn in Nova Scotia | Largest Dung Pile Ever! [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
#9127382 - 10/24/08 02:56 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Hi Alain, ok, very interesting. Perhaps this may help clarify things, I actually have two more images of the putative mushroom, one giving a good glimpse of its underside thanks to the squirrel (!)

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Re: First Sac Fungi Found | Autumn in Nova Scotia | Largest Dung Pile Ever! [Re: drama]
#9127434 - 10/24/08 03:07 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Ok thanks for those pics, that is a Hygrophorus.
Probably this one
http://www.mushroomexpert.com/hygrophorus_purpurascens.html
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drama
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Re: First Sac Fungi Found | Autumn in Nova Scotia | Largest Dung Pile Ever! [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
#9130676 - 10/25/08 06:24 AM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Morning Alan, ok great, thanks.
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