Monday, February 20th, 2012
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11:37 pm
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Sunday, March 18th, 2012
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10:59 pm
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Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
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10:25 pm
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Monday, January 2nd, 2012
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12:18 pm - Mushroom thingies
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shimmerngspirit
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I completely forgot to post this and then found the picture. This fall I was out walking and came across these lovely mushrooms thingies. Aren't they adorable?
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Friday, November 11th, 2011
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10:46 am - Found this morning during a walk...
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Sunday, November 6th, 2011
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8:08 pm - Myco-update...
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alexpgp
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Most of my activity with the camera yesterday was in video mode, so I could capture what people were saying about the mushrooms that were being found. After about four or five shots, the video mode inadvertently got switched from a reasonably clear 640x480 size to a murky 160x120 size.
I got something of an education in gilled mushrooms, although one of the participants found a rather large specimen of something that resembled an aspen bolete, and we encountered a number of old Suillus specimens.
It was a day for mostly Cortinarius and Tricholoma, although I did run across some other specimens as we walked through the Edgewood Oak Plains Preserve, including a large white mushroom that was identified to me as an Amanita polypyramis (and which I did an inadequate job of photographing), and a small, dainty white mushroom that my gut immediately told me was a member of the Amanita family. The fellow I exchanged emails with about the outing (and whose knowledge of mushrooms appeared to be encyclopedic) identified the following specimen as an Amanita citrina
At the beginning of the outing, it was all I could do to find anything, which explains photos such as the following:
Eventually, I started to see what others were seeing. I even found a rather impressive white mushroom that makes me think "matsutake." There were Cortinarius mushrooms aplenty, including this specimen of what was identified as Cortinarius sanguineus:
This kind of outing is a first for me, and I enjoyed it thoroughly.
Cheers...
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Monday, October 31st, 2011
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6:57 pm - Left after the snow...
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Monday, October 17th, 2011
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11:56 am - strange mushroom
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Sunday, October 16th, 2011
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11:16 am - Fall Mushrooms
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Saturday, October 1st, 2011
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7:56 pm
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
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12:27 pm - Russian fungus hunters ...
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
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5:03 pm - The things I see out walking my dog.
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shimmerngspirit
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I am new to this community. This late summer I noticed a lot of new mushrooms growing that I'd never seen before. I maybe think either this was an unusual year, or my eyes were fresh to this.
I'm trying to figure out what they are, so I am interested in good resources for identification:)
First... Based on my investigations I think that this is a shelf mushroom that the Illinois mushroom folks called polyporus squamosus?
How would I know? Am I insane? Help thanks and have a lovely day!!!!!
I live in the South Suburbs of Chicago:)
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Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
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6:41 pm - A day spent mushrooming beats a day spent fishing...
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alexpgp
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Mushroom season around these parts typically occurs in the second half of August, although one of the results of last year's copious daily rains was an early season that kicked off about a month early. I hadn't been around earlier in the summer, but I was reliably informed that rainfall this year was not anything to make a big deal about, and mushrooming treks made earlier this season were initially successful, but subsequently disappointing. Yesterday, after noticing an eruption of mushrooms along the side of the road across from the City Market shopping center, I decided—armed only with my trusty Shiloh, a couple of plastic bags, and a pair of scissors as a cutting implement—to travel down a road I call "Shaggy Way" that takes me via a rather circuitous route from "downtown Pagosa Springs" toward home.
It's the kind of road where, from time to time, you can spy the Rockies through the trees.
The photo above was taken scant yards from a stump that has developed a local ecosystem of sorts, comprising moss, lichen, some gray basidiomycete fungus (I think), and a lone example of what might possibly be a Velvet Foot (but I'm guessing).
On the one hand, I like the shot, which I've cropped somewhat, but on the other, the cropping turned out sort of freaky, because the result almost looks like a landscape from the air, where the moss and gray strands look like a forest of some kind, the cracks in the wood look like cliffs, and only the giant orange mushroom is the lone anomaly.
Fantasy aside, I've learned enough, over the years, to reliably recognize some basic mushrooms—chanterelles, king boletes, hawk's wings, aspen boletes, shaggy manes, and even the occasional clutch of oyster mushrooms. My knowledge of other fruiting fungi, especially of gilled mushrooms, is rather sparse.
My spore printing skills are not too shabby, but even with that information, it's pretty clear that I need to make better notes about the environment surrounding the specimens that I find. That, and ask others for pointers so as to have a good point of departure for learning more about specific mushrooms.
Among the specimens I found yesterday were the following:
1. A coral mushroom (Ramaria?). There are a lot of these in the woods.
2. Some sort of Clitocybe?
 
3. Possibly a Gymnopilus of some kind? These are quite common.
 
4. Is this a honey mushroom?
Cheers...
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Thursday, September 15th, 2011
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11:17 pm
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Saturday, September 10th, 2011
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1:58 am - would like assistance with id - new at this
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Saturday, August 20th, 2011
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3:26 pm - Mushrooms from Alaska and Arizona
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Friday, August 19th, 2011
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2:31 pm - Huge Agaricus
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mad_artist
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First photo taken with my Nikon D100 and macro lens touched up with Photoshop. Second taken with my iphone 4. The annulus fell off it in transit. It is in my bag. I accidently split the stipe, when checking to see if it was stringy or gave off milk. Spore imprint seems to be a reddy-brown color. I don’t think its edible. I wonder what type of Agaricus it is.
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Thursday, August 18th, 2011
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9:40 am - Rusty Mushrooms
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9:26 am - Rusty mushrooms
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mad_artist
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I found this patch near a roadside on my back from applying for a job Does anybody have an idea of what they are ? I thought they might be Russula vesca. Photo taken with iphone 4. Please no nasty comments. I do have a macrolens. So if I decide to go mushroom photo –shooting I will take my camera gear with me. 
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Monday, August 15th, 2011
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9:03 pm - Podaxis?
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vuzh
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Is there anyone here familiar with Podaxales?
I have a mushroom that has fruited in my yard every year that I've lived here (about six years).
Here in Northern Colorado we have a dry climate, and this mushroom only fruits after heavy rains during the Summer. We've had some of those recently so I've got a sample.
I've tried to fully key it out with Arora's MD keys, and I always arrive at Podaxis pistillaris, which is the only species he describes.
My specimen differs from P. pistillaris in that it does not have a scaly layer, and the stalk is always stumpy like the one pictured. The cap is never oval, it's always sorta pear-shaped like the pictured specimen.
I'm confident that I've got the family correct, as it's very much like a stalked puffball, but the stalk extends all the way through the spore mass, and the spores seem to never be discharged through bellowing action like a puffball.
The specimen pictured is about 2 1/4" tall from the bottom of the stem to the top of the cap. I've seen specimens up to 3 1/2".
Arora notes that P. pistillaris has been found with Agaricus bitorquis, well, I do have A. bitorquis (or a very, very similar Agaricus) fruiting in my yard. C. comatus grows within 100 feet of our yard, and is also mentioned as a possible "ally".
This mature specimen smells like hay... or more specifically it smells like horse-poop, a bit barn-yard-ish.
Photos:
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