Hi Gang, One last report on the All California Club Foray, at least from this reporter. What a great weekend. Despite a number of star-crossed events early on ...
Sorry guys, I had a slip of the ole earth tongue. The "moth ball fungus" seeking an ID is clitocyboid (like a clitocybe) not corticioid (like a cort). I am now...
...and crawling out of the room like a banana slug. corticioid refers to crust fungi, not corts. brain, where art thou? (thanks to Else Vellinga, my ever ...
Without getting into the gory details of discussing different concepts of what a "species" is (although that might be a good topic for a get-together...
S. Trudell
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Feb 1, 2007 9:53 pm
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Ah, what a wonderful pool of minds we have at our fingertips. I contacted Dennis to ask if he was interested in a few of our ACCF collections for the ...
Good work, my friends. Final names vetted by Else Vellinga. Debbie Viess ... All California Club Foray 2007, Mendocino County, January 26-28 Agaricus hondensis...
A woman's work is never done. Got a call from John Brown this eve. He has added Inocybe calamistrata and two unnamed Inocybe sp. to our list. You go, John. ...
We just returned from Mexico where I was asked a question to which I have no answer, but am suitably intrigued by the question itself. Here goes - is there any...
I fully agree with what Steve is saying and my personal views on the matter are rather radical. However, it is also important to recognize the conventions...
Dear Steve, thank you very much for the interesting message. This was a very good experience for me. Up to now I used to colelct specimes that were like a...
The fungi grown by the leaf cutter ants (and other ants in that same group called Attini) are Leucoagaricus/Leucocoprinus species. Species here of those genera...
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Feb 2, 2007 7:31 pm
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Hello Fellow Seekers of Fungal Illumination: A little over a week ago, Peter Werner initiated a dialogue on the SOMA list about candy cap fragrance, which then...
This is kind of related to that. I'm in Indiana and I occasionally observe Amanita muscaria fruiting from dead pine roots. Sometimes the mushrooms are in x-mas...
I would LOVE to see a picture of that. It reminds me of Terry Henkel's Guyana amanitas that fruit way up on the arborial roots of living trees (not the same...
I thought that landscape morels might come from the sclerotia in the fill dirt the landscapers use, rather than the chips, because I have seen them grow...
Debbie, I didn't have my camera with me, but I have seen similar things in this woods for a few years. I will make sure to bring my camera next fall. mark ...
Add Hydnum umbillicatum (the bellybutton hedgehog) to our list of MR mushrooms growing on wood; I saw several this past weekend in Jackson State Forest, and ...
Here are a few of the Corts (most common) that I've been working on recently. A number of collections from last Fall still require more work/information. I...
For what its worth, here is a picture that I took this Summer in Bulgaria -- Chlorophillum rachodes growing on an ant-hive. I've nio idea if that's common or...
It is very common in the Pacific Northwest with Chlorophyllum brunneum ... From: BayAreaMushrooms@yahoogroups.com on behalf of Dimitar Bojantchev Sent: Sat...
... Was the trunk of the tree in contact with the ground? If so, there should be no reason the mycelium (or roots of live trees) couldn't have extended from...
S. Trudell
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Feb 3, 2007 8:42 pm
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The species commonly (and incorrectly) called "Amanita fulva" in the northeastern US and eastern Canada is occasionally found on very rotten tree stumps. It...
Dr. Rodham E. Tulloss
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Feb 4, 2007 4:07 am
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Some species, such as those in the genus Tomentella, form their fruitbodies on wood (they form just a nice thready film or crust), but they are definitely...
Else C. Vellinga
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Feb 4, 2007 7:01 am
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I just uploaded a special edition of Fungi-zette for the Fort Bragg weekend forays that Cecelia and I attended last weekend, at...
I just got this back from Dr. Michael Kuo. Not too long ago he put out a book titled "Morels". Michael published some of my pictures in his book too. I'm not...
i went out a couple days ago in the east bay to check my spots. i didn't expect to find much - it just seems so slow. however, it had recently rained a little...
You might try traveling a bit south for the Chanterelles. I usually found the Golden Chanterelles in the mountains behind Santa Barbara between January and...
Hi Gregg, I would advise a little bit of patience. The forecast for rain this week looks GOOD! Maybe a little too good, to actually be out in the field this...