Down here in LA it seems to be a nearly year around mushroom. However, it seems to show up more in the warm weather and is one of the few mushroom around in...
I have been looking through observations in MO to see if there was anything I could recognize by sight. Not much, I must admit.. But when I came across what...
Well, I updated the two observations of mine, which were found under coastal live oak. You'll have to excuse the rough id's mostly for these I used Arora, and...
Oh, another comment about "interesting" observations, you'll have to excuse us here in California, its been a bit of a fashion for many years here to not think...
I would love to do anything I can to encourage people to take better notes. Would it help to have separate fields for various features rather than just a...
... better ... I don't know, really. I absolutely prefer when things are kept simple. The instruction to "notes" already mentions habitat, but let's hear what...
Combining responses to Irene and Nathan. LONG!! -- read at your own risk... ... Yes! And compared to the photo in your link below that shows that this is...
... Then I have to add that the original description and picture is available on the net, in Flora Agaricina Danica (this is a goldmine - if you didn't know...
Dimi - Sorry to get your hopes up on the Bolbitius as it turned out to be just another Conocybe. http://mushroomobserver.org/8107 The COLOR scans of Flora...
Thank you Darvin, according to a well known French mycologist this species is common in our lawns, so I'd be interested to find it although that I doubt the...
Irene, thank you for the great links. Indeed, what is shown in the Danish sources is a species with widely expanded, parasol-like cap at maturity, which is not...
For those already under the spell of genus Cortinarius (and you know who you are!), and for those of us who are just getting on board, check out Irene's recent...
Oh, I see, so now Irene is your favorite! And where does that leave me? Reduced to what, a second fiddle? The joke aside, I just looked at these and they are...
Thanks, Debbie, glad you liked the pictures! They were dedicated to Dimitar, because I know that he's (sort of) specializing in that genus.. The five pictures...
Speaking of Corts, this past year in CA has been quite a remarkable one for colorful Dermocybes. So many, everywhere. And of course, the aforementioned dye...
In a message dated 7/5/2008 4:48:52 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, irene@... writes: They were dedicated to Dimitar, because I know that he's (sort of) ...
Having been deeply buried in professional matters to the extent of losing orientation about "where and who am I", I almost fell back to my pre-2005 ways when...
Combining responses to save bandwith: ... Oh dear, the sturdy Phlegmaciums are some of the most gorgeous mushrooms out there. Their bewildering array of...
... There are two that seem familiar to me, and I wonder if the names are possible to use on these collections (if chemical reactions, spores and everything...
Thank you Irene. I need some Cort talk after having programmed 17 straight days, 17 hours a day... I did think of C. obtusus for the collection that you...
Dimitar, Speaking of Corts, I just posted on Mushroom Observer a collection of Cortinarius that look similar to C. papulosus from your website. However I can't...
Hi Ron, the spores there are decisively not Cortinarius. They're very smooth and not shaped like it. Superficially, it looked Hebelomish for a few seconds, but...
Hi Ron, ... Did not mean to suggest there is something wrong with that. Sorry if I sounded snotty. Did not mean to appear "taking myself too seriously" either....
Hi Ron, related to the thread -- the pileus of Inocybe is indeed described as "mostly" dry, but nothing in Nature seems to follow exactly our rules. Here are a...
While doing some research for the previous thread I stumbled on an old collection 2006-01-07 that I had recorded as Incoybe geophylla at the time. Looked at it...
Two pictures of a strange mushroom. It grows pillars that are about 9 inches long with a 3x1 inch pronged crown growing in a single cespitose cluster....
... Myxacium in the Delibuti section, but man, those spores, don't quite look like it. We'll wait for Irene to chime in. Well, that was my first impression...
... inches long with a 3x1 inch pronged crown growing in a single cespitose cluster. ... I have seen pictures of polypores with this abnormal growth, often ...
