Harrya chromapes

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Ecology: Mycorrhizal with a wide variety of hardwoods and conifers, appearing in diverse ecosystems; often growing alone, but also found growing scattered or gregariously; summer and fall (also over winter on the Gulf Coast); widely distributed east of the Great Plains.

Cap: 3-11 cm; convex, becoming broadly convex or nearly plane; surface dry or tacky, finely velvety or nearly bald; occasionally somewhat pitted; when young pink to brownish pink or pale red, fading to pinkish tan, tan or dull yellowish; without a sterile, overhanging margin.

Pore Surface: Creamy white, becoming pinkish, then brownish to reddish brown; not bruising; depressed at the stem; 1-3 round to angular pores per mm; tubes to 14 mm deep.

Stem: 4-17 cm long; 1-2.5 cm wide; at maturity more or less equal or tapering to apex, but with a pinched-off base; whitish to pinkish above, chrome yellow at the base (occasionally yellow overall); finely silky or finely lined near the apex; densely covered with fine scabers, except over the base; scabers usually pinkish to reddish brown, but occasionally whitish and difficult to distinguish; basal mycelium chrome yellow.

Flesh: Whitish or faintly pinkish; often pinkish beneath the skin of the cap; unchanging when sliced and exposed to air, or rarely (according to some authors) faintly bluish or yellowish in limited areas; quickly invaded in the stem by larvae; frequently brown and cavernous in the lower portion at maturity.

Odor and Taste: Not distinctive.

Chemical Reactions: Ammonia yellow to negative on cap surface; negative on flesh. KOH olive to brownish on cap surface; olive to brownish on flesh. Iron salts gray on cap surface; blue green on flesh.

Spore Print: Pinkish brown to cinnamon brown or purplish brown.

Microscopic Features: Spores 9-13 x 4-5 ; smooth; subfusiform; hyaline to yellowish in KOH; inamyloid. Hymenial cystidia fusoid-ventricose to fusiform; up to 50 x 12 or larger; often scarcely projecting beyond the basidia; hyaline or yellowish in KOH; scattered. Pileipellis a tangled layer of repent or suberect hyphae up to 7 wide; the terminal elements with rounded apices, not swollen; hyaline to yellow or golden yellow in KOH. Caulocystidia scattered; in bundles with caulobasidia; variously shaped (subclavate, fusoid, cylindric, subcapitate, irregular); up to 48 x 15 ; hyaline to yellowish in KOH.

REFERENCES: (Frost, 1874) Halling, Nuhn, Osmundson & Manf. Binder, 2012. (Atkinson, 1900; Coker & Beers, 1943; Singer, 1945; Smith & Thiers, 1968; Snell & Dick, 1970; http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=fung1tc;cc=fung1tc;rgn=full%20text;idno=AGK0838.0001.001;didno=AGK0838.0001.001;view=image;seq=00000100" TARGET="new">Smith & Thiers, 1971; Grund & Harrison, 1976; Smith, Smith & Weber, 1981; http://www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cyberliber/59350/0075/001/0070.htm" TARGET="new 1983; Both, 1983; Arora, 1986; Phillips, 1991/ 2005; Lincoff, 1992; Metzler & Metzler, 1992; Wolfe & Brougher, 1993; Barron, 1999; Bessette, Roody & Bessette, 2000; http://www.mycologia.org/cgi/content/full/95/3/488" TARGET="new"<>Halling & Mueller, 2003 ["L. cartagoense"]; Roody, 2003; http://www.nybg.org/bsci/res/hall/chromap.html" TARGET="new 2006; McNeil, 2006; Miller & Miller, 2006; Ortiz-Santana et al., 2007; Binion et al., 2008; Halling et al., 2012.) Herb. EIU ASM 4753, ASM 5791. Herb. Kuo 09070101, 09150709, 07221001.

Leccinum chromapes and Tylopilus chromapes are synonyms.

<B>Further Information Online:</B>

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=fung1tc;cc=fung1tc;rgn=full%20text;idno=AGK0838.0001.001;didno=AGK0838.0001.001;view=image;seq=00000100" TARGET="new">Tylopilus chromapes in Smith & Thiers, 1971<BR>http://www.nybg.org/bsci/res/hall/chromap.html" TARGET="new">Harrya chromapes at Macrofungi of Costa Rica<BR>http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/gallery/DisplayBlock~bid~6894.asp" TARGET="new">Tylopilus chromapes at Roger's Mushrooms

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Yellow stainer or Death cap mushrooms I reckon, finding more of them this year around the Dandenong creek.

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Cortinarius sanguineus

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Ecology: Mycorrhizal with conifers&mdash;primarily spruces but also with firs, eastern hemlock, and northern white-cedar; growing alone, scattered, or gregariously; summer and fall; originally described from Austria; fairly widely distributed in northern and montane Europe; in North America known from boreal and sub-boreal ecosystems from Michigan to Newfoundland and New Jersey. The illustrated and described collection is from New Jersey.

Cap: 1.5-4.5 cm; convex or bell-shaped at first, becoming broadly bell-shaped, convex, or nearly flat; dry; silky to finely hairy; bright, dark red; the margin not lined.

Gills: Broadly attached to the stem; close; colored like the cap, becoming cinnamon to rusty red; short-gills frequent; when young covered by a red cortina.

Stem: 3-6 cm long; 2-4 mm thick; more or less equal; dry; silky; colored like the cap; sometimes with a rusty ring zone; basal mycelium reddish.

Flesh: Whitish to pale pinkish; unchanging when sliced.

Odor: Not distinctive.

Spore Print: Rusty brown.

Microscopic Features: Spores 6-8 x 3.5-5 m; ellipsoid or subamygdaliform; finely to moderately verrucose. Basidia 15-20 x 5-6 m; subclavate; 4-sterigmate. Pleurocystidia not found. Marginal cells 8-12 x 5-7 m; clavate to obpyriform; smooth; thin-walled. Pileipellis a cutis; elements 10-15 m wide, smooth, hyaline to pink-walled in KOH, clamped at septa.

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Pluteus leucoborealis

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Ecology: Saprobic on the deadwood of birches and alders; growing alone or gregariously on stumps and logs; summer and fall; originally described from Russia (Justo et al. 2014), with paratype collections from Mongolia, Alaska, Michigan, and New York; probably widespread in boreal and sub-boreal forests. The illustrated and described collection is from Michigan.

Cap: 2-6 cm; convex, becoming broadly convex; dry; white; bald or brown-fibrillose, especially over the center; the margin not lined.

Gills: Free from the stem; close; short-gills frequent; whitish at first, becoming pinkish.

Stem: 3-6 cm long; 4-7 mm thick; tapered slightly to apex; scurfy; white with brown fibrils; basal mycelium white.

Flesh: White; unchanging when sliced.

Odor: Not distinctive, or slightly foul and reminiscent of coal tar.

Spore Print: Brownish pink.

Microscopic Features: Spores 7-9 x 5-6 m; broadly ellipsoid; smooth; hyaline in KOH; inamyloid. Basidia 20-30 x 5-7.5 m; clavate; 4-sterigmate. Pleurocystidia 65-80 x 15-24 m; lageniform to subutriform or fusiform (intermediate cystidia); apex developing 2-4 prongs; smooth; walls 1-1.5 m thick; hyaline in KOH. Cheilocystidia 30-50 x 10-20 m; clavate; smooth; hyaline in KOH. Pileipellis a partially gelatinized cutis; elements 4-10 m wide, smooth, hyaline to brownish in KOH. Clamp connections not found.

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Suillus hirtellus

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Ecology: Mycorrhizal with southern hard pines (those with needles in bundles of 2 or 3), including loblolly pine, shortleaf pine, and longleaf pine; growing gregariously in summer and fall or, in warm climates, over winter; originally described from New York (but see discussion on the page for Suillus subaureus); distributed primarily in the southeastern United States (the natural range of the host trees), or where the host trees have been planted as ornamentals or in plantations; also known from the Dominican Republic under Hispaniola pine (where it is often misidentified as "Suillus tomentosus"). The illustrated and described collections are from Georgia, Illinois, and Texas.

Cap: 4-10 cm across; convex becoming broadly convex or nearly flat; sticky when fresh; usually finely fibrillose, at least over the center, with the fibrils sometimes darkening and, with age, aggregating into small scales&mdash;but also often appearing more or less bald without close inspection; dull yellow to orangish yellow, fading to brownish; young margin with a soft sterile edge that is sometimes fibrillose.

Pore Surface: Dull yellow at first, becoming brownish yellow with age&mdash;or sometimes brownish throughout development; not bruising or, with age, bruising brownish; pores about 1 mm wide at maturity, angular, radially arranged; tubes up to 1 cm deep.

Stem: 4-10 cm long; 1-1.5 cm thick; equal or with a tapering base; yellowish to orangish; with glandular dots that are initially concolorous with the stem surface and hard to see, but soon become brown and contrasting; without a ring; discoloring brownish where handled; basal mycelium white.

Flesh: Yellow; not changing when sliced.

Odor and Taste: Odor fragrant, or not distinctive; taste slightly lemony.

Chemical Reactions: Ammonia negative on cap; red on flesh. KOH gray on cap; purple on flesh. Iron salts negative on cap; bluish on flesh.

Spore Print: Dark cinnamon brown.

Microscopic Features: Spores 6-11 x 2.5-4 m; boletoid-fusiform; smooth; hyaline to yellowish in KOH. Basidia 22-26 x 5-6 m; subclavate; 4-sterigmate. Hymenial cystidia in bundles; 40-60 x 6-12.5 m; mostly clavate but occasionally cylindric, subcapitate, or subfusiform; brown in KOH. Pileipellis an ixocutis; elements 3-10 wide, smooth or encrusted, hyaline to brown in KOH; interspersed with upright aggregations of cystidioid elements (fibrils).

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Lactarius controversus

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Ecology: Mycorrhizal with species of Populus (especially quaking aspen and big-toothed aspen) and Salix; growing alone or gregariously--or sometimes in dense troops; summer and fall; widely distributed in northern and montane North America.

Cap: 7-30 cm; at first convex with an inrolled, slightly hairy margin; becoming flat with a central depression, or vase-shaped, with an even and bald margin; slimy to sticky when fresh, but soon dry; rugged with appressed fibers; whitish overall, but often with faint zones of pinkish or purplish, especially near the margin.

Gills: Attached to the stem or beginning to run down it; thin; close or nearly crowded; sometimes forking near the stem; pinkish to pale pink.

Stem: 2.5-10 cm long; 1.5-4 cm thick; more or less equal, or tapering to the base; sticky when fresh, but soon dry; usually without potholes, but occasionally with a few; bald; eventually becoming hollow; whitish.

Flesh: White; unchanging on exposure; fairly firm.

Milk: White; unchanging on exposure to air; not staining tissues; not staining white paper.

Odor and Taste: Odor not distinctive, or pleasantly fragrant; taste slowly moderately to strongly acrid.

Chemical Reactions: Cap surface negative to pale yellowish with KOH.

Spore Print: Creamy white or pale pinkish.

Microscopic Features: Spores 6-7.5 x 4.5-5 ; ellipsoid; ornamentation under 0.5 high, as amyloid warts and ridges usually forming partial or nearly complete reticula. Pleuromacrocystidia and cheilomacrocystidia scattered; not projecting; inconspicuous; aciculate to fusiform, with apical constrictions; to about 45 long. Pileipellis an ixocutis.

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