Helvella corium

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Ecology: Probably mycorrhizal; growing in woods, in sandy soil, or in debris areas, often near willows or aspens; May to August; widely distributed in boreal and montane North America north of roughly the 42nd parallel.

Cap: 1-7 cm across; cup shaped, saucer shaped, or nearly flat; upper surface smooth, or roughened near the center, bald; undersurface black, sometimes whitish at the margin, very finely hairy.

Stem: 1-4 cm long; 2-15 mm thick; black or very dark brown; sometimes grayish near the base; bald or finely hairy; sometimes with shallow ribs when mature.

Microscopic Features: Spores 16.5-21 x 9-15 ; elliptical; smooth; usually with one large oil droplet. Paraphyses cylindric with clavate apices; brown; 3.5-9 wide. Asci 8-spored. Elements on excipular surface in chains; swollen but constricted at septa; terminal cell clavate to subglobose, up to 25 across; brown in KOH.

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Deconica argentina

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Ecology: Saprobic; growing gregariously or in loose clusters on the dung of horses and cows in meadows, sunny areas at the edges of woods, and so on; probably to be expected throughout montane and northern North America; summer and fall. The illustrated and described collections are from Colorado.

Cap: Up to 3.5 cm across; convex at first, becoming broadly convex; sticky when fresh, but soon glossy and dry; bald; reddish brown to orangish brown, fading to yellowish brown or yellowish; sometimes developing cracks in the pigment in old age, resulting in a mosaic-like appearance; the young margin ringed with whitish, fibrillose partial veil remnants that sometimes remain as tatters as the mushroom matures.

Gills: Broadly attached to the stem; distant; short-gills infrequent; pale to medium brown, with contrasting whitish edges.

Stem: 1-3 cm long; 2-4 mm thick; equal; dry; finely hairy or fuzzy; whitish, discoloring brownish; without a ring or ring zone after the veil breaks; basal mycelium white.

Flesh: Brownish; unchanging when sliced.

Odor and Taste: Not distinctive.

Spore Print: Dark purplish brown (Guzmán 1983).

Chemical Reactions: KOH on cap surface negative.

Microscopic Features: Spores 13-18 x 7-10 m; elongated-subhexagonal; smooth; with a large pore; thick-walled; brown in KOH. Basidia 4-sterigmate. Cheilocystidia 35-45 m; fusiform-lageniform; smooth; thin-walled; hyaline in KOH; abundant. Pleurocystidia not found. Pileipellis an ixocutis of elements about 2.5 m wide; elements smooth, yellowish to orangish brown in KOH. Clamp connections present in contextual hyphae.

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Been super busy lately, so I decided to try my hand at doing an ink-only piece. Honestly, I think it came out well, even if I had to cover up a fair few mistakes and I ended up smudging my logo >< What do you think?

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Following the mushroom demo for Drawabox's third lesson. Decided to colour it in as well! Anyone here like mushrooms?

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Chroogomphus pseudovinicolor

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Ecology: Mycorrhizal with Ponderosa Pine and Douglas-Fir; typically growing in small clusters of 2-3 mushrooms, but sometimes growing alone or scattered; summer and fall (and early winter in coastal California); distributed in western North America.

Cap: 5-15 cm wide; convex becoming planoconvex; dry; dull red to dull orange, with a paler margin; darkening to brownish red with age; smooth, but the margin frequently adorned with felty patches or fibers from the partial veil.

Gills: Running down the stem; distant or nearly so; often forking; pale orangish to yellowish at first, developing olive shades and finally turning olive-black as the spores mature.

Stem: 6-12 cm long; up to 5 cm wide; tapering to base; orangish and fairly smooth above the ring zone, but prominently scaly to hairy with reddish to purplish red fibers below; orangish underneath the scales and zones of fibers.

Flesh: Orangish; often yellow in the stem.

Odor and Taste: Not distinctive.

Spore Print: Greenish to olive black.

Microscopic Features: Spores 15-20 x 5-7.5 ; smooth; narrowly elliptical to subfusoid. Cystidia fusiform to cylindric; up to about 200 x 20 ; with thick walls reaching 5-6 wide. Pileipellis a nongelatinized trichoderm.

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Ramaria stricta

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Ecology: Uncertain; while most ramarias are thought to be mycorrhizal, the wood-inhabiting species could be mycorrhizal or saprobic; growing from the dead (but sometimes buried) wood of conifers (and sometimes hardwoods); appearing alone, scattered, or gregariously; early summer through fall; apparently widely distributed in North America, but more common from the Rocky Mountains westward.

Fruiting Body: 4-14 cm high; 4-10 cm wide; base well developed or nearly absent; branching repeatedly.

Branches: Vertically oriented and elongated; often flattened; smooth; yellowish buff, becoming orangish buff as the spores mature; bruising and discoloring purplish brown; tips yellow when fresh and young.

Base: Nearly absent, or fairly well developed; to 2 cm wide; white below; colored like the branches above; attached to numerous white rhizomorphs.

Flesh: Whitish; fairly tough.

Odor and Taste: Odor not distinctive, or sweet and fragrant; taste bitter.

Spore Print: Rusty yellowish.

Chemical Reactions: Iron salts green on branches; KOH orangish to brownish on branches.

Microscopic Features: Spores 7.5-10.5 x 3.5-5 ; stretched-elliptical; roughened. Clamp connections present. Thick-walled hyphae present.

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Tricholomopsis sulphureoides

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Ecology: Saprobic on the wood of conifers, especially hemlocks&mdash;or on the wood of hardwoods undergoing a brown rot; usually growing gregariously or in clusters; summer and fall; more common in the Great Lakes region and northeastern North America than elsewhere, but occasionally reported in the Rocky Mountains, the southeastern United States, and on the West Coast. The illustrated and described collections are from Illinois.

Cap: 2-6 cm; at first convex with an incurved margin, becoming broadly convex or flat; dry; subtomentose when young, becoming finely scaly to stretched-fibrillose overall, with a subtomentose marginal zone; bright yellow when fresh, but soon fading to dull yellow and developing whitish spots and streaks; bruising slightly brownish in places.

Gills: Broadly attached to the stem; close; short-gills frequent; yellow to yellowish orange.

Stem: 4-8 cm long; 0.5-1 cm thick; equal; dry; slightly fibrillose in places; pale yellow, staining orangish where handled; basal mycelium pale yellow.

Flesh: Yellow to pale yellow; turning slightly brownish in places when sliced.

Odor and Taste: Odor fragrant; taste not distinctive.

Chemical Reactions: KOH instantly dark brownish red on cap surface.

Spore Print: White.

Microscopic Features: Spores 5-6 x 4-5.5 m; subglobose to sublacrymoid, with a tiny apiculus; smooth; hyaline in KOH; inamyloid. Cheilocystidia 40-75 x 5-7.5 m; cylindric with rounded to subclavate apices; smooth or occasionally finely encrusted; thin-walled; hyaline to orangish in KOH. Pleurocystidia not found. Lamellar trama parallel. Pileipellis a cutis with aggregated upright tufts; orange-brown in KOH; elements smooth, 2.5-5 m wide; terminal cells cylindric with rounded apices. Clamp connections present in lamellar trama and pileipellis.

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