Gymnopilus luteofolius

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Ecology: Saprobic on the deadwood of conifers (including commercial lumber and wood chips), and occasionally reported on the wood of hardwoods; usually growing in loose clusters or densely gregariously; summer and fall, or over winter in warm climates; apparently widely distributed in North America. The illustrated and described collections are from Illinois and North Carolina.

Cap: 2-6 cm; convex, becoming broadly convex, broadly bell-shaped, or nearly flat; dry; densely to sparsely covered with small, innate scales, especially over the center; purplish red to pinkish brick red when young, fading to pinkish or yellowish (or somewhat mottled with these colors); eventually becoming brownish orange or tan; sometimes stained bluish green in places; the margin not lined.

Gills: Attached to the stem by a notch; close; pale to medium yellow at first, becoming deeper yellow and developing rusty brown discolorations; eventually becoming rusty overall; short-gills frequent; when very young covered by a thin partial veil.

Stem: 3-6 cm long; 3-6 mm thick; more or less equal, or sometimes with a slightly swollen base; purplish pink, becoming orangish to brownish; fibrillose; with a flimsy, ephemeral ring or with a ring zone near the apex; basal mycelium white.

Flesh: Whitish; turning purplish pink in the cap when sliced, or not changing.

Odor and Taste: Taste strongly bitter; odor not distinctive.

Chemical Reactions: KOH olive to black on cap surface.

Spore Print: Bright rusty orange.

Microscopic Features: Spores 5.5-8.5 x 3.5-5 m; more or less ellipsoid; verrucose; brownish orange in KOH; dextrinoid. Basidia 4-sterigmate. Pleurocystidia not found. Cheilocystidia abundant, scattered, or absent; 20-30 x 5-7.5 m; clavate, subcapitate, or lageniform; smooth; thin-walled; hyaline to dark brownish orange in KOH. Pileipellis a cutis; elements 5-15 m wide, smooth or encrusted, brownish orange in KOH, with clamp connections.

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Lactarius xanthogalactus

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Ecology: Mycorrhizal with coast live oak, and possibly with Douglas-fir (Horton et al. 1999); growing alone or gregariously; fall and winter; originally described from the Stanford University campus; distributed primarily in coastal California. The illustrated and described collections are from Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties.

Cap: 5-12 cm; convex with an incurved margin when young, becoming shallowly vase-shaped, with the margin uplifted; sticky when young, but soon merely moist, or dry; bald; orangish brown to reddish brown, often with vague concentric zones of color.

Gills: Beginning to run down the stem; close; short-gills frequent; pale yellowish at first, becoming orangish to dull brownish orange.

Stem: 2-7 cm long; 1-1.5 cm thick; equal; bald; without potholes; colored like the cap; hollowing with age; basal mycelium white to yellowish.

Flesh: White; stained yellow by the milk when sliced.

Milk: White as exuded but quickly yellow.

Odor and Taste: Odor not distinctive; taste not distinctive, or faintly acrid.

Microscopic Features: Spores 6-8 x 5-7 m; ellipsoid; ornamentation consisting of amyloid ridges and warts under 0.5 m high, forming partial reticula. Hymenial macrocystidia 45-70 x 7-11 m; fusiform, occasionally with an apical constriction and a knob; smooth; thin-walled; hyaline in KOH. Pileipellis an ixocutis.

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Clavariadelphus occidentalis

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Ecology: Probably mycorrhizal; associated with conifers; growing scattered or gregariously (or rarely in small clusters); widely distributed on the West Coast from Alaska to Mexico, and east as far as Idaho; fall and winter.

Fruiting Body: 5-20 cm high; .5-3 cm wide; cylindric or spindle shaped when young, later enlarging at the top and becoming club shaped; surface smooth or, in age, wrinkled longitudinally; at first pale yellowish to pale pinkish, darkening to pinkish or pale cinnamon with age; bruising cinnamon brown; the base with pale mycelium; flesh whitish, becoming pale brownish on exposure to air.

Odor and Taste: Not distinctive.

Chemical Reactions: Surface negative with KOH, greenish with iron salts (illustrated).

Spore Print: White.

Microscopic Features: Spores 9-13.5 x 5-6.5 ; flask shaped (more or less elliptical, with a "spout"); smooth.

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According to my plant recognition app, one of these can fill a grown man's belly for the rest of his life.
Now, that's what I call #magicmushrooms

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Leucocoprinus birnbaumii

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Ecology: Saprobic; growing alone, gregariously, or clustered in flower pots, greenhouses, and so on—or, in warm conditions, outside in gardens, lawns, and other cultivated areas (often around stumps); also growing in hardwood and conifer forests, especially in disturbed ground areas (pathsides, etc.); outdoors in summer, indoors year-round; widely distributed in North America. The illustrated and described collections are from Florida, Texas, Indiana, New York, North Carolina, and Oregon.

Cap: 2.5-5 cm across; oval to egg-shaped when young, becoming broadly conical, broadly convex, or bell-shaped; dry; powdery to finely scaly; the margin lined or grooved nearly to the center by maturity; bright to pale yellow, often with a darker (but not brown) center.

Gills: Free from the stem; crowded; short-gills frequent; pale yellow to yellow.

Stem: 3-10 cm long; 2-5 mm thick; more or less equal above a slightly swollen base; dry; bald or powdery; with a fragile, bracelet-like, yellow ring that sometimes disappears; basal mycelium pale yellow.

Flesh: Whitish to yellowish; very thin.

Odor and Taste: Not distinctive.

Spore Print: White.

Microscopic Features: Spores 8-12 x 5-7 m (occasionally shorter, 7-9 x 5-6 m); ellipsoid to slightly amygdaliform, with a 1-2 m pore at one end; smooth; thick-walled; hyaline in KOH; dextrinoid. Basidioles inflated, brachybasidiole-like. Cheilocystidia to about 50 x 15 m; ventricose; rostrate; thin-walled; smooth; hyaline in KOH. Pleurocystidia absent. Pileipellis a cutis of elements 5-10 m wide; terminal cells cylindric with rounded apices. Floccose material on cap surface composed of inflated, subglobose to pyriform elements 15-25 m across.

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Hypomyces hyalinus

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Ecology: Parasitic on Amanita rubescens and other species of Amanita. Originally described from North Carolina (von Schweinitz 1822); distributed in North America primarily east of the Great Plains and in central Mexico, with some records from the Pacific Northwest; also recorded from Asia. The illustrated and described collections are from Illinois.

Fruiting Body: A soft, whitish to pinkish coating that attacks the host rapidly and soon covers all surfaces, disfiguring the mushroom; when on Amanita rubescens sometimes retaining the "blushing" characteristic of that species.

Perithecia: Orangish or brownish; usually visible to the naked eye.

Chemical Reactions: KOH on surface negative.

Microscopic Features: (Note: Since specimens I have examined have been immature, some microscopic data comes from Rogerson & Samuels 1994.) Spores 15-20 x 4.5-6.5 m; fusiform; verrucose; apiculi about 2 m long; septate once. Asci about 125 x 5 ml cylindric; 8-spored. Subicular hyphae 2-4 m wide, septate, smooth, hyaline in KOH.

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Hygrophorus purpurascens

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Ecology: Mycorrhizal with conifers; growing alone, scattered, or gregariously; late summer and fall (over winter in warmer climates); fairly widely distributed in northern and western North America, and reported from the Appalachian Mountains. The illustrated and described collections are from Colorado and Québec.

Cap: 2.5-8 cm; convex when young, becoming broadly convex or more or less flat; sticky when fresh or wet; with a streaked appearance from stretched-out, pinkish purple, appressed fibers; pinkish red to purplish red, but lighter toward the margin; the margin inrolled when young.

Gills: Attached to the stem or beginning to run down it; close or nearly distant; white when young, becoming somewhat pinkish and developing purplish or reddish spots and discolorations; waxy; when young covered by a whitish, hairy or tissuelike partial veil.

Stem: 3-7 cm long; 1-2 cm thick; equal, or with a tapering base; dry; frequently with a fragile purplish ring or ring zone, but also frequently without evidence of the veil when mature; colored like the cap or a little paler; not discoloring yellowish.

Flesh: White; unchanging; firm.

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

Chemical Reactions: KOH on cap surface erasing purple shades, becoming grayish to yellowish gray.

Spore Print: White.

Microscopic Features: Spores 5.5-8 x 3-4.5 ; smooth; ellipsoid; hyaline in KOH; inamyloid. Hymenial cystidia absent. Lamellar trama divergent. Pileipellis an ixocutis.

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Entoloma tjallingiorum

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Ecology: Saprobic; growing alone or gregariously on the well-rotted, mossy deadwood of oaks; fall; North American distribution uncertain (the illustrated and described collection was made in Illinois; see also the comments above about Largent's report of the species in western North America).

Cap: 2-5 cm; planoconvex; dry; finely scaly (especially over the center) and radially fibrillose; grayish brown; the margin not lined.

Gills: Attached to the stem; close or nearly distant; whitish to buff at first, becoming pinkish.

Stem: 2-6 cm long; 3-8 mm thick; slightly enlarged toward the base; dry; finely fibrillose to finely scaly; blue at the apex, brown below.

Flesh: Thin; whitish; unchanging when sliced.

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

Chemical Reactions: KOH on cap surface negative, then slowly gray.

Spore Print: Pink.

Microscopic Features: Spores 9-11 x 6-7.5 ; mostly 6-sided; heterodiametric, with shallow angles; smooth; hyaline. Pleurocystidia absent. Cheilocystidia cylindric to subutriform or subfusiform; apices rounded; to 50 x 7.5 . Pileipellis a cutis; elements hyaline to brownish in 10% ammonia; pigment intracellular. Clamp connections present.

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