Agaricus abruptibulbus

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Ecology: Saprobic; growing gregariously in hardwood forests or in urban locations under ornamental Norway spruce; fall; documented by Kerrigan (2016) from Pennsylvania, New York, and Washington. The illustrated and described collections are from Illinois.

Cap: 5-9 cm; convex to bell-shaped or a little blocky at first, becoming broadly convex or nearly flat; dry; minutely radially fibrillose or nearly bald; white when young, becoming yellowish with age; the margin not lined, yellowing slightly when rubbed repeatedly.

Gills: Free from the stem; crowded; short-gills frequent; white when young, becoming grayish and eventually dark brown; when in the button stage covered with a whitish partial veil that develops yellowish stains.

Stem: 5-10 cm long; 0.5-1 cm thick; equal above an abruptly bulbous base; bald; with a white to yellowish ring; whitish; bruising yellowish toward the base when rubbed; basal mycelium white.

Flesh: White; unchanging when sliced.

Odor and Taste: Strong; reminiscent of almonds.

Dried Specimens: Cap and stem dull orangish yellow.

Chemical Reactions: KOH yellow on cap surface.

Spore Print: Dark brown.

Microscopic Features: Spores: 6-7 x 3.5-4.5 m; ellipsoid; smooth; thick-walled; brown in KOH; brown in Melzer's. Basidia 4-sterigmate. Cheilocystidia 20-35 x 4-7 m; mutliseptate and catenulate; terminal elements subglobose to clavate or obpyriform; smooth; thin-walled; hyaline in KOH; soon collapsing. Pleurocystidia not found. Pileipellis a cutis; elements 2.5-5 m wide, smooth, hyaline in KOH.

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Boletus pseudosulphureus

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Ecology: Mycorrhizal with hardwoods and sometimes with conifers; growing alone, scattered, or gregariously; late spring, early summer, or summer; widely distributed in eastern North America.

Cap: 4-9 cm; cushion-shaped, becoming convex, broadly convex, or almost flat; dry; finely velvety when young, becoming fairly smooth, or cracked with age; bright yellow, developing orangish to reddish discolorations; bruising promptly blue to black; the margin with an overhanging sterile portion up to 1 mm wide.

Pore Surface: Bright yellow, becoming olive; bruising promptly blue or greenish; 2-3 pores per mm at maturity; tubes to about 1 cm deep.

Stem: 8-12 cm long; 1-1.5 cm thick; more or less equal; dry; solid; yellow above, reddish below--or occasionally yellow overall; smooth; not reticulate; bruising greenish to bluish, then grayish brown.

Flesh: Yellow; often red in the stem base; staining quickly blue on exposure.

Odor and Taste: Taste not distinctive or acidic; odor not distinctive.

Chemical Reactions: Ammonia negative on cap surface. KOH orange to red on cap surface and flesh. Iron salts gray to grayish olive on cap surface.

Spore Print: Olive brown.

Microscopic Features: Spores 10-14 x 4.5-6 ; smooth; broadly fusiform.

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Agaricus placomyces

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Ecology: Saprobic; growing scattered or gregariously under hardwoods or conifers—usually in woods, but also under planted trees in lawns and other urban settings; summer and fall; probably widely distributed in eastern North America. The illustrated and described collections are from Minnesota and Illinois.

Cap: 6-14 cm; convex, becoming broadly convex or nearly flat; dry; covered with radiating grayish brown pigment, especially over the center, but breaking up with development to form pigment streaks and fibrils; whitish underneath, or pinkish in wet weather; often yellowing when rubbed repeatedly (especially on the margin).

Gills: Free from the stem; crowded; short-gills frequent; whitish at first, becoming pink and eventually brown; when young covered by a rubbery, whitish partial veil that can develop yellow-then-brown stains.

Stem: 7-11 cm long; 1-2.5 cm thick; more or less equal, or with a slightly enlarged base (but not typically with an abrupt bulb); bald; whitish to brownish; bruising yellow and then slowly brown where handled, especially at the base; with a persistent whitish ring.

Flesh: White throughout; staining bright yellow in the base.

Odor and Taste: Odor phenolic, or not distinctive.

Chemical Reactions: KOH yellow on cap surface.

Spore Print: Brown.

Microscopic Features: Spores 5-6 x 3.5-4.5 m; ellipsoid; smooth; thick-walled; brown in KOH. Basidia 4-sterigmate. Cheilocystidia 15-30 x 4-10 m; clavate to subglobose; septate; smooth; thin-walled; hyaline in KOH. Pileipellis a cutis; elements 2.5-7.5 m wide, smooth, brownish to golden in KOH.

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Tricholoma aurantium

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Ecology: Mycorrhizal with conifers; growing scattered or gregariously, sometimes in clusters; fairly widely distributed in northern and montane North America (including the Rocky Mountains and the Appalachians); summer and fall. The illustrated and described collections are from Colorado, Michigan, and Kentucky.

Cap: 4-9 cm; convex when young, expanding to broadly convex or nearly flat; slimy or sticky when fresh and young; orange to dull reddish orange, bruising red; fading to dirty brownish orange and often developing a fine mosaic of broken-up pigmentation; fairly bald, or with scattered, appressed fibrils and, in age, scales; the margin initially inrolled and, when fresh, adorned with droplets of red liquid.

Gills: Broadly attached to the stem, or atached by a notch; crowded; short-gills frequent; creamy, developing brown to reddish brown discolorations; eventually brownish overall.

Stem: 3-9 cm long; 1-2 cm thick; more or less equal, or tapering to the base; covered with dense, orange to brownish orange scaly girdles that terminate in an abrupt line near the apex; white above; basal mycelium white.

Flesh: White; not changing on exposure, or turning pinkish in places.

Odor and Taste: Strongly mealy.

Chemical Reactions: KOH red on cap surface.

Spore Print: White.

Microscopic Features: Spores 3.5-5 x 2.5-3.5 m; ellipsoid; smooth; hyaline and uniguttulate in KOH; inamyloid. Basidia 4-sterigmate. Cheilocystidia not found. Pleurocystidia not found. Lamellar trama parallel. Pileipellis an ixocutis; elements 2.5-5 m wide, smooth, hyaline to orangish or orangish yellow in KOH. Clamp connections not found.

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Boletus subluridellus

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Ecology: Mycorrhizal with oaks; growing alone, scattered, or gregariously; summer; possibly widely distributed east of the Great Plains.

Cap: 4-13 cm across; convex, becoming broadly convex; dry; finely velvety when young, with a resinous feel; sometimes becoming more or less bald by maturity; brownish red to orangish red, with a thin layer of brownish to olive brown fuzz that can be rubbed away; sometimes with mottled yellow and red shades; when fresh bruising deep violet, then slowly blackish; margin at first inrolled and yellowish, with a narrow sterile overhang.

Pore Surface: Initially dark orangish red; fading to orange; bruising promptly dark blue or nearly black; 3-4 round pores per mm; tubes to 1 cm deep.

Stem: 4-10 cm long; 1-1.5 cm thick; more or less equal; often curved near the base; not reticulate; yellow, coated with red, especially toward the base; bruising blue; basal mycelium whitish to yellow, bruising dark red.

Flesh: Yellow in the cap; darker yellow in the stem; promptly bluing when sliced.

Odor and Taste: Not distinctive.

Chemical Reactions: Ammonia negative on cap surface; orangish on flesh. KOH orange to red on cap surface; orange on flesh. Iron salts negative on cap surface; negative on flesh.

Spore Print: Olive.

Microscopic Features: Spores 9-15 x 3.5-4.5 ; smooth; fusiform; yellow in KOH. Hymenial cystidia inconspicuous; yellow in KOH; widely fusiform; to about 50 long. Pileipellis a tightly packed trichoderm of hyphae 2.5-5 wide; yellowish to yellow in KOH; terminal elements cylindric with rounded apices, or aciculate, with subacute apices. Some pileipellis and subcuticular elements pinkish red in Melzer's reagent. Caulocystidia of two types: fusoid-ventricose, yellow in KOH, 25-25 long; or fusiform to fusoid-ventricose with an extended mucro, to 100+ long.

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Leucocoprinus flavescens

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Ecology: Saprobic; growing alone or scattered in the vicinity of black locust or honey locust; also reported from greenhouses; summer; distribution uncertain. The illustrated and described collections are from Illinois.

Cap: 1-2.5 cm; egg-shaped when young, becoming bell-shaped to broadly convex or nearly flat at maturity, but retaining a central bump; dry; grooved from the margin to the central "eye"; powdery or very finely scaly where grooved; bald over the center; light greenish yellow except for the brownish to tawny brown center.

Gills: Free from the stem; close; short-gills infrequent; white with a yellowish cast, or yellowish.

Stem: 20-60 mm long; 1-2 mm thick; more or less equal above, but with a swollen base; pale yellow; sometimes discoloring reddish brown; when fresh and young covered with tiny powdery scales, but soon bald; with a yellowish, bracelet-like ring on the upper stem that sometimes disappears; basal mycelium white.

Flesh: Whitish to pale yellow; very thin.

Odor and Taste: Odor not distinctive; taste bitter.

Chemical Reactions: KOH negative on cap surface.

Spore Print: White.

Microscopic Features: Spores 4-6.5 x 3.5-4.5 ; ellipsoid to broadly ellipsoid or nearly subglobose; without a pore; smooth; thick-walled; hyaline in KOH; golden to tawny yellow in Melzer's. Cheilocystidia 35-50 x 7.5-10 ; widely cylindric to clavate, subclavate, subutriform, or subfusiform; hyaline in KOH; thin-walled. Pleurocystidia not found. Pileipellis with inflated (10-35 ), subglobose cells over the disc (young specimens) and scattered among the striae (often difficult to find).

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'Lichenform' May 15 - June 21
Opening event Thursday May 21 6-8pm
Eltham Library Community Gallery, VIC.

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Lysurus corallocephalus

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Note: Since I have not collected or studied collections of this mushroom, the description is based on the sources cited below and the photos sent to me.

Ecology: Probably saprobic; growing alone or gregariously in a variety of habitats (Dring [1980] lists the following for specimens examined: "on soil in maize field," "under Pithecolobium," "Old Calabar botanic garden," "in Acacia xanthophaea woodland," "Bamboo forest c. 7000 ft," "edge of cultivated field and natural woodland," and "in grass"); originally described from Angola (Welwitsch & Currey 1868); distributed throughout subSaharan Africa; found year-round.

Fruiting Body: At first a pale "egg" up to 4 cm across; emerging to form a stem and a head. Stem up to 12 cm high; more or less cylindric; hollow; whitish to yellowish, pink, or reddish; spongy; pitted; arising from a whitish to pinkish volva. Head scarlet to reddish orange, with protruding branches arranged around polygonal meshes; the branches simple or forked, up to 3 mm wide and 2 cm long, accordion-like when fresh; covered with olive-brown to dark brown spore slime.

Microscopic Features: Spores 3.5-4.5 x 1.5-2 m; more or less ellipsoid.

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