Suillus spectabilis

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Ecology: Mycorrhizal with tamarack; growing gregariously in low-lying, swampy areas; usually terrestrial, but sometimes growing from well-rotted stumps and logs; late summer and fall; originally described from upstate New York; widespread in North America throughout the natural range of tamarack; also reported in Finland. The illustrated and described collection is from Wisconsin.

Note: The illustrated and described collection is apparently a bit small in comparison to "typical" collections.

Cap: 4-5 cm across; convex becoming broadly convex; sticky when fresh; with grayish to brownish appressed, fibrillose patches and scales over a pinkish red to red ground; the margin sometimes hung with grayish partial veil remnants.

Pore Surface: Yellow; not bruising, or bruising slightly pinkish; 1-2 angular pores per mm; tubes to about 5 mm deep.

Stem: 4-6 cm long; 1-1.5 cm thick; more or less equal; bald and yellow above the ring; red and fibrillose below.

Partial Veil: Glutinous and red when fresh, covering the pore surface and cap; after breaking, disposed as grayish to reddish, sub-fibrillose patches on the cap and, on the stem, as a red, gelatinous ring.

Flesh: Pale yellow in cap and upper stem; darker yellow in stem base; not changing when sliced.

Odor and Taste: Not distinctive.

Chemical Reactions: Not tested on the described and illustrated specimens; KOH reported by Smith & Thiers (1971) as dark green on the flesh.

Spore Print: Dark purplish brown.

Microscopic Features: Spores 10-13 x 3.5-5 m; subfusiform; smooth; yellowish to dull golden in KOH. Basidia 30-35 x 4-6 m; subclavate; 4-sterigmate. Cystidia in bundles; 25-60 x 4-6 m; sometimes poorly defined; subcylindric to subfusiform; thin-walled; reddish brown-encrusted in KOH. Pileipellis an ixocutis; elements 5-10 m wide, smooth or slightly encrusted, yellow to hyaline in KOH. Clamp connections not found.

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Some common names are just perfect.

Moss Bells [Galerina hypnorum]
(Several similar mushrooms are often assigned this identification.)

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Volvopluteus gloiocephalus

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Ecology: Saprobic; growing terrestrially, alone or gregariously in urban settings and disturbed ground (landscaping, ditches, beaches, lawns, gardens, and so on)—and, east of the Rocky Mountains, sometimes in forests; found year-round, depending on the climate; widely distributed in North America, though some records of it from east of the Rocky Mountains may represent other similar species, including the smaller-spored Volvopluteus michiganensis. The illustrated and described collections are from California and Illinois.

Cap: 5-10 cm across; convex becoming broadly convex, broadly bell-shaped, or nearly flat; sticky when fresh and young but often soon dry; bald; color variable (see discussion above), white to grayish or gray, discoloring brownish to yellowish with age; when gray, with a radially streaked, appressed-fibrillose appearance; the margin sometimes finely lined.

Gills: Free from the stem; close or nearly crowded; short-gills frequent; white at first, becoming brownish pink with maturity.

Stem: 6-13 cm long; 1-2 cm thick; tapered to apex; base slightly swollen; dry; bald or finely silky; white, discoloring brownish; without a ring; the base encased in a white, cup-like volva; basal mycelium white.

Flesh: White; not changing when sliced.

Odor and Taste: Not distinctive, or a little foul.

Chemical Reactions: KOH negative on cap surface.

Spore Print: Brownish pink.

Microscopic Features: Spores 13-19 x 7-10 m; ellipsoid; thick-walled; smooth; hyaline to yellowish in KOH. Basidia 4-sterigmate. Cheilocystidia and pleurocystidia 50-80 x 20-40 m; widely lageniform, widely cylindric with a rounded apex, subsaccate, or sphaeropedunculate; sometimes mucronate or rostrate (see discussion above); smooth; hyaline in KOH. Pileipellis a cutis of elements 5-12.5 m wide, smooth, hyaline in KOH, under a very thin gelatinous matrix. Clamp connections not found.

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Lactarius aspideus

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Ecology: Mycorrhizal with willows, often in wet, grassy areas; growing alone, scattered, or gregariously; summer and fall; widely distributed in Europe, but not common. The illustrated and described collection is from Italy.

Cap: 2.5-5 cm; convex at first, becoming more or less flat, or shallowly depressed; sticky when fresh but soon dry; bald; whitish to pale yellowish; not zoned; the margin not lined.

Gills: Broadly attached to the stem or beginning to run down it; close; short-gills frequent; whitish to yellowish; stained lilac purple by the milk.

Stem: 2-3 cm long; 0.5-1 cm thick; equal, or slightly tapered to the base; without potholes; bald; whitish to yellowish; staining lilac purple; fragile; hollowing.

Flesh: Whitish; staining lilac when sliced.

Milk: White; fairly copious; unchanging when exposed to air; staining tissues lilac purple.

Odor and Taste: Not distinctive.

Spore Print: Undocumented by me; reported as "pale cream" by Heilmann-Clausen et al. (2000).

Microscopic Features: Spores 7-8 x 6-7 m; broadly ellipsoid or subglobose; ornamented with amyloid warts and ridges extending 0.5-1 m high; connectors fairly frequent, forming partial reticula. Macrocystidia narrowly fusiform; to about 65 x 10 m. Pileipellis an ixocutis; elements 2.5-5 m wide.

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Don't guess, don't use AI, don't look them up. I am quite capable of doing those things myself.

I want people with actual knowledge and experience only to answer this.

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#NewSpecies!
A newly discovered fungus from #china for #FungiFriday:

Lepiota pallidovelata

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AB78F897-AE31-5610-A4AB-5D80D36AF55A
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.133.186351
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Bajo el musgo brotan setas encantadas, faroles del bosque de lunas calladas.
Guardan en su copa secretos de hadas, puertas diminutas a tierras soñadas.

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Pluteus cervinus

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Ecology: Saprobic on the deadwood of hardwoods and, less often, conifers; occasionally appearing terrestrial but actually arising from buried deadwood; growing alone, scattered, or gregariously; spring through fall; common in eastern North America from about the 45th parallel southwards; also recorded from the San Francisco Bay area. The illustrated and described collections are from Illinois.

Cap: 4.5-10 cm; convex at first, becoming broadly convex to nearly flat, with or without a broad central bump; tacky when fresh, but soon dry, or slightly sticky when wet; shiny; bald, or finely scaly/fibrillose over the center; often radially streaked; dark to pale brown, often with a hint of olive or gray--or occasionally nearly whitish, with a brown to brownish center; the margin usually not lined, but sometimes faintly lined in older, diminutive specimens.

Gills: Free from the stem; close or crowded; short-gills frequent; white at first, becoming pink and eventually becoming deep flesh color.

Stem: 5-13 cm long; 5-15 mm thick; more or less equal, or with an enlarged base; dry; bald or, more often, finely fibrillose with brownish fibrils; whitish, discoloring brownish near the base; basal mycelium white.

Flesh: Soft; white; unchanging when sliced.

Odor and Taste: Odor not distinctive, or somewhat radishlike; taste usually at least slightly radishlike.

Chemical Reactions: KOH negative to very pale orange on cap surface.

Spore Print: Brownish pink.

Microscopic Features: Spores 6-8 x 4.5-6 ; ellipsoid; smooth; hyaline to faintly ochraceous in KOH; uni- to multiguttulate; inamyloid. Cheilocystidia abundant (though often collapsing); forming a more or less continuous strip; to 50 x 15 ; clavate to sphaeropedunculate; hyaline; thin-walled. Pleurocystidia 50-90 x 10-25 ; fusiform to widely fusiform or narrowly utriform; thick-walled; hyaline; with 2-5 apical prongs or hooks; prongs usually entire rather than bifurcated, rarely branched. Intermediate cystidia variously shaped. Pileipellis a cutis or ixocutis; elements 3-11 wide, hyaline to brown in KOH, smooth; terminal cells clavate to subclavate or cylindric; clamp connections absent.

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Cortinarius violaceus

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Ecology: Mycorrhizal with hardwoods or conifers; in western North America often reported as appearing in old-growth conifer forests near rotting logs; growing alone, scattered, or gregariously; fall; apparently widely distributed in North America. The illustrated and described collections are from Michigan and Oregon.

Cap: 4-12 cm; convex, becoming broadly convex, nearly flat, or slightly bell-shaped; dry; densely hairy, becoming fuzzy or scaly; deep purple, becoming brownish purple and eventually dark brown overall.

Gills: Attached to the stem; nearly distant; dark purple at first, becoming grayish to blackish, and eventually rusty brown; covered by a purple cortina when young.

Stem: 6-16 cm long; up to 2 cm thick; equal above a swollen or club-shaped base; dry; purple and finely hairy when young, becoming purplish gray to nearly black or brown, with a sheen; dry; becoming hollow.

Flesh: Purple to lilac or purplish gray.

Odor: Sweet and slightly fragrant, or not distinctive.

Chemical Reactions: KOH red on cap surface and on flesh.

Spore Print: Rusty brown.

Microscopic Features: Spores 11.5-14.5 (-18) x 7-9 m; ellipsoid to amygdaliform; moderately verrucose. Cheilo- and pleurocystidia fusoid-ventricose with a long neck, or sometimes irregularly cylindric; with purple to reddish contents in a KOH mount when fresh, but with brown contents after drying; up to about 80 x 25 m. Pileipellis a cutis with fascicles of upright elements.

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