malacothrix's Identifications
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kem_lutherDescription
This was found by Rolf Mayerhofer and Steve Fischer in the hill around Merritt. It appears to be what locals call the "lightning mushroom" or "thunder mushroom."
Spores are elliptical, about 8X4 microns, surface smooth or roughened, no visible cystidia.
Smell is sweet--identical to the smell of Pleurotus ostreatus/pulmonarius.
Gills are crowded, easily removable with a thumb push.
Flesh is dense. Pale spore print
Field pics by Steve Fischer, picked mushroom photos by David Walde, used with permission
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jarenjarenDescription
HAY-F-004367
Ingahee Rd at valley floor where the forked river island sits just west of the road. Across the south bank of southern creek, 5’ from water.
Cedar, pine, fir, alder, oaks and maples and moss.
Cedar stump, maple and cedar trwigs.
Wood substrate.
No odor, did not taste.
Did not KOH.
UV bright green on stem and blue on cap.
Found within inches of orange bonnet. Gills light brown compared to cap which is pale white. Stipe and cap translucent.
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Common Gilled Mushrooms and Allies (Order Agaricales)Observer
angelinamireles0
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scottostuniPlace
Arapaho & Roosevelt National Forests Pawnee National Grassland, Idaho Springs, CO, US (Google, OSM)
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alison_pollackDescription
Found by @csueastbaymycology and @warren_cardimona, mostly inside decomposing pine log, in snowmelt area
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bitDescription
WEW019 Was collected by Bitty Roy and Keyyana Blount on Feb 3, 2015 at Big Spires Prairie, which is a restored native prairie near Fern Ridge Reservoir, Lane County, Oregon. The fungus is terrestrial and grass associated; the grass present was Festuca roemeri (native). This prairie had been burned a few months earlier, in the fall of 2014. No trees were nearby.
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