masadler's Favourites
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Mushrooms, Bracket Fungi, Puffballs, and Allies (Class Agaricomycetes)Observer
t_tallhouse
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Mushrooms, Bracket Fungi, Puffballs, and Allies (Class Agaricomycetes)Observer
herrszur1
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Northern Tooth (Climacodon septentrionalis)Observer
tomzuckerscharffDescription
Black spores on lower mushroom
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Genus StereumObserver
masadlerDescription
First fresh fruiting S. ostrea of the year!
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Metuloidea fragransObserver
masadlerDescription
Odor is a deadringer for tonka bean. Vaguely cinnamon-esque, like Steccherinum subrawakense. But hymenium is poroid
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Boletes (Family Boletaceae)Observer
masadlerDescription
Taste mild
KOH orange on flesh, black on cap. Growing with hardwood (I think elm)
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Boletes (Family Boletaceae)Observer
masadlerDescription
Growing on elm, taste flavorful (though hard to describe how beyond 'mushroomy'), no stain, KOH red on cap and pores, negative in flesh
Stipe hollow and fibrous
Was growing 'downward' when I found it, which perhaps accounts for the odd pore shape?
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Genus TrametesObserver
masadlerDescription
Sticky on undersurface and smells like L. sulphureus
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Field and Button Mushrooms (Genus Agaricus)Observer
masadlerDescription
KOH yellow on stipe flesh, reddish yellow on cap and gills; ammonia negative on stipe flesh, yellow on gills and cap
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Genus TylopilusObserver
masadlerDescription
These yard animals keep destroying all my beautiful backyard boletes!
Last 3 photos ammonia (negative everywhere) penultimate 2 before that KOH (reddish pink on cap surface, yellowish pink on cap flesh, yellow on pore surface)
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Shelf Fungi (Order Polyporales)Observer
masadlerDescription
D. quercina growing around an old T. gibbosa?
Found other definite T. gibbosa on adjacent log
Did not bruise when touched
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Shelf Fungi (Order Polyporales)Observer
masadlerDescription
Growing on dead eastern hemlock
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Tyromyces galactinusObserver
masadlerDescription
Firmer than T. chioneus. Also are these possible 2 species on the same log?
KOH and ammonia both negative
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Boletus variipesObserver
masadlerDescription
KOH red on cap, brown on pores, negative to light pink on flesh
No taste/indistinctive
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Porcini and Allies (Genus Boletus)Observer
masadlerDescription
KOH amber brown everywhere
Taste indistinctive
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Amanita Sect. Lepidella (Section Lepidella)Observer
masadlerDescription
Growing directly under eastern hemlock, but within a hardwood's root distance too
KOH yellowish, green on cap
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Suborder AgaricineaeObserver
masadlerDescription
KOH yellow on cap, negative on gills; ammonia pinkish brown on cap, negative on gills
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Ball Gown Amanita (Amanita submaculata)Observer
masadlerDescription
KOH negative on cap and gills, faint greenish yellow on stipe
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Porcini and Allies (Genus Boletus)Observer
masadlerDescription
KOH greenish yellow on flesh, reddish orange on cap
Where these multiple species of bolete on the same stump?
2nd bolete: KOH and ammonia negative on flesh and pores, KOH reddish orange on cap, orange on purple part of stipe; ammonia negative to light brown on cap, negative to light brown on purple part of stipe
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Field Mushrooms and Allies (Family Agaricaceae)Observer
masadlerDescription
KOH amber on cap surface, yellow on flesh, negative on gills; ammonia negative everywhere
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Chestnut Bolete (Gyroporus castaneus)Observer
masadlerDescription
Last photo shows KOH on left of each segment, ammonia on right of each segment; both (virtually) negative everywhere, except KOH on cap, which turned yellow-ish
Stem cottony-hollow
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Genus ChalciporusObserver
masadlerDescription
3/last 4 photos KOH on left (pink on cap surface & flesh, negative on pores), ammonia on right (reddish brown on cap surface, negative on pores and flesh)
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Shelf Fungi (Order Polyporales)Observer
masadlerDescription
Both flat-pored and toothed?
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Artist's Bracket (Ganoderma applanatum)Observer
masadlerDescription
G. applanatum or lobatum? Was very hard, but hard to say if this is a new pore layer or cap
