NC, Smokies, 20060626
CabinCove, road, mostly fungi.
Hypomyces?
On right side of road just before reaching clearing w mailbox; in soil.
| | GEN | | mushroom, in soil, solitary, v sweet odor |
| | ST | | club-shaped, white, pinkish stains bel, solid, thicker bel, 80x15-30mm, firm but brittle, not fibrous at all, no latex, no volva or ring, smooth |
| | CAP | | 30x35mm, conic w broad rounded top, sordid pinkish greyish brownish cottony surface over viscid translucent layer of jelly |
| | FLESH | | white, firm but brittle, 3-4mm thick |
| | GILL | | gills? pores? nothing?, white cottony layer under cap |
Must be a parasitic mold on a
Russula.
Russula grisea?
On right side of road shortly before Langdale's branch joins in; on moss.
| | GEN | | med mushroom, in moss, odor and taste of gills and flesh v mild |
| | ST | | 50x15mm, thicker bel, white, no bruise, fragile, soft, snaps cleanly, solid |
| | CAP | | 60mm wide, concave, sl viscid, v def greenish with gunmetal grey tones near heavily striate marg and irreg yellowish blotch in ctr, smooth |
| | FLESH | | white, fragile, to 5mm thick, doesn't bruise |
| | GILL | | adnate, 1 per mm or so, unbr, clean, creamy white, to 5mm wide |
| | SPORE | | print white, colorless, 1-cell, round-ellip, knobbed, 5.5-6um, sticking in irreg blobs |
Marasmius orange?
This is the dried specimen I collected a week or so ago. I placed it on the deck railing in the rain and it recovered and started producing spores(!)
| | GEN | | small mushroom, on rotting hardwood, not clustered |
| | ST | | 40x2-3mm, dk reddish brown to almost black, scurfy (probably was velvety at one time), tough but flexible |
| | CAP | | 35mm, convex to concave and torn, dry, yell to reddish brown, min scurfy |
| | GILL | | v dist, forked, cross veins underneath, yell, white dust of spores visible at 30x, v notched |
| | SPORE | | print white, colorless, 1 cell, smooth to depressed sides (dry), ellip-cyl, v few knobbed, 7-8x3.5-4.5um, not staining in KOH |
Marasmius "small white"
This is the dried specimen I collected a week or so ago.
Myelochroa galbina [voucher]
On live white ash bark in field below cabin along trail to Mitchell's Wall; wet from rain for last several days any pruina, for example, will have been long lost.
| | GEN | | foliose lichen, on living maple bark |
| | THAL | | lobes flat, thin, tightly appress, to 2-3mm wide, sl overlapping, not long and narr, some short black rhiz showing from bel esp in axils, black or dark thin showing from bel along marg, lt grey-green w bleached spots and yellowish tints showing through from medulla, old parts w scattered white and green mottling, young parts perfectly even and smooth, dk brown or black bel to tan at v tips w v d v sh black unbr rhiz, rhiz become v min at edges except at axils where they remain long and become visible from ab, K+ yell, C-, KC- |
| | MED | | v thin, cottony, white to distinctly pale yell next to algal layer, C-, K+ yell turning orange to even red in thickest places |
| | APO | | tiny to huge round lecanorine disks, to 6-7mm wide, shiny red brown when dry to vivid olive green when wet, perfectly smooth, perfectly even smooth thin lt grey-green ring around marg, disk thin but edges ascend a bit, v striking |
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