NC, Smokies, 20060705
CabinCove, JP, flower and two fungi.
Spiraea japonica []
Flowering shrub under powerlines.
| | GEN | | shrub, in open disturbed areas |
| | LF | | alt, lance, long acum, wedge, biserr, rugose ab and all veins r bel, lter bel, glauc bel, min gland punct ab?, cil on marg and veins bel, 90+35+4mm |
| | INFL | | large showy d corymb, d pubesc w hairs curled up and in |
| | SEP | | 5, join, lobes 1.5-2mm & delt & spread, total 4-5mm wide, d pubesc |
| | PET | | 5, free, obov, hot bluish-pink, 2x2mm, spread |
| | STAM | | 20mm, well excl, about half as many min pink gland apps in a row inside |
Clitocybe gibba? []
Just as Jason's path ends.
| | GEN | | med mushroom, scattered on moist shady rotten conifer, mild sweet odor, no bruise or sap |
| | ST | | 30x5-6mm, sl off-white, stuffed to solid, bends without breaking at all, translucent mush around base (it's been raining maybe that used to be mycelial fuzz?) |
| | CAP | | 60mm, concave to shallowly vase, smooth, pale flesh-colored, dker in center, min erose marg, min raised veined right at marg |
| | FLESH | | soft, 1-2mm, creamy |
| | GILL | | v decur, creamy, 2 per mm or so, short, a bit wavy, unbr |
| | SPORE | | print snow white, smooth, ov-ellip, obtuse ptd one end, 1 cell, colorless, 5x3-3.5um, sticking liquidly |
Very unsure of species:
Arora doesn't cover
Clitocybe very thoroughly
esp. small "boring" whitish ones.
Collybia dryophila? []
Near end of false lily-of-the-valley field, scattered on soil and mossy v rotten wood under hemlocks.
| | GEN | | small mushroom, scattered to loosely clumped, on mossy rotten wood and soil under conifers |
| | ST | | 45x4-7mm, much wider at top, whitish ab to golden to yell-buff to med-dk-golden-red-brown bel, smooth, tough, splitting but not breaking, hollow, straight |
| | CAP | | 10-35mm, convex, smooth, yell-buff to yell-brown, smoothly shading dker toward ctr but abrupt light v min erose marg, not striate |
| | FLESH | | 1-2mm, watery pale, soft but not brittle, bending but not breaking |
| | GILL | | notched to free, whitish, 4-5 per mm, clean, straight to wavy near stalk, unbr, 2-3mm long |
| | SPORE | | print snow white, ellip-oblong, colorless, smooth but depressed on one side, 1 cell, 5x2.5um |
Jesus, here we ago again. See notes from
20060612 and
20060614.
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