CA, Southern California, 20060826
Madison Heights, fungi.
Chlorophyllum molybdites []
In lawn on Magnolia between Fillmore and Alpine. These from west side two magnolias from the south end. Also appear to be the same thing on the other side a couple of houses north.
| | GEN | | medium mushroom, lawn, several scattered fairly close but not clustered, mild to sl unpleasant odor |
| | ST | | 70x12-20mm, whitish fading faint brownish, smooth, sorta irreg bulbous at base with funky transverse ridge spiralling up| ring | | one, pendent but flaring at bottom, fairly thick at marg |
fragile and brittle but fibrous |
| | CAP | | 40x35mm, narr cyl-bell shaped (still button), marg curled in and touching stem, whitish matte except for rimose smooth lt brown patch in ctr 30mm or so wide, ragged marg |
| | FLESH | | 4-5mm, whitish, bruises faint but obvious pink slowly |
| | GILL | | white in button becoming livid greenish, close, free, brittle but fibrous |
Agaricus "shiny small smooth" []
In lawn at SE corner of Fillmore and Marengo.
| | GEN | | small mushroom, lawn, scattered widely, barely poking above grass, nasty harsh/bitter odor |
| | ST | | 50x5mm, even, silky-smooth, sl brittle but v fibrous, solid, cap-colored, v faint ring sl > half |
| | CAP | | 40mm, convex, v silky-smooth, pale yellish brownish, somewhat black striate at marg |
| | FLESH | | off-white, to 2mm at ctr, v thin, soft, fibrous, not brittle, no bruise |
| | GILL | | deep choc brown, v free, ~2 per mm, v thin, clean, fragile |
Chamaesyce serpyllifolia hirtula []
In sidewalk on S side of Fillmore halfway between Marengo and Magnolia.
| | GEN | | prostrate herb, sidewalk cracks in full sun all day |
| | LF | | narr oblong, obtuse, rounded to trun oblique base, sharp coarse serr, v finely sp strig bel |
| | STIP | | thread-like, sep both sides, v short |
| | INFL | | 1-few in axils, strig, gland v min greenish| apps | | min white to pinkish, < 1mm wide, some faintly scalloped |
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| | FR | | d strig, sharp keeled, ov, 2mm |
| | SEED | | 1mm, ov, reddish, square in x-sect, transversely wrinkled, v finely sp min strig? |
In peren it keys to
C. vallis-mortae, if annual
C. serpyllifolia hirtula. The former doesn't belong here. I don't remember seeing (or
not seeing for that matter) this spring, so I doubt it's perennial.
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