CA, Southern California, 20070929
Pasadena, two mushrooms.
Psathyrella candolleana []
Scattered in lawn on S side of Magna Vista, about midway between ends. (Over by Pasadena High School.) Sharing lawn with scattering of Psathyrella candolleana.
| | GEN | | medium mushroom, quite a few scattered in lawn |
| | ST | | 50x3mm, whitish, smooth with few remnants of wispy cobwebby fibrils esp on marg, shiny, fragile, fibrous, even |
| | CAP | | 30mm or even a bit larger, conic to somewhat convex, smooth, pale buff to honey-buff in center |
| | FLESH | | v pale brownish, 1mm, fragile |
| | GILL | | notched, dingy light brown, 4mm deep, not esp close |
| | SPORE | | print dark chocolate brown, oblong to sl bent, often sl trunc on one end, brown, smooth, 7.1-8.2x3.9-4.7um |
On closer inspection, these show signs of being
Psathyrella candolleana themselves, just bleached a bit by a day in the sun (yesterday, presumably). Checked the spore print color against the photo from
20070325, and from the print I still have from
20070928. It is definitely a darker less chocolatey (less reddish) brown; the spores are sl longer; the cap is more conic (less domed); margins less flared out; no signs of fibrils on stem (could just be lost in handling). However,
Arora clearly lumps them both together.
Funny story: the owner of the lawn in question apparently saw me taking pictures. Several minutes later, apparently having chased me halfway across Pasadena, he pulled me over and while taking pictures of me and my friend's car with his cell phone asked me what it was all about. Apparently the house across the street had been burglarized the day before. I'm not sure what he expected, but certainly not the truth. I guess a real perp wouldn't burst out laughing and start showing him pictures of mushrooms!
Agaricus xanthodermus []
On Canon Drive, S side, about midway down from Oak Knoll, under small bay, in hard-packed bare dirt. Classic specimen.
| | GEN | | large mushroom, solit, under bay |
| | ST | | 50x18mm, solid, smooth, white, firm, bruising bright amber-yellow at base, medicine-like odor when crushed, large skirt-like ring near top |
| | CAP | | convex, smooth, white, 70mm, dry, bruising yellow, discoloring brown with age |
| | FLESH | | 15mm, white, firm, bruising faintly yellish |
| | GILL | | pink when first mature, free, close |
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