CA, Southern California, 20071024
Madison Heights, mushrooms.
Agaricus bernardii []
S side of Fillmore 2-3 houses E of Magnolia, in ring at base of peach tree.
Scleroderma areolatum []
W side of Oak Knoll, between Arden and (connector N of Arden), in lawn.
| | GEN | | small puffball, sev scattered closely in lawn near live oak |
| | CAP | | 30mm round, sterile base ~25x13mm| skin | | golden tan, smooth, densely covered with dark brown angular patches on the order of 0.2mm wide, ~0.1-0.2mm thin |
apical pore |
| | FLESH | | whitish but staining rufescent |
| | SPORE | | mass (powdery, capillitium?) dull brown, v spiny, v hydrophobic, 11.5-14um, spines ~1.5um long |
Spores are far too large to be any of the species of
Lycoperdon or
Vascellum described in
Arora.
Calvatia booniana []
Same lawn as before: N side of Fillmore between Los Robles and Madison. Still young, let's hope the owner doesn't chuck it again (fat chance).
| | GEN | | large puffball, in lawn, foul rotting odor |
| | CAP | | 40-130mm wide, perfectly round except for small root-like thing underneath, pale brown to whitish, broad thin flat plates, skin almost 1mm thick, disintigrating irregularly |
| | SPORE | | | mass | | brilliant ochre-yellow aging dingy brown, spongy soft, capillitium present, no structure |
brown, perfectly smooth, bubble or two inside, conspic knobbed, 4.7-6.2x3.3-4.3um |
Seems too small to be
C. booniana (and don't remember the other one being yellow hardly at all) but what else can it be?
Hebeloma []
W side of Oak Knoll, between Arden and (connector N of Arden), in lawn.
| | GEN | | med-large mush, scattered in lawn near yound live oak, mild odor |
| | ST | | 80x15-20, thickened at base, solid, brittle but w fibrous sheath, shiny, striate, covered w minute water beads |
| | CAP | | 60mm wide, broadly convex, smooth, very tacky, pale orange-brown, darker in center to nearly white near marg, small sterile margin curled under |
| | FLESH | | 6-7mm thick, v pale brownish, spongy, watery |
| | GILL | | pale aging flesh-colored, margins lined with minute water beads, strongly notched but not free, 5mm deep, close, not branched, hyphae parallel, can't find any cystidia (but can find plenty of basidia with 4 spores each) |
| | SPORE | | print brownish flesh-colored, ellip, min textured but not angular side-on or end-on, 10-13x5-7um, strongly pedicillate |
Sure looks exactly like the photos I can find on the web, but I just can't find these cystidia that are supposedly abundant on the edges.
Agrocybe pediades-group []
S side of Fillmore, just E of El Molino.
| | GEN | | med-small mushroom, scattered in lawn |
| | ST | | 50x4-6mm, thickening downwards, min scurfy above, v pale tan, shiny, solid, brittle, small hard bulb at base half buried |
| | CAP | | ~55mm wide, convex to almost plane, deeply cracked esp near marg, smooth, pale tan to brown, matte |
| | FLESH | | 1.5mm thick, pale tan |
| | GILL | | mottled brown, 4-5mm deep, thin |
| | SPORE | | print brown (too scanty for precise color determination), ellip-oblong, brown, smooth, 7.5-8.9x3.9-5.2um |
Panaeolus foenisecii []
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