NC, Smokies, 20071115
CabinCove, two mushrooms.
These were under the eastern white pine by the 1850's sign.
Amanita muscaria formosa [] [voucher]
| | GEN | | large mushroom, many scattered, under eastern white pine |
| | ST | | 100x15-25mm, bulb at base, white, fibrillose esp so even sl shaggy below ring, becoming hollow in age, flesh unchanging, straight except for little hook under bulb, central |
| | CAP | | to 80-100mm wide, bell in button to hemisphere to plane to even sl uplifted in v old specimens, vivid golden yellow all over to yellow-orange in center, striate for ~10-15mm near marg, marg often splits irreg esp when dry or old, covered with 1-3mm wide pyrimidal brownish white warts that wash off easily in rain, viscid and slimy when wet but drying readily (often with needles sticking to it) |
| | FLESH | | white, to 5mm thick, flexible, fragile, unchanging |
| | VEIL | | | universal | | mostly visible as warts on cap, also concentric rings of scales on bulb |
| partial | | superior skirt-like ring on stalk, white, smooth above, shaggy-fibrillose below, some yellow globby bits clinging to margin presumably from universal veil |
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| | GILL | | white, erose marg, close, free, t0 7mm deep |
This must be the same thing I saw on 20060525, which I call var. persicina. The ones from today show no sign of peach whatsoever.
| | GEN | | medium mushroom, sev small to large clusters, under eastern white pine |
| | ST | | 15-25x8-10mm, yellow, lots of brown glandular dots, solid, staining reddish brownish slowly, often at least sl off-center |
| | CAP | | to 50-60mm wide, convex to plane but almost always convoluted, v slippery and viscid, yellow with brown indistinct splotches and few to lots of red streaks and dots |
| | FLESH | | pale yellow, staining reddish brownish slowly, somewhat spongy, thin at margin to 10mm thick near center |
| | VEIL | | partial, very slight, just leaves cottony remnants hanging from margin, no sign on stalk, very easy to miss |
| | PORE | | bright ochre-yellow, adnate to sl decur, irreg angular, often more than 1mm long but never more than 1mm wide, arranged radially at least near stalk, about 5mm deep |
| | SPORE | | print yellowish brown |
These appear to be being crowded out by the Amanita. They used to fruit throughout under this pine; right now they are confined to one edge. See also 20060718.
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