CA, Southern California, 20080730
Madison Heights, flower and lichen.
Psathyrella? []
On northwest corner of Fillmore and Magnolia, just north of the second magnolia.
| | GEN | | small mushrooms, densely clustered in close-cropped lawn, not even rising above grass |
| | ST | | hollow, 40-50x4-6mm, white, shiny, smooth to fainly floccose, contorted at base where it emerges from matted grass roots, somewhat flexible but delicate and fibrous, not snapping cleanly |
| | CAP | | 15mm wide, conical to bell-shaped, delicate, dry, smooth or with brownish particles when young, buff to brownish, irreg subtly folded/pleated, margin irreg erose and splitting easily, cuticle cellular and possibly an epithelium, cells round (13)15+/-2(17)um (n=7) |
| | VEIL | | partial veil leaving movable membranous ring, ring disappearing quickly on many |
| | GILL | | pale whitish when young, adnate, close, no pleurocystidia| cheilocystidia | | sl oblong balloons on narrow stalks, (8.8)10+/-1(13)x(11)14+/-4(22)um (Q=(0.54)0.75+/-0.13(0.88)) (N=8), some encrusted with tiny clear colorless granules |
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| | SPORE | | dk brown, irreg oblong, smooth, brown, some texture inside| germ pore is nearly invisible if it is in fact there | | there is a slight thinning of wall near one end if you focus just right, (7.1)8.2+/-0.6(8.8)x(4.2)4.7+/-0.3(5.1)um (Q=(1.5)1.7+/-0.1(1.9)) (N=11) |
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Looks very
Coprinus-like, but ring sort of rules it out. I'm wondering if this is the same thing I saw yesterday. No, different cystidia and spores.
Ganoderma lucidum []
On base of oak on northeast corner of Fillmore and Magnolia. It is really growing into a healthy specimen this year. Clear not Phellinus like I thought because the cap surface is highly varnished/polished like Ling Chih.
| | SPORE | | print cinnamon clearly visible on lower cap surface |
Agaricus comtulus []
In lawn on south side of Fillmore halfway between Magnolia and Euclid.
| | GEN | | small mushrooms, scattered but reminiscent of ring, quite a few, in lawn, fairly strong industrial/medicinal odor |
| | ST | | 30-40x4-6mm, fibrous, tough but snapping, not hollow, staining amber-yellow at base, K+ bright golden yellow all over stipe, smooth, whitish to watery orange-brownish |
| | CAP | | up to 40mm wide in maturity, most smaller, becoming broadly convex to almost plane, dry, smooth, shiny, pale buff to sl brownish and some with faint yellowish cast, K+ yellow but very weak on cuticle, very little or no sterile margin |
| | VEIL | | partial, leaving very weak thin ring material on upper stipe |
| | GILL | | free, turning chocolate brown, etc. |
| | SPORE | | print presumably brown |
Agaricus comtulus []
In lawn on southeast corner of California and Marengo. Same as above but no obvious yellow staining at base when bruised, and milder odor.
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