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 |
| | VEIL | | partial veil leaving movable membranous ring, ring disappearing quickly on many |
| | GILL | | pale whitish when young, adnate, close |
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.
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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