Fungi Finds

09/18/2024

9/18/24 Mineral Springs Loop Trail Raccoon State Park PA

09/17/2024

9/17/24 Laurel Hollow Park Newell WV

09/17/2024

9/16/24 Tomlinson Run State Park

04/13/2024

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09/10/2023

If you cultivate a mushroom in a petri bowl on agar agar, its actual ′′ shape ′′ becomes visible. The essential part of a mushroom, the Mycel, is usually hidden from our eye. What we perceive as a ′′ mushroom ′′ is only its transient fruit body.
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08/29/2023

09/17/2022

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08/29/2022

Cortinarius iodes, commonly known as the spotted cort or the viscid violet cort, is a species of agaric fungus in the family Cortinariaceae. The fruit bodies have small, slimy, purple caps up to 6 cm (2.4 in) in diameter that develop yellowish spots and streaks in maturity. The gill color changes from violet to rusty or grayish brown as the mushroom matures. The species range includes eastern North America, Central America, northern South America, and northern Asia, where it grows on the ground in a mycorrhizal association with deciduous trees. The mushroom is not recommended for consumption. Cortinarius iodeoides, one of several potential lookalike species, can be distinguished from C. iodes by its bitter-tasting cap cuticle.

08/27/2022

Walk about on the Dalton & Craig's Branch Trail

08/26/2022

Strobilomyces is a genus of boletes. The only well-known European species is the type species S. strobilaceus, known in English as "old man of the woods.