| Mississippi Mushroom Foray |
[Aug. 22nd, 2008|11:20 am] |
We've been getting a lot of rain in the past few days, so the mushrooms are popping up everywhere. Here are some I've found in the past few days. A few of them I have keyed out to species name, and other's I could use some help on the ID. Our Mushroom's Demystified Key for Amanita is really confusing, so any insight y'all could give me on these possible IDs I'd greatly appreciate.
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| More MS Mushrooms |
[Jul. 30th, 2008|10:22 am] |
I've started a photo collection and library of mushroom species I find here at my lab. Most of our speciems are getting shipped off to Pharmacology so they can see if any interesting chemicals can be extracted from them after we identify them. In the past few days I've found a really cool Green spore printing parasol mushroom, and a common polypore both of which I include pictures of and key out to species level. I also took a cool up close picture of the pores of the polypore species with our dissecting microscope camera.
( pictures and IDs under the cut )
Expect more posts on this journal now that I'm in grad school and am working on making a good collection of MS mushrooms |
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| Grass Mushrooms |
[Nov. 14th, 2007|01:22 pm] |
I found another patch of those brown clump mushrooms today, and this time they were not as decayed:
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So I skimmed my Audubon field guide but nothing looks similar. Any idea what these could be? |
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| MSA, ATBI, and Cybertruffle |
[Aug. 30th, 2007|10:41 pm] |
I got the wonderful opportunity to attend the 75 annual Mycological Society of America meeting, early in August. I will be joining up officially this December and plan to make it to the next meeting at UPenn. I was wondering if anyone else on here is a member, and will be at the meeting.
Also I was curious to know if anyone here had any experience with organizing a bio-blitz with the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) Alliance. I'm interested in participating or helping to get one off the ground in the area, (or at least close to me) but I'd like some advice from anyone out there who is involved.
Thanks
Finally does anyone have any idea what happened to Cybertruffle? |
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| Ohio mushrooms |
[Mar. 19th, 2007|11:15 pm] |
Here is some pictures of fungi in the woods in Ohio I took this past week while I was visiting for Spring break. I could use some help in getting a better ID for them
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Deflated mushrooms
I'm not all together sure what these are, and looking through my field guild, I don't have the slightest clue still.
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Black Jelly Drops?
The closest thing I can see this resembles is Blugaria inqunans
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Coral fungi
A rather deteriorated piece of Coral fungi |
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Crowded Parcment
Stereum complicatum |
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Stereum complicatum again?
This is what my book says at least. |
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Mossy mushroom
I can't tell what this is because it is so covered with moss but it is very cool.
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Turkey Tails!
Trametes versicolor |
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White Polypores
Not quite sure what these are either. |
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| Mushrooms from Borneo |
[Feb. 7th, 2007|08:50 pm] |
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) fragile_alchemy just came back from her fieldtrip to Borneo where she got a lot of awesome fungi photos I wanted to share
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Any mycofriends out there who have a more extensive mushrooms of the world Field guide might wanna see if you can ID any of these cause none of them are showing up in my North American field guide. |
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| Mushrooms from BC |
[Sep. 27th, 2006|10:27 pm] |
We recently started our section on Fungi in my Algae and Fungi class, and since
learning about it in class, I have taken a keen interest to the subject of mushrooms.
Living in a rainforest is a great opportunity to see all sorts of cool look
specimens of mushrooms, so today, with the weather finally holding up well enough
to be outside, Puppyborkhone; and I went for a
walk outside in the woods behind my dorm looking for specimens of mushrooms.
( Here are the pictures of some of the mushrooms we found. ) |
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| Clathrus columnatus |
[Sep. 19th, 2006|10:10 pm] |
I found this mushroom yesterday on my way to class, and had to share. I am 99.9 % sure it is Clathrus columnatus . It smelled really bad and was growing among some wood chips in the landscaping around one of the acedemic buildings.
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Its a fairly rare find, and I was really pleased to find it. Such vibrant color in it too. |
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| Mississippi Mushrooms |
[Aug. 6th, 2006|09:01 pm] |
Pending ID
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Strange yellow Fungus
Found Aug 6, 2006, along the trail at Camp Special in Dixie MS, in pine straw. |
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Strage Yello Fungus 2
Found Aug 6, 2006, along the trail at Camp Special in Dixie MS, in pine straw. |
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Polypore mushroom 1
Found Aug 6, 2006, along the trail at Camp Special in Dixie MS, in pine straw. |
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Top of Poly Pore Mushroom
Found Aug 6, 2006, along the trail at Camp Special in Dixie MS, in pine straw. |
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Underside of MS mushroom
Found Aug 6, 2006, along the trail at Camp Special in Dixie MS, in pine straw. |
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| Updated Mushroom List |
[Jun. 29th, 2006|09:05 pm] |
Here are the mushrooms I was able to identify.
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1.Lentinus crinitis
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2. Lentinus crinitis
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5. Trametes sp.
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7. Trametes versicolor
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9. Polyporus tuberaster
Edible mushroom. Size 5-20 cm width stem up to 8 cm 1.5 cm widh
Found in hardwoods often on calcereous soils, causes wood decay |
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10. Polyporus tuberaster
See other picture |
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12. Ganoderma lucidum
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Leotia lubrica- Jelly babies
small pestle-shaped rubber fruitbodies. 2-5 cm in height .3-1 cm in width. Damp woodland among leaf-litter and moss for habitat. |
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23. Pycnoporous cinnabarinus- Cinnabar bracket
Could also be P. sanguineus |
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24. Marasmius sp.
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30. Xylaria sp.
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Schizophyllum sp.
used as chewing gum in some places. Grow on sun baked or winddried wood. |
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Collybia dryophila
Found in woods or open grassy sites |
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Trametes sp.
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Auriculariaceae sp.
Gelationous nature of the flesh is a characteristic of this genus.
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Lentinus sp.
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Stereum sp.
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| Mushrooms from Belize |
[Jun. 1st, 2006|09:52 pm] |
Hello Fungus fans!
Complied here are my pictures of fungi from Belize.
For my final project in my tropical ecology class I am assembling a list of different mushroom speices you would encounter in Belize and Centeral America, so I could really use some help iding them.
I made notes about some of the images and have identifed a few already. If you need any further information to make a postitive Id, let me know cause I did take notes down about some of them. I don't need a definite speices Id, genus will work.
Thanks in advance for any and all help y'all can supply.
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curious
cheerful
