Code: HMA8
Habitat: Associated with live oak
Growing in moist soil
Macro-observations:
Black but some were a grayish black. Some were saddle shaped but most were irregularly lobes.
Surface smooth/slightly wrinkled. Almost rubbery.
Margin were sometimes attached. Some were incurved.
Underside: was a lighter color than top surface. Ribbed slights but smooth. More so gray in color.
Stipe: very deeply ribbed
White/pale gray (depending on specimen), smooth, base is white or lighter in color.
Flesh: very thin
Micro-observations:
Spores are 9 microns, elliptical or more so rounded, smooth
Collection Code: MBB1
The observed cap was 4 cm wide but measurements common to this species are anywhere from 5-15 cm broad
Cap was slightly velvet feeling
The cap was flat and the color was dull green, orange spots, and with cream discolorations
The observed cap was centrally depressed
The flesh was brittle and white
Gills were white, close, and adnate
The observed specimen’s stalk was 3 cm long but common in this species is 3-9 cm long and 1-3 cm thick.
The stalk was brittle and white
It produced a spore print that was mainly white with a slight yellow cast
The spores were elliptical but almost entirely round
The spores are amyloid (positive Melzer’s reaction)
The spores have amyloid warts with ridges
This mushroom was found growing in the soil and above the ground (epigeous) under an oak tree and in solitary
Found in Lowndes County, GA at Grassy pond
Code: HMA2
Habitat: on fallen log of dead hardwood (found in fall)
Macro-observations:
Cap:
dark olive to olive-yellow or golden yellow (depending on maturity)
2.5 cm across
Slightly depressed
KOH reaction turned brown-red for a split second
No bruising
Darkens a reddish tinge when dried
Gills:
Attached, short, close, golden yellow/orange, darkens a reddish color when dried
No bruising
Odor: faint
Taste: N/A
Spore print: white
Stipe: finely grooved; hollow; yellow, thicker towards base, very flat
Micro-observations:
Spores: 5 μm; smooth; ellipsoid; inamyloid
I identified this species as Lacrymaria velutina that is often referred to as a synonym to Lacrymaria lacrymabunda but those spores are more smooth than what was observed.
Ecology: Saprobic, growing alone or gregariously, observed in a set of two along paved trail in the woods near recently dead hardwood trees in the fall.
Cap: 4-5.5 cm; broadly convex, dry, medium yellowish brown in the disc, fading to dull tan; the margin lightly undulate with white partial veil remnants.
Gills: Narrowly attached to the stem, close short-gills frequent, grayish brown to dark brown.
Stem: 3.5-6 cm long; 4–7 mm thick, equal, slightly fibrillose with a fragile ring or a ring zone that is darkened by spores. White above, pale brownish below and hollow.
Flesh: Dark, dull brown; unchanging when sliced.
Spore Print: Very dark brown to black.
Microscopic Features: Ellipsoid to subamygdaliform with a large pore, coarsely, moderately verrucose. Reddish orange in water, brown in KOH and reddish brown in Melzer's.
WSL 2
Sporocarp 8-9mm in length
Dark brown/Grey
Growing on dead oak
Spore mass brown and powdery
Spores ejected through apical pore, made after outer layer disintegrates
Capilitium absent when observing spores
Spores globose with prominent spikes and inamyloid
Spores 5 micrometers in diameter
EGC 2022
Associated with oak and pine
Light brown with areolate cap
Partial veil remnants on underside of cap, especially young mushrooms
Hymenium in tubes and pores
Darker brown than cap
Tube layer clearly separating from cap
Wrinkled stipe with no annulus
Same color as cap
Spores 17.5 x 7.5 microns
Ellipsoid
Heavily striated
Found scattered nearby pine and hardwood trees in the fall season at Grassy Pond at Valdosta, Georgia
2.5 cm broad, centrally depressed cap, surface not viscid, brownish-cinnamon color, margin wavy
Mild odor
Gills thick and well-spaced, pale pinkish color, gills adnexed
Stipe 4.5 cm long, 5 mm thick, equal, tough and twisted, reddish-brown stipe, slender, white mycelium at the base
Spore print white
Spores 7.5 um and round with small spines
Found on fallen hardwood branch
Slightly fuzzy but tough upper surface with white gills on the underside
Upper surface fan shaped, white and tan striping ranging in intensity of color
Some pine straw from neighboring trees grown into it
Found on rotting hardwood branch
Dull brown upper surface with cream margin, white pore surface underneath
Pore surface had no reaction to scratching
Tawny brown in color
Stem bases fused together
Found near oaks in a large cluster
Cap approximately 9 cm and braodly convexed in shape
Light brown gills slightly running down ( subdecurrent) curved stalk
Stalk tan/ pale grey colored and bruising dark brown
Spore print white; spores approximately 7.5 x 10 u, broadly ellipsoid, smooth, inamyloid, with Hylar's appendage
Spore print white
EGC 91022 E
Cap and stipe dark brown
Lighter brown around edges of cap
Cap approximately 10 mm
Small spikes on cap
Hymenium on underside in wrinkles
Associated with oak and pine
Spores ellipsoid slightly globose
7.5 x 6 microns
DNA was also sequenced and returned. After using BLAST, it was decided that the species was Craterellus carolinensis
Mushroom is brown
Contains attached gills
Gills are also brown
Gills are wavy
Contains a stipe
Stipe is also brown
Has white spore print
Could not obtain a spore pictures
cap-warted, tan to pale brown
hymenium-gillis
DNA analysis supports that this is Hyndellum earlianum
Mushrooms Demystified keys this out to Hydnellum aurantiacum. It describes a white growing margin on the cap surrounding an otherwise orange center, and prominently warted spores with a brown spore print
In the comments it says Hyndellum earlianum is found in eastern North America under hardwoods, and has a nearly smooth cap
-Found solitary on stump (dead wood)- Saprobic
-Upper surface is pale tan, almost fleshy colored
-Upper surface is smooth, but folded in multiple locations
-Laid flat on wood with more or less central attachment to the stump
Mushrooms Demystified does not key out this species, But "Mushrooms of the Gulf Coast States" by Bessette, Bessette, and Lewis offers details that agree; intricately folded, pale tan, upper surface, and smooth, but ridged lower surface
On Acer rubrum bark
N.M.P 3
Macro-observations
Cap: 2 in broad buff in color with a tint of pink. cracked with scales that are buff in color. Slight velvety with depression in the center. Margin not striated
Flesh is white no color changing
Stipe: 1.5 in long white in color smooth
Gills: white, fairly closed together. Adnexed gills
Habitat: found near hardwood. in soil. Found alone
Micro-observations:
Spore white but very faint
Spores amyloid with warts. round to ellipsoid in shape
Size: 6.25-7.5x 5-7.5 microns
Elliptical spores
Gills
Collar like volva
Warts on pileus
Amyloid spores
No annulus
Stipe and flesh are white
Gills are adnate
Stipe is thin
Spores are about 7.5 micrometers
(Possibly longipes)
CAM
Found near bottom of hardwood stump
Grew in clusters;on stump
Cap: 4-5 x 4.5-5 cm, dullish brown- brown in color, lumpy
Height: 3-4 cm
Pores are white and when bruised, turn brownish color
Spore print: reddish/yellowish brown to regular brown color
KOH: Turns black instantly
Melzer’s Iodine: turns dark brown color
Spore size: 4-6 x 2-3 microns
Ellipsoid shape with rough apperance and look double walled
When cut, inside was dark brown color
No smell
-Found near Live Oak
-Grey cap
-About 4cm broad
-Plane, with slight central depression
-Margin deeply striate
-White stipe
-About 7cm long, 1cm thick
-Lacking annulus
-Smooth, but slightly scaled at base
-Fragile volva, which came off when I rubbed dirt off
-White gills
-Free from stipe
-White spore print
-Spores smooth, slightly elliptical, 10 um x 8um
Notes from Mushrooms Demystified:
-Striate grey cap, white gills, and absence of annulus all agree with my findings
-One difference is the spore shape, Mine are more elliptical than round (which actually fits better with A. constricta, but A. consrticta is only found in the western United States)
Stem height 2.5cm, width 5cm
Dry and yellow cap with purple edges (may be discoloration)
Spore print white
Found growing alone out in the open
N.M.P 2
Habitat:
Found in open field like in a ditch
Various similar ones scattered around
Macro-observations:
Cap: around 2.5 in, grayish in color, remnants on top, striated on the edges
Volva may have been present but poor handling of it from the ground
Gills: white in color, free to slightly attached to stalk
Stalk: whitish with no annulus, kind of with brownish scales
Micro-observations:
Spores 10 x 12.5 u
smooth
inamyloid
spore print white
DNA sequence identified upgrade from Amanita to Amanita roseotincta
-convex cap
-stipe missing
-beige like color
Found near a live oak in sandy soil.
Reddish-yellow stain when cut and in KOH
Old musty smell when cut open
Peridium unusually thick
The surface has flat scales and a pseudo stem present
Dark brown, somewhat firm spore mass (beginning to turn powdery)
spores approximately 7.5x7.5 u, brown in color, surface with minute spines, and partially reticulate
JSL 2
-Cap
4-5cm
Has many warts
Color is olive brown to a light brownish
-has white to cream white gills
-Stipe
is indistict but have potentially had a volva when younger
About 5.5cm
Cream white to brownish color
-Habitat near conifers
-Spore
Spore print white
Spores globose to subglobose
About 8.5-10 micrometers
texture: smooth
With apical pore
Found in South Georgia (Freedom Park)
Found in pine straws underneath pine trees
Powdery
Cap and stipe have wart/scaly-like appearance
Cap and stipe is white with a tan/pink/light orange powdery covering
Universal veil present - pinkish in color
Bulbus base
Annulus not present
Free gills
Did not bruise/stain
White spore print
Sweet odor after drying it out
Spores were globose and had hilars appendage
Spores were hyaline in KOH