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Wind



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 11:48 am    Post subject: Mysterious wild mushroom... Reply with quote

This solitary mushroom was found a the West Coast forest. Please help me identify it.

The spore print is cinnamon rusty brown, the cap is grey-tan and is 5-cm in diametre, it smells fruity, the stem is 5-cm long (fragile, stains tan) but the most distinctive features are the frilly gills, and fluted edge. The cap appears torn and is very solid. It is convex. The flesh is light salmon coloured. The gills are not attached.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 3:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Do you have a pic or more details? It may be some type of Cortinarius, they have brown spores.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 10:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I do have 2 beautiful photos but they are not online, so I cannot show you.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 8:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I dont know what species it is, but from the description, especially the spores it *might* be in the Cortinarius genus.

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 10:38 am    Post subject: Mysterious wild mushroom... Reply with quote

I have provided pictures to go along with my description of the mysterious wild mushroom I found in a West Coast forest last week. I sure hope this helps identify it...

http://photos.yahoo.com/lizgreengroove
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 10:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yahpoo says that album access is Restricted.

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 2:12 am    Post subject: Mysterious wild mushroom... Reply with quote

Sorry about that. I have changed the Yahpoo! Photos setting to public so now anyone can see my photos. Thanks for caring
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 7:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Strange mushroom you have there, I can't put a ID on it with any of my books, but it looks like the mushroom has mutated for pushing under something when growing.
Hmmm...anyone else have any ideas?
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 12:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Its got me stumped as well, from the piccy it looks like a Pleuteus but from the spore print color- it cant be(Pleuts mostly have pink spore prints)

I'll keep looking.

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 10:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm still consulting my guides, I'll have my slightly educated guess soon.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 3:01 am    Post subject: Mysterious wild mushroom... Reply with quote

Thank you so much for helping me out with this identification! The mushroom was growing alone at the base of an evergreen, and had come up through some moss, but other than that did not appear to be pushing against anything else. It was perfectly formed, and standing waiting to be worshipped.

Wind
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 12:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

From your photos, I would say this is definitely not a cortinarious.

Based on what the photos indicate, the umbo [knob] on the cap, also the cap is showing splitting radially, and the color of the spore print I would have to say this an Inocybe, but I can not give you the exact name.
This is a non-edible!
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 3:53 pm    Post subject: Mysterious wild mushroom... Reply with quote

Thanks for keeping my mushroom quest alive. I think it is an Inocybe as well! Perhaps a Grayish Inocybe, but I cannot seem to find a photograph of one yet. I am hoping to go to a "book library" tomorrow and find out more info on them. I will let you know...

PEACE WIND
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was thinking of Inocybe as well but I too can't get an positive ID.

As a rule, most Inocybe's aren't edible and without a microscope are difficult to positively id as well.

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 4:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can't find a match in my guide. The inocybes in my book don't have that inturned margin or the wavy gills
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