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Carita
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 12:10 am    Post subject: Help to ID Reply with quote

I found this mushroom west of Sooke in my daughter's yard. Can anyone help to identify it?

http://www.PhotoShare.co.nz/PhotoShareGallery1/100675/103234/Unknown5576_S.jpg

http://www.PhotoShare.co.nz/PhotoShareGallery1/100675/103234/Unknown25678_S.jpg

I put a cap on paper, hoping for a spore print but what I got was a volume of yellow liquid, a dreadful odour, and now it looks like this.

http://www.PhotoShare.co.nz/PhotoShareGallery1/100675/103234/DriedCap7570_S.jpg

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Carita
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 11:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hello Carita!

Well, at a glance I am not too sure about what you have there. It might help if we knew what the structure underneath the cap was like. Were there gills? pores? If so, what color.

And is that last pic a photo of the underside of the cap? or a dried version?
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Carita
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 4:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi, thanks for replying. There were no gills. The interior looked like a dark yellow sponge of some sort......not like the boletes.......more like a truffle. I put the cap on heavy white paper and a large quantity of yellow liquid spread out from under it, with a rather nasty odour. After sitting for several days, all that was left was the third picture. I've researched it and have found nothing that comes close to a description of it. Still looking Shocked
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 6:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hmmm, the inside looks like cutting open a old puffball.

From the picture, it looks like you have a mushroom that has been attacked by another patristic fungus..maybe some sort of mold.
This would explain the smell and the looks of the last picture.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 8:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was going to say that- a fungus on a fungus!! From the looks of the photo it does look somewhat gone over!!

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Carita
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 11:53 am    Post subject: Another one Reply with quote

Hi Folks,

Thanks for the replies. I found another one of these critters on a beach trail. Rather different in appearance to the two I posted but almost identical to another one from the original batch I found. Certainly the same putrid odour!

http://www.PhotoShare.co.nz/PhotoShareGallery1/100675/103234/Unknown-18344.jpg

http://www.PhotoShare.co.nz/PhotoShareGallery1/100675/103234/Unknown-23321.jpg

I believe they are a puffball of some sort. I brought the cap of this one home and the underside is now yellow. When I find out what it is, I'll post it here.

Cheers,
Carita
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morelboy
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 1:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi Carita,
This looks like you have found Boletes that have been infected with
Golden Hypomyces mold.
At this stage it is unlikely that anyone could determine the species of the bolete.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 3:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Good call morelboy

Did some more looking around and found some info on it here:
http://www.bluewillowpages.com/mushroomexpert/hypomyces_chrysospermus.html
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Carita
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 3:54 pm    Post subject: Thanks to all! Reply with quote

Thank you for all the help with this strange item. I checked the Mushroom Expert site and moved on to many others as a result of the identification of the Hypomyces chrysospermus. I came across several images that resembled the ones I found. Indeed a fungus on a fungus!

Cheers,
Judy
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peterthinks
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 4:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

well look out for them next year and try to get to the bolettes before the parasite does...they're a nice heavy mushroom good for bulking up stews and such.here's a few pics of some I found

http://members15.clubphoto.com/peter627123/2761663/guest.phtml

Peterthinks
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