Yard Mushrooms
10/4/10
Fairy Ring Mushroom aka Marasmius
oreades.
These mushrooms were growing in amongst the lawn grass in a form of an arc of
about 4.5' in diameter. The smallest cap was about 5/8" wile the largest
was 1 5/8".
Here are the smallest.
A pair that are older older.
Top of the oldest - 1 5/8" cap.
Gills on the old one, shown above.
Top of another.
Gills on the one above.
Side
Stem of the largest.
Spore print was white. Spore measured
7.7 x 5.8 microns
A group of common puffballs.
This one looked different. It had
dimples like a golf ball. All were very young and pure white on the
inside.