Whitinsville Mushrooms
10/4/10
In the afternoon there was a break in the
rain so I decided to check my usual spots. This cold weather appears to be
what the puffballs like. Here are a group of Pear-shaped Puffballs,
about 1.5" high.
From my first impression of eating A.
muscaria, the button stage like this one is the best. This one had a cap
of about 2".
Revisited the stump with the tough little
mushrooms. They grew older and are no longer so tough. They appear
to grow out of cracks in the stump so are they growing out of the stump or the
dirt that accumulated in the cracks? Bill Neill thinks this is a Mycena of
some kind.
Underside
Spore print white. Larger spore
measured 8.6 x 4.8 microns
This one confused me for a while because I
never found it when it was mature.
Honey Mushroom aka Armillaria ostoyae.
They were growing
under white pine possibly off the root shown at top center and bottom left. The
largest cap is about 3".
Underside.
Spore print pale cream. Larger spore
measured 9.6 x 4.8 microns. Photo shows many undeveloped spores.