Please help identify pennsy shrooms

[Dave W]

Previous post... three tannish mushrooms are Amanita amerirubescens, the American blushing amanita. Photo with one gray mushroom and some small red ones. Gray mushroom may be a species of Lactarius. Does a liquid seep from the cut gills? Little red ones are a Hygrocybe, maybe H. cantharellus. Last three photos show a gray mushroom which is Megacollybia rodmanii, formerly called Tricholomopsis platyphyllum.

Latest post... Looks like you got several types of bitter Tylopilus. I think maybe T. rubrobrunneus, T. violatinctus, and T. plumbeoviolaceus. These types are difficult to tell apart. The pink gilled mushroom is an Agaricus. I think this is one of the Agaricus that will make you sick... A. placomyces or A. pocillator. Niote the many small dark scaled on the cap. What does it smell like? Does the flesh in the base of the stalk turn yellow when cut?

A good beginner's book for PA is...

http://www.amazon.com/Field-Mushrooms-Pennsylvania-Mid-Atlantic-Keystone/dp/0271028912

A good book for a more advanced mushroom hunter in PA is...

http://www.amazon.com/Mushrooms-West-Virginia-Central-Appalachians/dp/0813190398

[noahashwarts]

Can I get any help with these? Found them in my garden...mulch and horse dung fertilizer.. eastern pa.. also, the spore print is jet black the gills are a dark black or brown with white edges.

[Dave W]

If growing on dung, or dung fertilized soil, and the spore print is pure black, then these are likely Panaeolus cinctulus. If the print shows even a hint of brown or purple, then they're probably Panaeolina foenisecii. Get a nice thick print. Collecting at least partially on a black background is a good idea. The contrast of brown/purple against the black contrasts with pure black which virtually disappears against black.

[Scot]

Agaricus and coral

[Dave W]

An Agaricus species, and Tremellodendron pallidum.

Some Agaricus species are good edibles, but others are sickeners. Most of the sickeners have a medicinal or phenol odor which is somewhat unpleasant.

[Scot]

Happy Independence Day!!!

[Dave W]

Red polypore is pycnoporus cinnabarinus.

White spreading stuff... I don't know these types very well.

White mushroom... interesting. Size? On wood, forest floor, cultivated ground, lawn, wood chips? I think I may see a volval structure at the stem base. Is there the remains of a membranous sack? Gills appear to be free of the stalk, or almost so.

[Scot]

The small one was growing on the forest floor. It is about 1.25 inches in diameter. I tried to collect the entire mushroom, unfortunately it snapped off. Thanks

[Scot]

some little stuff

[Dave W]

Small brown mushrooms in latest post are probably a species of Gymnopus. The bowl-shaped ones on the log are Galiella rufa.

[Scot]

I need to work on my photography. Some are blurry, but here they are: Thanks

[Scot]

I wonder if I'm going something wrong, not finding much edible stuff. Here are some little mushrooms from around the yard. The grey stemmed one were under a pine. Thanks

[Dave W]

Brown with closely spaced white gills and no stalk... looks like Lentinellus ursinus.

Tannish mushrooms with widely-spaced gills looks like Cotinaruis distans.

Bolete is interesting. Looks to be a bit immature, so some traits may be undeveloped. I don't recognize the species. Any staining on the pores or cut flesh?

Latest post... little mushrooms in first photo, one Inocybe (scaly stem) and some Entolomas.

Last mushrooms (3 pics) I don't recognize... maybe Gymnopus? Spore print color may help.

[Scot]

The Gymnopus has a brown spore print. Today, my luck improved. I took a walk on state forest within walking distance from my house, seemingly identical habitat. I found more Lactarius Indigo than I could ever possibly hope to collect. It is not choice, but I have something for the frying pan. A little coconut oil and salt would even make dog ###### taste delicious. Here is some other stuff:

[Scot]

I found this strange little mushroom along the wood line of my property. It has a sticky cap, and it seems to have a long root:

[Dave W]

The mushroom with brown spore print is not a Gymnopus, which have white (or at least very light) colored prints. maybe a Psathyrella/ How dark was the brown print?

Two posts up:

1. Looks like Volvariella bombycina. I think I can faintly make out the cup-like membranous volva at the base of the stalk. It appears to be somewhat buried in the wood.

2. Lentinellus species (stalkless gilled mushrooms).

3. Amanita species from section Vaginatae. These types --with the membranous volva and ringless stalk-- are sometimes called grisettes.

4. The two photos of these small mushrooms with decurrent gills are out of sequence. It's a species of Xeromphalina, small wood-inhabitors with cross-veined decurrent gills.

5. Red-capped gilled mushroom is a species of Hygrocybe.

6. Red-pored bolete, possibly Boletus subvelutipes. There are other possibilities for the species name.

7. Gerronema strombodes. http://www.mushroomexpert.com/gerronema_strombodes.html

Post directly above is a species of Hymenopellis. These are difficult to ID to species. H. furfuracea is probably the most common species of these. H. megalospora is also common.

[Debra]

Can anyone identify these mushrooms which seemed to appear overnight after 3 days of cols and rain this Memorial weekend? Poconos Wayne county. https://photos.app.goo.gl/RkeJQ3CZGchTHRFa7

[Jeff Falcone]

On 6/8/2015 at 8:38 PM, Dave W said:

Yeah the ticks... 😞 The deer ticks (most dangerous ones) have subsided around here. I got bit this spring and it looked kinda infected. So even though I have been immunized against Lyme disease (only 90% effective) I contacted my physician and he called in an anti-biotic script. Now there's these large brown ticks that have become active, dog ticks I think. They don't seem as willing to bite as do the deer ticks. I was in the Poconos last Saturday and picked up 4 of them on a 3 mile walk. Permethrin works pretty well, but I didn't have on my treated clothing. Usually by mid June there's no worries about ticks unto they stage a resurgence in October.

Spore prints taken on paper can form along with moisture absorbed from the mushroom by the paper. This can cause the color to appear darker than normal. Non porous surfaces work best. Some people use aluminum foil.

Careful Dave. Protection from the previously marketed lyme vaccine which was discontinued in 2002 is know to fade over time and according to the cdc you likely don't have any remaining immunity.

 

https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/prev/vaccine.html

 

it's a shame that there's currently no vaccine available. two are in phase 2 trials.

 

if memory serves the reason the previous vaccine didn't sell well enough to stay on the market is there was uncertainty about it's efficacy and it was thought that the immunity was very short lived.

[Dave W]

Thanks, Jeff. I didn't know this about the lyme vaccine. I am still very careful, as the vaccine was said to be only 90% effective even at the time I received it.