Fistulina hepatica
I found this mushroom one fall day as I was going on my daily walk. I did not have anything to carry it back with and left if for the next day. Sigh, some woodland creature beat me to it. Its gone now. It was bright red and I was looking forward to trying it to eat.
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Fistulina hepatica
Type: PolyporeCollection date: 11/20/2008
Name: Fistulina hepatica
Common Name: Beefsteak Polypore or Ox Tongue
Description: Bright red shelf mushroom with white pore surface. It was growing on a dead log.
Edibility: Choice
Color: Red, Redish, Pink
Size: Over 15cm
Cap type: Fan shaped
Gills: No Gills
Stem type: Lateral, rudimentary, absent
Flesh: Flesh Discolors when cut
Texture: Flesh fibrous
Veil: none
Ring: none
Volva: none
Mycelium:
Spore color: Pink
Habitat: Grows in woods
Habitat2: Grows on wood
Habitat3: Dead Oak
Exida Alba
This white gelatinous fungus looks somewhat like white brains on the log. It is almost moist to the touch. I have seen it widely distributed over the woods the past weeki.
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Exida Alba
Type: Jelly FungiCollection date: 10/17/2008
Name: Exida Alba
Common Name:
Description: I have been seeing this mushroom for about a week and finally got around to cataloging it. It looks like white globs of gelatinous fungus. I have seen it on various downed logs: beech, walnut and oak. It is also known as Ductifera pululahuana.
Edibility: Unknown
Color: white
Size: 5 to 15cm
Cap type: No cap just globs
Gills: No Gills
Stem type: Lateral, rudimentary, absent
Flesh: flesh white
Texture: Flesh Slimy or sticky
Veil: none
Ring: none
Volva: none
Mycelium:
Spore color:
Habitat: Grows in woods
Habitat2: Grows on wood
Habitat3: Fallen Beech walnut oak
Cortinarius subpulchrifolius
This mushroom has a silver purplish cap with an orange (some say rusty brown) spore print. The purple was most evident along the margin of the cap and the gills. I found it under a large oak with many beech nearby almost down in the stream area. It is also classified as Cortinarius alboviolaceus sometimes.
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Cortinarius subpulchrifolius
Type: GilledCollection date: 10/17/2008
Name: Cortinarius subpulchrifolius
Common Name: Silver-Violet cap
Description: This mushroom was silverish with bluish/lavender tint especially around the margins of the cap. The gills were more lavender colored. The spore print was orange. I found it growing under an oak tree with many beech in the area.
Edibility: Choice
Color: Violet, Purple
Size: 5 to 15cm
Cap type: Convex
Gills: Notched Attachment
Stem type: Tapering slightly Upward
Flesh: flesh cream to tan
Texture: mushroomy
Veil: none
Ring: none
Volva: none
Mycelium:
Spore color: orange
Habitat: Grows in woods
Habitat2: Grows on the ground
Habitat3: leaf liter oak beech
Scleroderma citrinum
This little puffball look alike should not be confused with regular puffballs. It is poisonous. It usually grows alone on the ground and its interior is black.
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Scleroderma citrinum
Type: Puffballs and othersCollection date: 10/14/2008
Name: Scleroderma citrinum
Common Name: Earthball, False Puffball
Description: This is a small puffball shaped mushroom. It grows on the ground, usually alone. The interior is blackish at maturity.
Edibility: Poisonous/Suspect
Color: White with brown spots
Size: 2-10cm
Cap type: round
Gills: No Gills
Stem type: Lateral, rudimentary, absent
Flesh: Black
Texture: Flesh granular or brittle
Veil: none
Ring: none
Volva: none
Mycelium: white
Spore color:
Habitat: Grows in woods
Habitat2: Grows on the ground
Habitat3: bare ground Beech Oak Hickory walnut
Amanita citrina 1
This white mushroom is also called the False Destroying Angel because when young it looks like a Destroying Angel. However, when older brown patches show up on its top.
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Amanita citrina
Type: GilledCollection date: 10/11/2008
Name: Amanita citrina
Common Name: False destroying angel
Description: This white gilled mushroom with ring and volva resembles the Destorying Angel when young. As it gets old it can take on a yellowish tinge with brown spots. The bulb sometimes cleft resembling cleft-foot amanita.
Edibility: Poisonous/Suspect
Color: White to Cream
Size: 5 to 15cm
Cap type: Convex
Gills: Free
Stem type: Tapering Upward
Flesh: white
Texture: Flesh granular or brittle
Veil: partial-membranous
Ring: membranous
Volva: saclike
Mycelium: white
Spore color: White,cream,yellowish
Habitat: Grows in woods
Habitat2: Grows on the ground
Habitat3: Oak Beech Maple