Armillaria gallica (2)
When I first saw this mushroom I thought it was red potatoes sticking out of the root ball. But it wasn’t and I am not sure what it is. I have now decided that it is the normal Honey Mushrooms growing around here. As it matured the hairy center of the cap and coloring matched the earlier specimens I had found. I picked and cooked a batch tonight and the cooked up and tasted the same also. The red coloring when they were young fooled me.
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Armillaria gallica (2nd variety)
Type: Unknown and OddballsCollection date: 09/27/2008
Name: Armillaria gallica (2nd variety)
Common Name: Honey Mushrooms
Description: Brown Mushroom with white flesh growing on the root ball of a Shagbark hickory on the wood. 5 - 10 cm wide stem about as long as cap is wide. Cap convex shaped. Smell very mushroomy. Stem swollen at end. Gills attached to stem.
Edibility:
Color: Brown
Size: 5 to 15cm
Cap type: Convex
Gills: Broadly Attached
Stem type: Tapering Upward
Flesh: white non-discoloring
Texture: Flesh fibrous
Veil: partial-persistent
Ring: membranous
Volva: none
Mycelium:
Spore color: White,cream,yellowish
Habitat: Grows in woods
Habitat2: Grows on wood
Habitat3: Hickory
Xerula radicata (Oudemansiella radicata)
I have been watching these mushrooms come and go for at least two weeks, but I have never found a good, unchewed on specimen. I finally gave up and just collected these and studied them. They have been growing on and off around an old beech stump. It is notable for its long tap root.
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Xerula radicata (Oudemansiella radicata)
Type: GilledCollection date: 09/28/2008
Name: Xerula radicata (Oudemansiella radicata)
Common Name:
Description: I have observed this mushroom growing around a beech stump for 2 or 3 weeks. I have been waiting for a good specimen – something likes it and eats it as soon as it comes up. It is a tall brown mushroom. The gills are white and widely spaced. The cap looks wet and glistening. The stem is very long and woody, there is a long tap root.
Edibility: Edible/inedible depends on who you ask
Color: Brown
Size: 5 to 15cm
Cap type: Convex
Gills: Notched Attachment to no attachment
Stem type: Tapering Upward
Flesh: white
Texture: Flesh fibrous
Veil: none
Ring: none
Volva: none
Mycelium:
Spore color: White,cream,yellowish
Habitat: Grows in woods
Habitat2: Grows on the ground attached to wood
Habitat3: Well Rotted Beech
Boletus bicolor
Earlier in the summer these mushrooms were quite common. Yesterday I found a big (about 15cm across) boletus bicolor but is was already filled with maggots. Today I found the three small ones pictured to the right. They are normally much bigger than these three.
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Boletus bicolor
Type: BoletesCollection date: 09/28/2008
Name: Boletus bicolor
Common Name:
Description: This bolete (common earlier in the summer) can grow up to 15 cm in size. The top is red and the pore area is yellow. The pore area bruises blue. The flesh is yellow bruising blue slowly. Found under oaks and other hardwoods.
Edibility: Questionable
Color: Red, yellow pore area.
Size: 5 to 15cm
Cap type: Conical
Gills: No Gills
Stem type: Tapering Upward – red, yellow near cap
Flesh: yellow bruising slowly blue
Texture: Firm
Veil: none
Ring: none
Volva: none
Mycelium:
Spore color:
Habitat: Grows in woods
Habitat2: Grows on the ground
Habitat3: Oak Beech
Coprinus micaceus
This little mushroom sprouted up on the root ball of a downed Shagbark Hickory. In the pictures to the right it is the smaller mushroom. The cap is about 1/2 inch across and the stem is several times that long. The notable thing about this mushroom is the inky black gills.
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Coprinus micaceus
Type: GilledCollection date: 09/27/2008
Name: Coprinus micaceus
Common Name: Glistening Inkcap
Description: Small mushroom. Brown convex cap with black gills. Plain white stem about twice as long as cap is wide. Flesh is white. Growing in a group. Found growing on the wood in the rootball of a fallen Shagbark Hickory.
Edibility: Suspect/Unknown
Color: Brown
Size: Less than 5cm
Cap type: Convex
Gills: Barely Attached
Stem type: Equal
Flesh: white non-discoloring
Texture: Flesh fibrous
Veil: none
Ring: none
Volva: none
Mycelium: brown
Spore color: Purplish to Black
Habitat: Grows in woods
Habitat2: Grows on wood
Habitat3: Hickory
Armillaria gallica
I saw this mushroom yesterday coming up around the base of a couple beech trees and just thought it was the normal honey mushrooms I have been seeing. But on closer inspection it was a different variety. the major difference is that these have a bulbous base to the stem and the Armillaria mellea have a tapered base. These were also growing at the base of beech trees and the other preferred oaks. These mushrooms are also said to glow in the dark. I will have to check it out.
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Armillaria gallica
Type: GilledCollection date: 09/25/2008
Name: Armillaria gallica
Common Name: Honey Mushroom
Description: This honey mushroom differs from the Armillaria mellea variety in that the base of the stem is bulbous. The mushroom is brown with a scaly top. The gills run down the stem and it has a fleshy ring. The spore print in white.
Edibility: Edible with caution
Color: Brown
Size: 5 to 15cm
Cap type: Umbilicate
Gills: Running Down Stalk
Stem type: Club-Shaped
Flesh: white
Texture: sort of dry
Veil: partial-membranous
Ring: membranous
Volva: none
Mycelium: black
Spore color: white
Habitat: Grows in woods
Habitat2: Grows on wood
Habitat3: At base and under Beech