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Myco-update...
Nov. 6th, 2011 08:07 pmMost of my activity with the camera yesterday was in video mode, so I could capture what people were saying about the mushrooms that were being found. After about four or five shots, the video mode inadvertently got switched from a reasonably clear 640x480 size to a murky 160x120 size.
I got something of an education in gilled mushrooms, although one of the participants found a rather large specimen of something that resembled an aspen bolete, and we encountered a number of old Suillus specimens.
It was a day for mostly Cortinarius and Tricholoma, although I did run across some other specimens as we walked through the Edgewood Oak Plains Preserve, including a large white mushroom that was identified to me as an Amanita polypyramis (and which I did an inadequate job of photographing), and a small, dainty white mushroom that my gut immediately told me was a member of the Amanita family. The fellow I exchanged emails with about the outing (and whose knowledge of mushrooms appeared to be encyclopedic) identified the following specimen as an Amanita citrina
At the beginning of the outing, it was all I could do to find anything, which explains photos such as the following:
Eventually, I started to see what others were seeing. I even found a rather impressive white mushroom that makes me think "matsutake." There were Cortinarius mushrooms aplenty, including this specimen of what was identified as Cortinarius sanguineus:
This kind of outing is a first for me, and I enjoyed it thoroughly.
Cheers...
P.S. The mushroom I found in the back yard that LJ friend![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
vuzh tentatively suggested was a blewit was almost certainly that, as several identical-looking specimens were being examined by the group when I joined it at 10 am.
I got something of an education in gilled mushrooms, although one of the participants found a rather large specimen of something that resembled an aspen bolete, and we encountered a number of old Suillus specimens.
It was a day for mostly Cortinarius and Tricholoma, although I did run across some other specimens as we walked through the Edgewood Oak Plains Preserve, including a large white mushroom that was identified to me as an Amanita polypyramis (and which I did an inadequate job of photographing), and a small, dainty white mushroom that my gut immediately told me was a member of the Amanita family. The fellow I exchanged emails with about the outing (and whose knowledge of mushrooms appeared to be encyclopedic) identified the following specimen as an Amanita citrina
At the beginning of the outing, it was all I could do to find anything, which explains photos such as the following:
Eventually, I started to see what others were seeing. I even found a rather impressive white mushroom that makes me think "matsutake." There were Cortinarius mushrooms aplenty, including this specimen of what was identified as Cortinarius sanguineus:
This kind of outing is a first for me, and I enjoyed it thoroughly.
Cheers...
P.S. The mushroom I found in the back yard that LJ friend
vuzh tentatively suggested was a blewit was almost certainly that, as several identical-looking specimens were being examined by the group when I joined it at 10 am.
