Intended to document some of the local diversity of mushrooms and other fungi in this location. Best veiwed with Firefox.
Primary Location: Southern St. Louis County, Minnesota, USA 20 miles north of Duluth, MN 47 N 92 W
Inventory of 2013 available here
Inquiries to gene.kremer5(AT)gmail.com
common name
scientific name | date | location/substrate;cap;gills;stipe;spore print;microscopic notes; comments | ... | right-click /view image for detail
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Leucoagaricus leucothites (naucina)
saved -yes
spore print - white
Collector: Barb Crow | 2016-10-02 D | in grassy area; cap 2-8 cm, white, convex, "lumpy" when young, staining brown at edge; gills free, white, loose; stem 3-9 cm, smooth, white, with white membranous ring, swelling to base. |  |  |  |
Helvella crispa
saved -yes
spore print -
Collector: Sherry Rovig | 2016-10-02 C | on ground in pine/mixed woods; cap 2-4 cm, white, broadly saddle shaped/irregular; underside smooth, white; stipe 3-5 cm x 1-2.5 cm, deeply ribbed with cross veins. |  | |
Suillus intermedius
saved -yes
spore print - dull yellowish brown
Collector: Barb Crow | 2016-10-02 B | single on ground in pine/mixed woods; cap 7 cm light yellowish-orange with few streaks; pores yellow, small, non-bruising; stipe 8 cm x 1 cm, yellow with dark glandular spots, ring remnant evident as brown mark; cap mildly acidic |  |  | |
Entoloma abortivum
Aborted Entoloma
saved - eaten
spore print -
| 2016-10-02 A | group on ground in pine/mixed woods; white, irregular some shaped like involuted and rounded fruiting bodies but without gills. |  | | |
Coltrica cinnamomea
saved -yes
spore print -
| 2016-09-24 B | single on ground edge of mixed woods; cap dull tan 3 cm, zonated with brown, very thin fleshed, dry, papery; pores tan/brown extending down stipe; stipe 3 cm x .4 cm, reddish brown, tough-fibrous. |  |  | |
Leccinum snellii
saved -no
spore print -
| 2016-09-24 A | single on ground edge of mixed woods; cap dull brown, convex 6 cm x 3 cm high; pores white, fine, staining light brown; stipe dark grey scabers on white background, 6 cm high
x 2.5-1.5 cm tapering to apex. |  |  | |
Pholiota granulosa
saved -yes
spore print - yellow-brown
| 2016-06-11 D | Small group on decayed birch log; cap 1-2 cm, broadly convex, yellow with fine darker scales, edge with small fragments of veil; gills yellow-brown, attached, close; stipe 1-2 cm x 2 mm, fibrous with brown membranous ring, curved from substrate to bring cap horizontal, |  | | | |
Lacrymia sp.
id by MO Alan Rockefeller
saved -yes
spore print -
| 2016-06-11 C | On ground in mixed woods; cap 1-2.2 cm, brown with darker spots, smooth, edge inrolled; gills loose, adnate, purplish-brown; stipe 2.5-6.5 cm x 2-8 mm, tan/brown, irregular fibrous patches, equal.
Comment: stature is a small cap on a long, thick stipe. |  | | | |
Pleurotus populinus
aspen oyster
saved -no
spore print -white
| 2016-06-11 B | Shelving on dead aspen; cap 2-10 x 3-15 cm, white, wet; gills white, wide, attached laterally without stipe; odor of anise distinctive. |  |  |  | |
Pluteus cervinus
saved -yes
spore print -
| 2016-06-11 A | On pine stump; cap 3.5 cm, tan becoming brown, with slightly darker umbo; gills free, loose, pinkish-tan darkening with age, soft, loose; stipe 3 x .5 cm, pinkish-tan, smooth, slightly bulbous at base with white mycelium. |  | | | |
Gyromitra escualenta
False morel
saved -yes
spore print -
| 2016-05-14 A | On wet ground in mixed woods; cap 4 x 5 x 4 cm, irregular, brown, free edge, saddle shaped; stipe 4 x 1.3 cm, tan/gray, equal.
Comment: according to Walt Sturgeon, G. infula which is this shape, is a late summer species. |  |  |
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Armillaria mellea
Honey mushroom
saved - no
spore print - white
| 2015-09-15 C | On ground near stump; cap 3-7 cm, yellowish, planar with inrolled edge, brownish scales to center; gills nearly distant, attached, covered by membranous partial veil with yellow ringwhen young; stipe 4-8 cm x .5-1 cm, yellowish, brownish scaled. Edible. |  |  |
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Lactarius thyinos/salmonicous
delicious group
saved - no
spore print - white
| 2015-09-15 B | On ground in mixed woods; cap 5 cm, orange, zonate, concave; gills orange, latex orange, slowly losing color (not greening); stipe 5 cm x 1 cm, orange, equal. Edible. |  |  |
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Hypsizygus ulmarius
'Elm' oyster
saved - yes
spore print - white
| 2015-09-15 A | On hardwood stump; cap 3-9 cm, white, smooth, convex, edge downturned; gills attached, white, close; stipe 4-8 cm x 2-3 cm, white, smooth; taste not distinctive, odor pleasant. Edible. |  |  |
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Daedalopsis confragosa
saved - yes
spore print - no
| 2015-08-09 B | On downed wood, single shelf; cap 11 cm X 1.5-3.5 cm, dark brown, zonate, finely velvety; false gills on underside, light brown; basal attachment. |  |  |
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Amanita fulva
saved - yes
spore print - white
| 2015-08-09 A | On ground in moss, solitary; cap 5.5 cm, white becoming brown to center umbo, smooth; gills free, white, close; stipe 10 cm, white, smooth, without ring, saccate vulva on slightly bulbous base. |  |  |
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Lentinellus cf. vulpinus
saved - yes
spore print - white
| 2013-10-11 A | group on ground? in woods; cap 2.5-5.5 cm, planar with depressed center, tan becoming dark brown, very finely hairy, with white spores from above; gills adnate to decurrent, tan, close, edges serrate; stipe 2-3 cm x .5-1 cm, tan, fibrous, hollow, equal; spores 6 x 8.5-9 mk, amyloid, with warts. |  |  |
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Elfin Saddle / False Morel
Gyromitra infula
saved - yes
spore print - no
| 2013-10-11 B | on ground in woods; cap brick red, convoluted, 8 cm high x 5 cm wide; underside/inside tan; stipe ireggular, 4 cm x 3 cm, hollow. |  | |
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Pleurotus cf. dryinus
saved - yes
spore print - white
| 2013-10-11 D | caespitose, compact cluster and individual on stump; cap 4-15 cm, loosely convex becoming almost planar, white to greyish tan, weakly areolate but not hairy or velvety; gills white, decurrent with a notch; stipe 3-8 cm x 1-3 cm, central to eccentric, white; smell weakly anise, taste not distinctive to mildly acrid. |  |  |
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Yellow Fairy Fan
c. Barron Spathularia flavida
saved - yes
spore print - no
| 2013-09-16 A | linear group in pine needle duff; spatulate 1 cm heads pale yellow; 2 cm stipe white to pale yellow. |  |  |
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Spongipellis pachyodon
saved - yes
spore print -
| 2013-09-16 B | on decayed hardwood log; toothed polypore 5-11 cm x 3-5 cm, soft, white, wet 'tissue paper' top; lower surface toothed, white, soft |  | |
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Chanterelle
key Kuo "Cantharellus cibarius"
saved - no
spore print - no
| 2013-09-16 C | on ground in mixed woods including red pine; cap 3-7 cm inverted cup, yellow, some irregular; false gills decurrent and well developed, orangish-yellow; stipe 3-5 cm x .5-1.5 cm |  | |
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Amanita vaginata group cf. crocea
saved - yes
spore print - white
| 2013-09-16 D | group in path in mixed woods; cap 3-6 cm yellow-tan oac716, caked with gray veil remnant, cm of edge striate; gills free, white, entire; stipe 5-13 cm tapering from 1.5 cm base to .5 cm apex, white, fibrilose with tan markings, minimal sac-like volva turning grey at top |  | |
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Lentinus sp.
saved - yes
spore print - white
| 2013-09-16 E | growing out of crack in decayed wood; cap irregularly toroid...rounded on outside except for notch in direction of stipe with depressed center, tan background with very many small vinaceous fibers but not hairy, edge somewhat inrolled; gills attached, close, white turning pale yellow, edges serrate; stipe bifurcated holding two caps (or two grew together?), 8 cm long flattened .5 x 1 cm., hollow; taste mild (like shitake)[? spores smooth, inamyloid?] |  |  |
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Lentinus strigosus
saved - yes
spore print -
| 2013-09-16 F | on wood in caespitose groups; funnel shaped cap 2-5 cm tan, zonate, hairy; gills decurrent, tan, close, entire; stipe 1 cm to absent. |  | |
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Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca
saved - yes
spore print - cream
| 2013-09-16 G | on ground in pine needle duff; cap funnel shaped, 2-5 cm, bright orange darker in depressed center; gills decurrent, close, orange, forked near edge; stipe 3 cm x .5 cm, central / eccentric when arising from bottom of log, vinaceus, hollow, base extending into the wood; KOH > light greenish. |  |  |
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Xeromphalina / Mycena leaiana
saved - yes
spore print -
| 2013-09-16 H | multitude on decaying log; cap convex .3-.8 cm, orange, convex; gills subdecurrent, orange, loose; stipe hairlike, brown, 1-3 cm |  | |
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Lactarius cf. uvidum
saved - yes
spore print - white
| 2013-09-16 I | on ground in mixed woods; cap 3 cm hygrophanus, pale violet/gray with subtle zonation, depressed center; gills white , exuding white latex that does not change color, stains gills violet-purple; stipe 3 cm x 1 cm, white, equal, brittle; flesh does not color on cutting | 
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Pholiota cf. terrestris
saved - yes
spore print - brown
| 2013-09-16 J | on ground in mixed woods; cap 1.5-4 cm, yellow brown, dry, becoming planar; gills attached, tan becoming dark brown; stipe 3-5 cm x .4cm tapering to base, some caespitose, tan, fibrous |  | |
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Mycena albidula
ref Arora in notes similar to M. capillaris
saved - yes
spore print - no
| 2013-09-16 K | small groups on leaf litter in mixed woods; cap 3-9 mm, white, convex; gills notched, distant, white; stipe 15 mm x 1 mm, white |  |  |
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Ischnoderma resinosum
saved - no
spore print -
| 2013-09-16 L | on standing birch tree; top 30 cm x 15 cm zonated brown shelf with white edge; bottom white extending vertically down the trunk to another shelf, pores if present too fine to be seen; pleasant farinaceous smell. |  |  |
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Tipler's Bane
Alcohol Inky Cap Coprinopsis atramentaria
saved - yes
spore print - black
| 2013-08-18 A | In clusters in woody path in woods; cap 2-3.5 cm x 3-4.5 cm high, light buff with blackening edge, egg shaped with umbo, lacking shiny bits and more gray and larger than C. micaceous; gills free, close, blackening from bottom; stipe 6-8 cm x .6 cm, white, ring or volva absent; spore print black. |  |  |
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| Slippery Jack Suillus americanus
saved - yes
spore print - cinnamon
| 2013-08-18 | Clusters on ground with Red Pine/mixed woods; cap 3-12 cm convex to planar, bright yellow with brownish/reddish spots, especially along edge, hygrophanous, soft; pores 2 mm slightly radially arranged, yellow becoming brown; stipe 4-8 cm x 1 cm, yellow with brown glandular dots; spore print cinnamon brown |  |  | 
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| Suillus cf. granulatus
saved - yes
spore print - redish brown
| 2013-08-18 C | singley or small group by white pines; cap 3-10 cm, broadly convex, buff when young becoming streaked with brown, small veil remnant on edge; pores small, pure white when young becoming pale yellow; stipe 3-5 cm x 1.5 cm, white with glandular dots. |  |  | 
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| Lactarius ? determinus (deliciosus group)
saved - no
spore print -
| 2013-08-18 | On ground in mixed woods; cap 7 cm orangish buff, depressed center, subtle zonation, moist; gills buff with green edge (bottom edge of cap), decurrent/vase shaped, no latex stimulated; stipe similarly colored staining green. |  |  |
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saved - yes
spore print -
| 2013-08-18 E | on ground in mixed woods; cap 1.5-2.5 cm, tan, inrolled edge, depressed center; gills loose, light vinaceous, subdecurrent; stipe 3-7 cm x 2-3 mm, streaked brown, fibrous. |  | |
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| Psathyrella sp.
saved - yes
spore print - black
| 2013-07-29 A | on ground/path in woods; cap 3 cm white with brown center, striated, dark edge; gills finely adnexed, close, purplish brown; stipe 3 cm, white above ? missing veil, white with daker marks below, fibrous, hollow |  |  |
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Turbinellus/Gomphus floccosus
at MushroomExpert
saved - yes
spore print - deep yellow
| 2013-07-29 B | multiple vase-shapes on common base, 1-5 cm across top, 3-7 cm high, thick, white fleshed, orange in depressed top, yellow on deeply decurrent sides. |  |  | 
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| Auriscalpium vulgare
saved - yes
spore print -
| 2013-07-29 C | on pine cones; cap brown with fine hairs, 1.5-2 cm, tounge-shaped from eccentric stipe; gills toothed, tan; spipe near edge of cap, brown, 4 cm, hairy |  |  |
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| Birch/Bog Bolete Leccinum holopus
saved - no
spore print - brown
| 2013-07-29 D | In boggy woods; cap white, round/convex, 5 cm x 2 cm high, greying slowly; pores white, small; stipe white with scabers, 9 cm x 1.5 cm tapering slightly to apex, solid; 'bolete' smelling.
keyed from Bessette |  |  |
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| Lactarius splendens
saved - yes
spore print - creamy white
| 2013-07-29 E | group on ground/moss among pines; cap orange, 2-3 cm, small umbo in depressed center; gills cream, somewhat loose, adnate to subdecurrent, exuding white latex which does not change color; stipe similar orange/brown, 2 cm x 3-4 mm, smooth, flexible; mild taste/odor. |  |  |
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Gymnopolis liquiritae
saved - yes
spore print - ochre
| 2013-07-29 F | on wood; cap 2-3 cm orangeish tan, wrinkled planar; gills soft, orangish brown, attached; stipe 3 cm tan, fibrous, hollow |  | |
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| Russula cf. fragrantissima
saved - yes
spore print - cream
| 2013-07-29 G | on ground in path/woods; cap dingy white to light yellowish brown, hemispherical to planar, viscid/sticky when young, edge striate when older; gills off white, not exuding latex, close; stipe 5-7 cm x 1-2.5 cm, white, brittle; odor mild ? almonds, taste mild to mildly acrid with time; peels ~30% [Bessette, Kuo; check spores] |  | |
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| Crested Coral Fungus Clavulina cristata
saved - no
spore print - no
| 2013-07-21 J | coral fungus 4 cm high x 3 cm across, white with browning tips |  |  | 
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| pixie goblet Coltricia cf. cinnamomea
saved - no
spore print - no
| 2013-07-21 I | 3.5 cm splash cup on ground in woods; cap concave with concentric rings, tan to reddish brown; underside silky brown with finely fringed edge; stipe 3 cm x .5 cm, stiff, brown |  |  | | |
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Russula cf. pulchra
saved - no
spore print - white
| 2013-07-21 H | on ground on path in mixed woods; cap rosy red, 3-8 cm, smooth, convex slightly depressed center, peels easily; gills adnate, white, close; stipe 2-6 cm x .5-1.5 cm, smooth white, brittle; taste mild
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Chalciporus piperatus
saved - yes
spore print - pinkish brown
| 2013-07-21 G | on ground in mixed woods; cap tan, smooth 3 cm; pores reddish brown, round; stipe 3 cm x .5 cm, solid, brown |  |  | | |
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Suillus cf. granulatus
saved - no
spore print -
| 2013-07-21 F | on ground in mixed woods red pine/aspen [Buzz Ryan area]; cap tan, smooth hygraphanous, convex, 5 cm; pores very pale yellow, round, small, non-bruising, coming slightly down stipe; stipe 6 cm x 1 cm, solid, white, smooth; taste mild |  |  | | |
Amanita cf. ceciliae sensu auct. amer.
(A. rhacopus./A. borealisorora)
comments
saved - yes
spore print - creamy white
| 2013-07-21 E | on ground in mixed woods red pine/aspen; cap gray at center lighter to edge, 6 cm, smooth without warts (may have washed off), planar with slight umbo, edge distinctly striate 1+ cm; gills free, white, close; stipe 10 cm tapering from 1 to .5 cm at apex, smooth white, ring absent, small loose sac-like volva with small bulb |  |  | | |
? purple cushion fungus
? Diatrype cf. bullata
Stemonitis
saved - yes
spore print - brown
| 2013-07-21 D | 2-3 cm x .8 cm thick disks on wood. Soft/spongy but more firm than Fulgio. Surface purplish with pores. |  |  | | |
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Fulgio septica
saved - no
spore print - no
| 2013-07-21 C | soft, yellow mass on stump [slime mold] second on wolf scat with hazelnut shells |  |  | | |
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Russula brevipes
saved - no
spore print - no
| 2013-07-21 B | on ground in path under mature red pine; cap white, 1-12 cm, concave in center, edge rolled, emerging from the duff; gills white; stipe short and thick 5 cm x 3 cm |  |  | | |
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Boletus sp.
saved - no
spore print - dark olive brown
| 2013-07-21 A | on ground under mature red pine; cap yellowish-tan, smooth not viscid, convex, 10-15 cm x 3-4 cm thick, partly aureolate; pores pale yellow dardening with age, round, 2 x mm, non-bruising; stipe 6-9 cm x 3 cm, solid, finely reticulate, reddish towards apex, ring absent; spore print dark olive brown; taste mild, edible |  | | | |
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? Agrocybe sp.
saved - no
spore print - no
| 2013-06-16 A | on ground; cap tan, convex, edge inrolled; gills white, close. |  |  | | |
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Parasola cf. conopilus
saved - yes
spore print - dark brown
| 2013-06-16 B | clusters on well decayed log; cap 1-1.5 cm, tan to brown, convex, moist; gills close, brown, attached; stipe 3 cm x 2 mm, cartilaginous, tan |  | | | |
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Mycena sp.
saved - yes
spore print -
| 2013-06-06 | clusters on well decayed log; cap 1-1.5 cm, tan to brown, convex, moist; gills close, brown, attached; stipe 3 cm x 2 mm, cartilaginous, tan |  |  | | |
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Melanoleuca
at Mushroom Expert
saved - yes
spore print - creamy-tan oac815
| 2013-06-06 F | in wood chips; cap 6-8 cm, tan to brown, hygrophanous, edge upturned; gills free, white, close; stipe 6-8 cm x 1 cm, fibrous fleshy, tan striated, bulging at base, with white mycelia, does NOT have 'root' |  | | | |
Psathayrella cf. cystidiosa
at Mushroom Expert
saved - yes
spore print - purplish (light)
| 2013-06-06 E | In group on wood chips; cap 2-5 cm, tan to rusty brown, convex to nearly planar, hygrophanous, cracking or spltting with age; gills buff turning dark brown, adnate; stipe buff, fleshy-fibrous but fragile; |  | | | |
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Agrocybe
saved - yes
spore print - dark purple brown
| 2013-06-06 D | In clusters on wood chips, clear cut; cap 3-5 cm, planar, tan, hygrophanous to shiny, darker and aureolate near edge, edge slightly serrate and splitting; gills finely adnexed to nearly free, grey to medium charcoal brown, close; stipe 8 x .8 cm, fleshy, somewhat fragile, bulge at base with mycelia; [check for smooth spoes with apical pore] |  | | | |
saved - yes
spore print - black (purplish in light areas)
| 2013-06-06 C | In clusters on wood chips; cap 2-6 cm, broadly convex, tan with center dark brown and sometimes shrunken, hygrophanous; gills adnate, rusty brown, close; stipe 2-4 x 1 cm, tan with rusty brown streaks |  | | | |
Agrocybe praecox cluster species III
(see Kuo)
saved - yes
spore print - chocolate brown
| 2013-06-06 B | on ground with chips (logging area); cap 3.5-4.5 cm, convex with mildly inturned edge, tan, somewht aureolate, darker to center; gills adnexed, close, tan, with membranous partial veil when young; stipe tan, lighter toward top, no obvious annulus, bulging at base with mycelial mat;
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Giant puffball
Langermannia gigantea
saved - no
spore print - no
| 2013-06-06 A |
puffball, white 20 cm x 15 cm high, surface decorated with polygons and somewhat shrunken; interior white, gelatinous, appearing mature but not darkened; attachment to ground a short stump with hyphae |  | | | |
Fringed Tubaria
Tubaria cf. furfuracea
saved - yes
spore print -
| 2013-06-02 | group on wet ground, path in mixed woods (Bear Paw trail); cap 2.5 cm buff with darker ring, white spots near margin; gills colored alike, close, adnate+ (slightly down stem); stipe 3.5 cm x 5 mm slightly larger at base, mycelial mat. |  | 
cheilocystidia | | |
| Journal entry | 2013-06-02 | Slow start - Spring was late this year by at least two weeks. Several lichens collected but not yet keyed out. |
Scaly Lentinus, train wrecker
Neolentinus lepideus
saved - no
spore print - no
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolentinus_lepideus | 2011-07-31 | Boulder Lake: At base of red pine, grouped from same base 3-8 cm high; cap dry, convex, 4×7 cm, buff /white darker brown scales areolate, inrolled edge; gills white/cream, close, adnate (almost decurrent); stipe fleshy 3-5 cm x 1.5 cm attached at edge, same color as cap with scales flaking off, bulbous base, very small annulus at edge of gills. Comment: Common name likely due to ability to grow on creesote treated wood. |  |  | | | |
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