Intended to document some of the local diversity of mushrooms and other fungi, and as practice in observation and identification of fungi. Best viewed with Firefox.
Primary Location: mixed woods (aspen, fir, maple, birch, pine) 20 miles north of Duluth, MN 47.043 N 92.095 W
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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Phellinus tremulae
False Tinder Conk
saved - no
spore print - no | 2017-12-21 A | polypore on aspen with lichen and moss, conk shaped with ridged and cracked top surface, finely pored grey underside |  | |
Phyllotopsis cf. nidulans
saved - no
spore print - no | 2017-09-30 A | Shelf group of individual shelves on rotten standing log; cap 8cm x f cm, orange, somewhat hairy; gills close, orange, forked near base, laterally attached, astipate; spore print pinkish. |  |  |
Tylopilus pseudoscaber
saved - no
spore print - brown | 2017-09-10 A | Bolete 8 cm in mixed woods; cap olive brown, spherical; pores brownbruising dark green then black; stipe 6 cm x 2.2 cm, equal, base may smell of chlorine, surface brown, looks like minute scabers in lines/striations, pores decurrent, context white, odor astringent. | no photo | |
Laccaria sp.
saved - no
spore print - no | 2017-09-01 A | Small group on ground in mixed woods; cap pinkish-tan, 1.5-2 cm, umbilicate, edge inrolled; gills distant, pinkish-tan; stipe many times longer than cap width, .5 cm x 4-6 cm, tan striated with wine color. |  | |
Clavariadelphus americanus
saved - yes
spore print - cream | 2017-08-29 C | Spatulate 9 cm x 1.5 cm, buff colored, rounded top. |  | |
Amanita cf. fulva
saved - no
spore print - no | 2017-08-29 B | on ground in mixed woods (several feet from A); cap spherical (immature), tawny brown, glaborous, striate; gills not checked; stipe 5 cm x 1 cm without ring, saccate vulva. |  | |
Amanita sp. (maybe mature A. fulva)
saved - no
spore print - no | 2017-08-29 A | on ground in mixed woods; cap white, widely convex with small umbo, veil remnants, striate; stipe white with tan shading, saccate vuvlva. |  |  |
saved - yes
spore print - chocolate brown | 2017-08-25 A C | Group on base of maple; cap 3-5.5 cm, glaborus and hygrophanus, cream becoming dark tan and folded; gills loose, pinkish tan becoming chocolate brown, notched; stipe white, fleshy, 3-8 cm x .75 - 1.5 cm |  | |
Stropharia sp.
saved - no
spore print - no | 2017-08-22 A | Group group on moss on log in mixed woods; cap 1-3 cm, brown/wine colored, wet; gills close, purplish, attached; stem 2-6 cm x .3-.7 cm, smooth, white |  | |
Laccaria cf. proxima
saved - no
spore print - no | 2017-08-21 A | Group on ground in mixed woods; cap 2-3 cm, few wine colored scales with slightly depressed and darker center; gills white, attached, widely spaced, many lammelulae; stem striated wine color, fibrous, 4 times longer than cap width. |  | |
Cantharellus sp.
at Girl Scouts site
saved - eaten
spore print - no | 2017-08-21 A | Group on ground in mixed woods; cap 2-3 cm, few wine colored scales with slightly depressed and darker center; gills white, attached, widely spaced, many lammelulae; stem striated wine color, fibrous, 4 times longer than cap width. |  | |
Agrocybe acericola
saved - yes
spore print - rusty brown | 2017-06-26 | 5-9 cm mushrooms on disturbed ground with buried wood; cap cream to tan at center, smooth, hygrophanous, 3-7 cm convex to planar with wavy edge; gills close, adnate or slightly notched, cream turning dusky brown then rusty brown; stipe 4-7 cm x 0.7-1.2 cream slightly yellowing slowly, membranous partial veil in 'pinwheel' pattern leaving ring, abrupt basal bulb with white rhizomorphs and tiny new fruits; flesh white, odor farinaceous/unpleasant, taste mealy/bitter; spore print dull rusty brown. |  |  |
Gandoderma cf. appalantum
saved - yes
spore print - no | 2017-04-16 | Polypore on base of red maple, shelving, 6-30 cm diameter, hard (last year's/multi year), cream colored, broad ridges; pores very small but visible, grey; large without stipe, small with 4 x 1.5 cm stipe, smooth, hard white (same as pilipeleus) context rusty brown, thin |  |  |  |
Pleurotus populinus
saved - eaten
spore print - | 2017-06-14 A1 | aspen oysters |  | ![]() | ![]() |
Morchella sp.
small morels, first of the year
saved - eaten
spore print - | 2017-05-22 | |  | ![]() | ![]() |