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American Yellow Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria var. guessowii)Observer
magda3Description
Location/Ecology: under a white pine tree, emerging between pine needles. Mycorrizal. There was a second similar fruiting body near by.
Cap: cream/tan with white scales (volvar remains); diameter = 9.0 cm.
Gills: cream colored, free from stem
Total height: 15.0 cm
Stipe: white and shaggy towards bottom; length = 12 cm ; width = 1.5 cm
Other features: volva
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Meadow Mushroom (Agaricus campestris)Observer
magda3Description
Location: grassy area next to the sign on the path from the Sports Complex to the Science Center. Similar fruiting bodies around the same patch of grass (some older samples had darker gills).
Cap: convex, cream colored cap (diameter 5.5 cm)
Gills: pink, crowded gills; free from stipe
Stipe: white, stipe length 5.2 cm, stipe width 1.4 cm (whole specimen 6.3 cm in height)
Other features: remnants of a thin ring
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Mushrooms, Bracket Fungi, Puffballs, and Allies (Class Agaricomycetes)Observer
magda3Description
Large shelf fungi, radial zones of tan and brown, 16 cm diameter shelf, white tubes (no gills).
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Shelf Fungi (Order Polyporales)Observer
magda3Description
White bracket mushroom growing on dead branch. Tubes, no gills.
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Amanita Sect. Amanita (Section Amanita)Observer
magda3Description
Amanita growing under white pine.
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Suborder AgaricineaeObserver
magda3Description
Taupe zonal cap, dark brown gills, no veil. Growing on grass. Club stipe, wite but darker towards top.
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Flowering Plants (Subphylum Angiospermae)Observer
magda3Description
Yellow berries bush.
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Eastern White Pine (Pinus strobus)Observer
magda3Description
White? Pine tree. Huge. Long, thin needles. The oily tiny seeds/cones at the very tip.
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Trembling Aspen (Populus tremuloides)Observer
magda3Description
Quaking Aspen by the O'Hara pond. Native.
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Joint-toothed Mosses (Class Bryopsida)Observer
magda3Description
Green Moss growing on cement mural.
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Multiflora Rose (Rosa multiflora)Observer
magda3Description
Bush with red berries. Leaves are serrated, branches have horns.
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Japanese Barberry (Berberis thunbergii)Observer
magda3Description
Red berries on a bush. Round edges on small leaves. Thorns on branches. Not quite red holly. Not native.
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Goldenrods (Genus Solidago)Observer
magda3Description
Golden rod by the O'Hara pond.
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Red Maple (Acer rubrum)Observer
magda3Description
Red maple that was infested with gypsy moth because leaves are seriously eaten up.
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Black Willow (Salix nigra)Observer
magda3Description
Weeping willow by the pond. Brown, layered trunk. Long leaves with visible roots above ground.
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Mushrooms, Bracket Fungi, Puffballs, and Allies (Class Agaricomycetes)Observer
magda3Description
Light tan fungi. Fan cap. Mostly solid beige color. Tubeless underneath. Growing on brown Birch tree by the pond.
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Birch Polypore (Fomitopsis betulina)Observer
magda3Description
Birch polypore. Oyster colored fungi growing on Birch tree. Deeper color under. Tubes (no gills). Very short stalk. Growing of a white trunk Birch tree.
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Birches (Genus Betula)Observer
magda3Description
White trunk, maybe paper birch
