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Insects (Class Insecta)Observer
sazsDescription
Bug growing on witch hazel leaves.
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Waxcaps (Genus Hygrocybe)Observer
sazsDescription
Growing in forest detritis.
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Oak Bracket (Pseudoinonotus dryadeus)Observer
sazsDescription
Growing under a live oak, advanced growth, old
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Hen of the Woods (Grifola frondosa)Observer
sazsDescription
Bottom of a live oak
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Freckled Dapperling (Echinoderma asperum)Observer
sazsDescription
It is poisonous.
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Aborted Entoloma (Entoloma abortivum)Observer
sazsDescription
I’ve never seen these fungi before. They look like large garlic cloves squashed together. Many grown together with mushroom clusters. I am uncertain . They only growers on the floor of the forest.
carpophoroids should be referred to as Aborted Armillarias. https://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/sep2006.html
So according to our data, the field guides are mistaken on this point-- Entoloma should be considered a pathogen of Armillaria. We recommend the name "Aborting Entoloma" for the common name. Moreover, the carpophoroids should be referred to as Aborted Armillarias.
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Aborted Entoloma (Entoloma abortivum)Observer
sazsDescription
No cap formed at all. What is this? Entoloma abortivum seems the closest. It always seems to be growing near to mushrooms. https://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/sep2006.html
So according to our data, the field guides are mistaken on this point-- Entoloma should be considered a pathogen of Armillaria. We recommend the name "Aborting Entoloma" for the common name. Moreover, the carpophoroids should be referred to as Aborted Armillarias.
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Class ZygomycetesObserver
sazsDescription
It might be in the ZYGOMYCETE family
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Genus XerocomellusObserver
sazsDescription
Not velvet but the closest I could find. Does turn blue with air contact. I believe it might be a Porphyrellus pseudoscaber. It is completely dark brown.
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Oak Bracket (Pseudoinonotus dryadeus)Observer
sazsDescription
Possibly hydnellum ferrugineum?
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Genus TylopilusObserver
sazsDescription
Tylopilus alboater looks the closest in appearance color and shape.
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White-pored Chicken of the Woods (Laetiporus cincinnatus)Observer
sazsDescription
Couldn't tell the underside color.
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Green Cheese Polypore (Fomitopsis spraguei)Observer
sazsDescription
On a live oak
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Red-cracking Bolete (Xerocomellus chrysenteron)Observer
sazsDescription
Spores yellow
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Brittlegills (Genus Russula)Observer
sazsDescription
It is probably not Stropharia rugosoannulata or a Lepiota cristata but it is as close as I can find. The body gills and stem are white and the cap
deeply cracked. It showed no signs of growing in clusters. There several growing sporadically. No ring below the cap.
What about the agaricus bernardi? It was not near a salt marsh.
I’m not sure it’s a brittlegills because I cannot find a matching photo.
