vsumycologylab's Identifications

Code: HMA8
Habitat: Associated with live oak
Growing in moist soil

Macro-observations:
Black but some were a grayish black. Some were saddle shaped but most were irregularly lobes.
Surface smooth/slightly wrinkled. Almost rubbery.
Margin were sometimes attached. Some were incurved.

Underside: was a lighter color than top surface. Ribbed slights but smooth. More so gray in color.

Stipe: very deeply ribbed
White/pale gray (depending on specimen), smooth, base is white or lighter in color.

Flesh: very thin

Micro-observations:
Spores are 9 microns, elliptical or more so rounded, smooth

Code: HMA2
Habitat: on fallen log of dead hardwood (found in fall)

Macro-observations:
Cap:
dark olive to olive-yellow or golden yellow (depending on maturity)
2.5 cm across
Slightly depressed
KOH reaction turned brown-red for a split second
No bruising
Darkens a reddish tinge when dried

Gills:
Attached, short, close, golden yellow/orange, darkens a reddish color when dried
No bruising

Odor: faint
Taste: N/A

Spore print: white

Stipe: finely grooved; hollow; yellow, thicker towards base, very flat
Micro-observations:
Spores: 5 μm; smooth; ellipsoid; inamyloid

I identified this species as Lacrymaria velutina that is often referred to as a synonym to Lacrymaria lacrymabunda but those spores are more smooth than what was observed.

Ecology: Saprobic, growing alone or gregariously, observed in a set of two along paved trail in the woods near recently dead hardwood trees in the fall.

Cap: 4-5.5 cm; broadly convex, dry, medium yellowish brown in the disc, fading to dull tan; the margin lightly undulate with white partial veil remnants.

Gills: Narrowly attached to the stem, close short-gills frequent, grayish brown to dark brown.

Stem: 3.5-6 cm long; 4–7 mm thick, equal, slightly fibrillose with a fragile ring or a ring zone that is darkened by spores. White above, pale brownish below and hollow.

Flesh: Dark, dull brown; unchanging when sliced.

Spore Print: Very dark brown to black.

Microscopic Features: Ellipsoid to subamygdaliform with a large pore, coarsely, moderately verrucose. Reddish orange in water, brown in KOH and reddish brown in Melzer's.

Found scattered nearby pine and hardwood trees in the fall season at Grassy Pond at Valdosta, Georgia
2.5 cm broad, centrally depressed cap, surface not viscid, brownish-cinnamon color, margin wavy
Mild odor
Gills thick and well-spaced, pale pinkish color, gills adnexed
Stipe 4.5 cm long, 5 mm thick, equal, tough and twisted, reddish-brown stipe, slender, white mycelium at the base
Spore print white
Spores 7.5 um and round with small spines

Found on fallen hardwood branch
Slightly fuzzy but tough upper surface with white gills on the underside
Upper surface fan shaped, white and tan striping ranging in intensity of color
Some pine straw from neighboring trees grown into it

Tawny brown in color
Stem bases fused together
Found near oaks in a large cluster
Cap approximately 9 cm and braodly convexed in shape
Light brown gills slightly running down ( subdecurrent) curved stalk
Stalk tan/ pale grey colored and bruising dark brown
Spore print white; spores approximately 7.5 x 10 u, broadly ellipsoid, smooth, inamyloid, with Hylar's appendage
Spore print white

EGC 91022 E

Cap and stipe dark brown
Lighter brown around edges of cap
Cap approximately 10 mm
Small spikes on cap
Hymenium on underside in wrinkles
Associated with oak and pine
Spores ellipsoid slightly globose
7.5 x 6 microns

DNA was also sequenced and returned. After using BLAST, it was decided that the species was Craterellus carolinensis

• On ground, in group and in fused clusters
• Flat cap, or curved upward on margin for one specimen

DNA analysis supports that this is Hyndellum earlianum

Mushrooms Demystified keys this out to Hydnellum aurantiacum. It describes a white growing margin on the cap surrounding an otherwise orange center, and prominently warted spores with a brown spore print
In the comments it says Hyndellum earlianum is found in eastern North America under hardwoods, and has a nearly smooth cap

-Found solitary on stump (dead wood)- Saprobic
-Upper surface is pale tan, almost fleshy colored
-Upper surface is smooth, but folded in multiple locations
-Laid flat on wood with more or less central attachment to the stump

• Under side was lighter colored than the top, and also folded
• Specimen was immature, and immature perithecia were found in the upper surface

Mushrooms Demystified does not key out this species, But "Mushrooms of the Gulf Coast States" by Bessette, Bessette, and Lewis offers details that agree; intricately folded, pale tan, upper surface, and smooth, but ridged lower surface

-Found near Live Oak
-Grey cap
-About 4cm broad
-Plane, with slight central depression
-Margin deeply striate
-White stipe
-About 7cm long, 1cm thick
-Lacking annulus
-Smooth, but slightly scaled at base
-Fragile volva, which came off when I rubbed dirt off
-White gills
-Free from stipe
-White spore print
-Spores smooth, slightly elliptical, 10 um x 8um

Notes from Mushrooms Demystified:
-Striate grey cap, white gills, and absence of annulus all agree with my findings
-One difference is the spore shape, Mine are more elliptical than round (which actually fits better with A. constricta, but A. consrticta is only found in the western United States)

Found near a live oak in sandy soil.
Reddish-yellow stain when cut and in KOH
Old musty smell when cut open
Peridium unusually thick
The surface has flat scales and a pseudo stem present

Dark brown, somewhat firm spore mass (beginning to turn powdery)
spores approximately 7.5x7.5 u, brown in color, surface with minute spines, and partially reticulate

Found in South Georgia (Freedom Park)
Found in pine straws underneath pine trees

Powdery
Cap and stipe have wart/scaly-like appearance
Cap and stipe is white with a tan/pink/light orange powdery covering
Universal veil present - pinkish in color
Bulbus base
Annulus not present
Free gills

Did not bruise/stain
White spore print
Sweet odor after drying it out

Spores were globose and had hilars appendage
Spores were hyaline in KOH

Code: HMA2
Habitat: on fallen log of dead hardwood (found in fall)

Macro-observations:
Cap:
dark olive to olive-yellow or golden yellow (depending on maturity)
2.5 cm across
Slightly depressed
KOH reaction turned brown-red for a split second
No bruising
Darkens a reddish tinge when dried

Gills:
Attached, short, close, golden yellow/orange, darkens a reddish color when dried
No bruising

Odor: faint
Taste: N/A

Spore print: white

Stipe: finely grooved; hollow; yellow, thicker towards base, very flat
Micro-observations:
Spores: 5 μm; smooth; ellipsoid; inamyloid