Mushrooms, mushrooms, mushrooms. They're everywhere these wet days. These little ones all sprung up in a few square metres of lawn under an arbutus.
Tan cap with pleated edges, dark brown, straight stalk. Laccaria laccata? |
A shy one, hiding under the leaves and grass. |
A "furry" cap with white edges. |
Some of these were almost blue. |
Baby amanita, still half buried, already nibbled. Hungry slugs! |
Mushrooms often form symbiotic relationships with specific trees. Mushrooms are not photosynthetic; they obtain their carbohydrates from the tree. In exchange, they serve as an extension of the roots, funnelling water and soil nutrients to their host.
Madrone trees host a large number of types of mycorrhizal fungi and have been called “a major hub of mycorrhizal fungal diversity and connectivity in mixed evergreen forests” (RealGardensGrowNatives)
On ScienceDirect, I found a paper with a list of 10 mushrooms associated with the arbutus, of which one, Laccaria laccata, seems to match the first one above. It's in my guide book, too, but the arbutus isn't mentioned there. Another site mentions a Russula species; I have found what I think were Russulas in this same location.
Laccaria laccata, Wikipedia commons, by Ian Alexander. |
I'm going to have to pay more attention to exactly where the mushrooms I find are growing. "On a lawn," or "in the forest" doesn't quite cut it.
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Hongos, hongos, y más hongos. Los hay en todas partes en estos dias lluviosos. Estos honguitos todos brotaron en unos cuantos metros cuadrados de césped debajo de un madroño.
- Un sombrero café claro con los bordes ondulados. Los tallos son rectos y de un café oscuro. Creo que pueden ser Laccaria laccata.
- Un hongo tímido, escondiéndose debajo de las hojas y el pasto.
- El sombrero es algo peludo y tiene un borde blanco.
- Algunos de estos eran casi azules.
- Un Amanita sp. apenas saliendo de la tierra. Pero ya lo han mordido las babosas.
Los madroños albergan un gran número de tipos de hongos micorrhizales y se les ha llamado "un centro mayor de diversidad y conectividad de hongos micorrhizales en bosques mixtos de árboles de hoja perenne".
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