With the onset of the rains, we're in mushroom season again. Yesterday, in 14 minutes in a friend's front yard, we found 7 different species of mushrooms, and one possible slime mold. Here are some of them.
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Mycena sp., probably. Growing among Sedum sp. |
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Earthballs, Scleroderma sp. And maybe that slimy white stuff is a slime mold. Or not. Another fungus, maybe? |
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One untouched by the slime, unbroken. |
At first I thought these were puffballs. But no, these, though brown already, don't puff. They're a look-alike, earthballs. (Poisonous, by the way; puffballs are edible and delicious.) And then they look like the ones I found growing a crack in the cement steps nearby a couple of years ago; I thought then that they were earthstars, but still in the same genus as the earthballs, Schleroderma. I think, now, that they're the same ones, having just found a more comfortable setting, under landscaping shrubs.
Earth ball fungi possess three key characteristics that differentiate them from other (puffball) species:1. The outer skin is tough and thick.2. Their interior spore surface either starts out dark purplish-black or matures to that color. Even with ones that start out white, there is usually some staining or indication that the interior is not going to remain white.3. They are attached to their underground mycelium network through thin mycelial strands that resemble little roots. (From Mushroom Appreciation)
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Knights, Genus Tricholoma, suggests iNaturalist. |
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More of the same, in the Sedum patch. |
More, tomorrow.
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Ya que han empezado las lluvias, estamos otra vez en la temporada de los hongos. Ayer, en solamente 14 minutos (tenía una cita, y no pude buscar más) en el césped de una amiga, encontramos 7 especies distintas de hongos, y posiblemente un moho mucilanigoso. Aquí hay algunos.
1. Mycena sp. probablemente. Con ramas de Sedum sp.
2. Bolas de tierra, Scleroderma sp.. Y esa capa blanca puede ser un moho mucilaginoso. O no. Tal vez otro tipo de hongo.
3. Una bola de tierra entera y sin moho.
Al principio, creí que eran hongos polvera. Pero no lo son; estos aunque estén ya maduros y color café no producen polvo al tocarlos. Son un hongo parecido; bolas de tierra. (Tóxicos; y los hongos polveras son comestibles y deliciosos.) Más se parecen a los que encontré hace un par de años en las grietas de los escalones de cemento a unos pasos de distancia. Pensaba, entonces, que eran estrellas de tierra (el mismo género, Scleroderma). Ahora llego a creer que son los mismos, que ahora se han encontrado un habitat más cómodo bajo los arbustos que rodean el césped.
Los hongos Bola de Tierra tienen tres características clave que los distinguen de otras especies. (Los hongos polvera.)1. El peridio (pared exterior) es grueso y resistente.2. La superficie interior o empieza de un color oscuro entre morado y negro o al madurar toma ese color. Aun con los que empiezan siendo blancos, hay algún tinte o alguna indicación que el color blanco no es permanente.3. Están conectados con su red de micelios por medio de hilos delgados que parecen ser raices pequeñas. (De Mushroom Appreciation)
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