Making Spore Prints
While a single mushroom spore can't be seen by the naked eye, a pile of many spores can--and the color of a mushroom's spores, seen en masse, is a crucial identification feature. Obtaining a mushroom's "spore print" is therefore an essential [... more]
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Lepiota and Satellite Genera
If you are the kind of person who resists change, you're not going to like what's happening to the genus "Lepiota" these days. The genus used to consist of saprobic gilled mushrooms with white spore prints, gills that are free from the stem, ... [... more]
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Entoloma & Satellite Genera
The mushrooms in this group have pink spore prints, gills that are attached to the stem, and spores that are angular, warted, or ribbed. For the most part they are saprobes that help decompose forest litter, which means that they usually grow on ... [... more]
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Entoloma nigroviolaceum
There are several species of small, dusky purple mushrooms with pink spore prints in North America. They belong in the genus Leptonia, or in subgenus Leptonia of the genus Entoloma, depending on which mycologist you ask. Since the current ... [... more]
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The Agrocybe praecox cluster
The mushrooms in the Agrocybe praecox species cluster feature brown spore prints, whitish to yellowish brown caps, and partial veils that often leave fragments hanging from the cap margins and fragile rings on the stems. The mushrooms range from ... [... more]
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The Genus Pholiota
Most members of the genus Pholiota are wood-rotting saprobes with brown to cinnamon brown or rusty brown spore prints, gills that are attached to the stem but do not run down it, and rings or ring zones. The most commonly collected species are ... [... more]
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Entoloma rhodopolium
I'm using the name "Entoloma rhodopolium" to refer to a group of species characterized by the following: Like other species of Entoloma, the species in this group have pink spore prints, grow on the ground, and have (under the microscope) [... more]
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The Genus Xerula
Members of the genus Xerula can be recognized by their tall and slender stature, their white spore prints and their tough, rooting stems, which taper underground. There is no partial veil or universal veil (among the North American species, ... [... more]
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Clitocyboid Mushrooms
Traditionally, "Clitocybe" is a genus of gilled mushrooms that lack partial veils and feature white, yellowish, or pinkish spore prints, as well as gills that are broadly attached to the stem or run down it. Some mycologists separated " [... more]
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How to Make a Spore Print From a Mushroom
A single mushroom spore is so small that it cannot be seen by the naked eye. However, thousands of spores piled together are visible. You can see them by making a spore print. Spore prints help identify the mushroom type. The following steps will ... [... more]
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Making More Plants: The Science, Art, and Joy of Propagation
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