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Russula brevipes https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Russula_brevipes.html Ecology: Mycorrhizal with a wide variety of trees, from conifers to hardwoods (see the discussion above); growing alone, scattered, or gregariously; common; summer and fall, or over winter in warm climates; fairly widely distributed in North America, at least as a species group. The illustrated and described collections are from Illinois, Québec, Pennsylvania, Michigan, California, and Colorado. Cap: 6-20 cm; convex with a central depression and an inrolled margin when young, later broadly convex with a central depression and eventually shallowly vase-shaped, the margin remaining somewhat inrolled or straightening; dry; bald or suedelike; sometimes becoming cracked in age; white to whitish or creamy at first, developing brownish discolorations and sometimes becoming brownish to orangish brown overall with old age; the margin not lined; the skin fairly tightly adnate, not peeling easily. Gills: Attached to the stem or running down it slightly; crowded or close; short-gills frequent; white at first, becoming creamy; sometimes spotting and discoloring brownish; sometimes bluish to blue, especially near the juncture with the stem. Stem: 3-4 cm long; 1.5-3 cm thick; sturdy and solid; more or less equal; dry; bald; whitish; usually discoloring and bruising brown to brownish; basal mycelium white. Flesh: White; sometimes discoloring brownish when sliced. Odor and Taste: Odor not distinctive, faintly foul, or faintly fragrant; taste mild to slightly, moderately, or strongly acrid. Chemical Reactions: KOH negative to faintly yellowish on cap surface. Iron salts negative on stem surface. Spore Print: White to creamy. Microscopic Features: Spores 7-10 x 5-7 m (but in some collections much smaller: 4-7 x 4-5 m); broadly ellipsoid to subglobose; ornamentation usually about 0.5 m high, as amyloid warts and occasional connectors that may be fairly isolated, or may form subreticulate patterns. Pleuro- and cheilocystidia 35-50 x 7.5-10 m; fusiform, cylindric, or subclavate, sometimes with one or more apical constrictions or knobs; thin-walled; hyaline. Pileipellis a cutis of hyaline to yellowish elements 2.5-5 m wide. Oleiferous hyphae present. #mushrooms #fungi #mycology #shrooms #mushtodon #sporespondence #floraspondence
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Ahead of the storm, I just found this monster puffball mushroom trying to break through the cover of English ivy that perpetually threatens to invade from the north (my neighbors' yard). This thing is 901 grams, and larger than my entire head. I didn't know puffballs could get this large. Considering puffball steaks for dinner. #Mushtodon #FungiFriday #Food
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