Identification of Mushrooms
Everything Matters

Adapted from my class notes from OMS class on 3/17/2013


What to look for


Habitat

What is it growing on

Nearest Tress
Many mushroom,s are mycorrihizal
They grow on sprecif types of trees


Habit


Gills
also called Lamellulae


Gill Attachment

FREE - not attached to stem
Adnexed - narrowly attached - almost free
Sinuate - Notched
Adnate - broadly attached
Decurrent - running down the stem
Short gills - some gills do not extent all the way to the stem


Gill Spacing

Marginate - edges colored different from faces
Serrated
fringed
intervenos veins in spaces between the gills


Spore color
white to black
through all shades of brown

---- Four color groups
white to yellow
pink to salmon
yellow-brown to rusty-brown
chocolate or purple brown to black


Outer Universal veil

Envelops the whole young mushroom


Universal veil

Breaks leaving traces on cap and bottom of stem


Inner veil (partial veil)

covers young mushroom gills (from cap edge to stem)
May leave a ring or traces on stem or cap margin


Cap shapes

Convex
plane
conical
canoanykate
umbonate
pointed
depressed
infundibuliform - funnel or cone shapped


Cap surface - how sticky

Dry
viscid
glutinous


Hygrophanous cap surface

Change in color when gaining or loseng moisture


Cap Surface

Fibrilose
hairy
grandular
scaly


Cap Margin

Striate
appendiculate
split
pilcate


Stem position

central
lateral
eccentruc
absent


Stem Features

Fleshy Tapered bulb volva visid powdery clevate -- gradually wider at base


Odor and taste

farinaceous
of anise
of almonds
nitrous
spermatic
of green corn
of cucumber
raphanoid


Got Milk

Does it produce milky latex when bruised