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1- ?? Nidularia pulvinata or Nidularia deformis

Posted by Luurt 12/23/12

diameter of the balls was at most 3.4 millimeters each
NOT a fungus even though the initial observations sure seemed like it
inside looks like it has been created with mucilage, similar to a number of other insect cases

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2) Tricholomopsis rutilans
called Plums and Custard

Posted by Lisa 12/24/12

Large in size: on rotting conifers: Yellow flesh; burgundy fibrils on cap and stipe: Cap subviscid: Gills adnate and notched; Spore print unmistakably white: Odor mild

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3) Stropharia

Posted by Elmer 12/21/12

Probably Stropharia Ambigua but no veil remnants on edge of cap - maybe washed away
cap is viscid, gills are adnate, spore print is very dark brown or black. The spores elliptical 6 to 7 by 8 to 11 micron.

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4) Helvella lacunosa

Posted by Luurt 12/16/12

Alternatively maybe Helvella crispa:
found in an area where truffles usually found

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5) Inocybe

Posted by Elmer 12/16/12


little white on wood chips: Cap umbonate: spore print light brown or orange brown: gills notched: stipe stiff. Note: Inocybe geohylla is poisonous- it contains "muscarine"

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6) A Variety

Posted by Paul 12/12/12

Variety includes:
Marasimius: Pleurotus: Amanita (with indistinct volva)

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7) Cup Fungi

Posted by Elmer 12/14/12

Probably Pezizaaceae or Tarzette: eight Peridioles in the cup: the Peridioles are disk shaped with a diameter of 1.75 millimeters and a thickness of 0.5 millimeters.

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8) Galerina

Posted by Lurt 12/14/12

Galerina stylifera or G. Sideroides
nail head above the cap is 7 millimeters in diameter
Spore is buff/tan
very rotten wood

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9) Gymnopilus penetrans

Posted by Paul 12/12/12



Growing on Wood: spores rusty orange: cap is not scaly

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10) Ramaria

Posted by Elmer 12/08/12

Possibly Ramaria abietina or Ramaria rasilispora

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11) Various

Posted by Paul 12/06/12






Various including Phylloporus: Hypholoma: Leucopaxillus: Amanita:Chroogomphus

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12) Hygrophorous subalpinus

Posted by Jonh 12?04/12



in open grass oak area, has gelatinous, translucent universal veil, slimy, white spores

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13) Various Species

Posted by Paul 12/02/12

includes:
Hebeloma: Gomphidius:
Pleurotus: Melanoleuca: Marasmius:
Cortinarius: Armilaria:

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Probably

14) Gymnopilus

Posted by Elmer 12/02/12

Taste is very bitter, veil in young specimen , growing on wood chips, spore print orange brown

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Probably

15) Boletus smithii

Posted by Elmer 11/27/12




taste is not bitter --
The taste is very mild
Spore print is Olive Brown
Spores are oblong or spindle shaped
4.5 microns to 11 to 14 microns

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16) Not Determined

Possibly Honey Mushroom

Posted by Katie 11/26/12

solitary under Doug Fir: Veil very apparent:
gills looked slightly pinkish
Possibility a Honey mushrooms: often have pinkish tan gills, even though the spores are white and they have fibrous stems

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17) Coprinus comatus
Shaggy Mane

Posted by Elmer 11/25/12


Question discussed
Would you eat one found in a sub-division that may have been sprayed with weed killer

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18) Cup Fungus
Bisporella citrina

Posted by Elmer 11/25/12

an ascomycete
listed on p. 877 in Arora’s MDM
Picture Trudell’s book on p. 293-4

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19) Several Specimens

Posted by Paul 11/21/12

    includes
  • very light to white spore prints.
    • Russula;
    • Pleurotus
  • an Armillaria.
  • a Gomphidius (dark decurrent gills, stems that's yellow at the bottom,)
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20) Pleurotus

posted by Quinn 11/24/12

28 centimeters across: No visible stipe: gill edges not serrated: spores are white : mushrooms might be large for some random reason, therefore some identifying characteristics would be exaggerated.
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21) chroogomphus

Posted by Fred

There are sevral posts by Fred that apparently relate to the same mushroom. Also there apparentlay were some emails that were not posted. Therefore this post is somjewhat confusing.

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22) Armillaria sinapina

Posted by Mike 11/20/12





tan cap with darker "hairy" center: pinkish tan gills: fibrous stem, attached gills, ring, and bits of yellow tissue on ring and stem: yellow universal veil remnants and the yellow partial veil

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23) Russula

Probalby Russula crassitunicata

Posted by Elmer 11/1/9/20

Growing on wood cap convex: Gills Adnate: Spores are white and definitely spiny: Stem breaks but not clean like chalk - see discussion of this

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24) Coprinus niveus

Posted by Elmer 11/18/12

Judy says this may be: "Coprinus niveus (white as snow) group as they loose those white scales quickly"

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25) Leucopaxillus gentianeus

consider Tricholoma imbricatum

Posted by Joe 11/17/12

Joe proposed
Tricholoma imbricatum
On Mushroom Observer name changed to:
Leucopaxillus gentianeus

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26) Xerompralina

Posted by Elmer 11/17/12


small, growing on wood, stem Brown, spores are white or slightly yellow

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27) Pseudohydnum gelatinosum

Posted by Joe 11/16/12



The New Savory Wildmushroom says this
"may be eaten raw with sugar and cream, or marinated in french dressing and used in salad."

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28) chlorophyllum olivieri

Old name Lepiota

Posted by Peggy 11/15/12

cap is about 13cm across: Mature cap has scales: Spores white: Flesh thin:
Note: Chlorophyllum molybdites (common names false parasol or green-spored parasol) is Highly poisonous.

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29) Amanita smithiana

Posted by Elmer 11/15/12

when touched it has a flaky, chalk like texture
The gills are adnate, closely spaced, with a faint decurrent line on stem apex. The spore print was white. No veil.

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30) Stropharia Ambigua






Gills are attached, Spore print very dark brown.
vail remnats on edge of cap

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31) Agaricus

Posted by Carolyn 11/08/12



Possibly Agaricus Silvicola
Check odor; pleasant (almond, anise) or not ("chemical")
check cogweel pattern at the bottom of veil
Similar in size shpe and color to deadly Amanita
Check for volva, check are gills white at maturity

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32) A variety found in Tigard

Posted by Paul 11/15/12

    includes
  • Clitocybe;Stropharia; Armillaria; Pholiota
  • Ramaria;Pleurotus; Lepiota; Armillaria;
  • Coprinus; Chlorophyllum olivieri; Amanita;Pholiota
  • Armillaria; pholiota;agaricus; suillus
  • Lepiota;armillaria; Vascellum; Gomphidius
  • Paxillus;
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33) Suillus caerulescens

Also: consider S. ponderosus
Posted by Elmer 11/13/12




large pores are in rows, pores are Yellow stem not bulbous:
Not S. brevipes:
Note: S. brevipes: "Suillus brevipes typically has a med to dark brown cap, very small pores that are not radially aligned, a whitish stipe without an annulus and occurs with pine"
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34) Gymnopilus

check tricholompsis

Posted by L&J N 11/11/12

veil remnants that are brownish:
spore print is pale yellow-ochre:
spores are sausage-shaped, a few are more like bowling pins

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35) Sparassis radicata
(cauliflower mushroom)

Posted by PM on 11/12/12

found on a decaying stump in a coniferous forest

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36) Mycena

Posted by Elmer 11/09/12


small mushroom, Adnate Gills, no ring, striated cap, white spores

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37) Gomphidius oregonensis

Posted by Elmer 11/11/12

a gilled mushroom with a distinctive yellow stem bottom spores are brown and gills are decurrent, dark brown spore print.
Note: Gomphidius normally have a dark gray to black spore print

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38) Hericium erinaceus

Posted by Nam 11/08/12


white mushrooms growing in the wounds of a hardwood:
largest is over a foot long

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39) Chlorophyllum

Posted by Katie 11/08/12

Chlorophyllum was previously Lepiota:
White stalk and gills. Grayish to brownish scaly cap:
There are three Chlorophyllum species in the rachodes group:
Note:Chlorophyllum molybdites (common names false parasol or green-spored parasol) is Highly poisonous.

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40) Suillus

Posted by Katie on 11/8/12

dark brown mushrooms found by fallen rotten Doug Fir.
The golden colored mushrooms were found in a mossy field

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41) Suillus ponderosus

Posted by Katie 11/05/12



Not Suillus caerulescens:
glutinous annulus in the third pic suggests S. ponderosus:
yellowish or orangish coloration means S. ponderosus

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42) Chlorophyllum

Posted by Quinn 10/30/12

Note:Chlorophyllum molybdites (common names false parasol or green-spored parasol) is Highly poisonous.
This mushroom has a distinct abrupt rimmed bulbous stipe base, The abrupt bulb eliminates Ch. molybdites and Ch. rachodes, leaving us with Ch. brunneum and Ch. olivieri. If the ring has double edge it's Ch. olivieri.

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43) Caulorhiza umbonata

Posted by Mike P: 10/29/12



The rooting stem is the most distinguishing feature, plus pale, notched gills and fibrillose stem

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44) Ramaria ramariopsis

Posted 10/22/12 by L&J N


possibly a new species
The length of the longer branches are about 2 centimeters.

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45) Scleroderma Cepa

Posted 10/8/12 by Godsavethecheese


growing in compost,
a great blue-black color inside and they have a thick skin, 3-4mm thick;
an ectomycorrhizal fungus used as a soil inoculant in agriculture and horticulture

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46) Hericium ramosum

Posted by Elmer 10/6/12

Has comb like teeth
no hanging "clusters of teeth"
therfore not Hericium abeitis
Not a Ramaria - no blunt tips

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47) Tacklebox with 13 mushrooms

Posted by Sava 9/21/12

B1: Lacrymaria lacrymabunda -- additional picture
B2: Agrocybe pediades (not Panaeolus foenisecii)
B3: Scleroderma cepa. (citrinum?)
B4: Russula
C1: Prince buttons, Agaricus augustus; or perhaps the Princess, Agaricus perobscurus
D2: Conocybe apala, Conocybe albipes, Conocybe lactea, all the same
D4: Coprinopsis - additional picture
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48) Leccinum insigne

Posted by Dick 8/7/12




one of the few Boletes that can be found during late spring and early summer, grows under Aspen
Others seen growing in grass now Paneolina foenisecii, Panaeolus cinctulus, Conocybe lactea, a group of some smallish Lactarius(!), and a group of Scleroderma cepa
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49) sulfur self

Posted by Quinn 7/23/12



found driving to work on a cherry plum tree in east Portland, a mushrooms almost worth getting into a car wreck over
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50) Parasola leiocephala,

Posted by Don 7/25/12

Parasola leiocephala, looks the same as Parasola plicatilis but has significantly smaller spores and grows in bare soil. see discussion of Coprinus

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51) Boletus zelleri

Posted by Elmer 7/24/12







See difference from Boletus chrysenteron in the discussion
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52) Gymnopus peronatus
(previously called Collybia peronata)

Posted by Sava 7/8/12



grow in leaf litter. Their spores are white
a European species only recently on this continent

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53) Liverwort-- Marchantia polymorpha

Posted by Elmer 7/9/12



Propagate by spores, produced in those gemmi cups, gemme cups are for spore-like propagules for asexual reproduction,
For sexual reproduction, and one plant will have the tall mushroom-like umbrellas - kind of gently and lobed, and is the male, or antheridial, structure, while another plant nearby will have tall little structures that look like umbrellas without the fabric cover - just the spokes.

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54) Collybia dryophylla (Also called Gymnopus dryophilus)

Posted by Don 6/19/12


has white spores, growing in a pine forest in the duff, has very closely spaced gills, buttery/waxy cap surface

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55) Lepiota

Posted by Elmer 5/25/12





growing on the ground in a woody area under firs
The cap has shaggy scales
Bottom of stalk is thick but no bulb or outer veil around the stem
gills are not attached to stalk

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56) Pleurotus pulmonarius (oyster)

Posted by Astrid 5/8/12


On a log, gills whitish and decurrent off center
spore color is brownish (white)

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57) Nolanea holoconiota (pointed Cap)

Posted by Save 5/8/12

Common Spring mushroom.
spore print pink-brown
No veils of any kind. long (slim!) stem.

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58) Agrocybe praecox group

Posted by Mike P: 4/28/12


Found in grass, spore print grayish, The cap of this specimen (one of the larger ones) is 4.5 cm across, and it's slightly umbonate; the stipe is 5.5 cm long

The discussion explains why this is not Agrocybe pediades, Hebelomas, or Agrocybe molesta

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59) Amanita pantherina

Posted by Mike P. 5/5/12






white gills, ring, warts on the cap, viscid surface when moist, character of warts (detachable), striate margin, skirtlike veil, and stem widening downwards to a bulb-like volva.
In particular, the free rim at the top of the volva

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60) Agaricus augustus

Posted by Quinn 5/4/12




On wood chips, spores dark brown, bruised yellow, reddish brown scales

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61) Agocybe praecox

Posted by Elmer 5/4/12








growing on wood chips, spore print dark brown, gills adnate

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62) Daldinia

Posted by Luurt 5/3/12



On a branch of wild cherrywood
Either D. childiae or D. loculata

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63) Lacrymaria lacrymabunda

Posted By Don 5/3/12






Common - Grows in Grass - spore print black

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64) Verpa bohemica and
Morchella semilibera
(Not Morels)

Posted by Sava 4/27/12

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65) Hygrocybe

Posted by Sava 4/30/12

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66) Tricholoma )

(Discussion of Various Odors of Tricholoma)
Posted By Sava 4/25/12

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67) Marasmius

Posted by Sava 04/11/12

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68) Agrocybe praecox

Posted by Sava 4/14/12
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69) Inocybe

Posted By Sava 4/18/12
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70) Coprinellus micaceus

Posted by Sava 4/19/12
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71) Verpa conica

Posted by Sava for 4/19/12 Click on a Thumbnail to see the Discussion

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72)Tricholomopsis platyphylla

Posted by Don 4/25/12

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73) Corinopsis micaceous

Posted by Elmer 4/26/12