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Amanita novinupta

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Amanita_novinupta.html

Ecology: Mycorrhizal with hardwoods, especially coast live oak--but also associated with Douglas-fir and other conifers; growing alone, scattered, or gregariously; fall, winter, and spring; California to British Columbia, and in Arizona and New Mexico.

Cap: 3-15 cm; round, becoming convex or nearly flat; dry; the surface appearing dusted or chalky at first, but later becoming shiny or satiny; white at first, developing pink shades that can seem to originate from beneath the translucent surface; eventually pinkish to tan; bruising and discoloring pale pinkish or darker reddish brown; universal veil taking the form of whitish to pale pink warts or one to several patches; the margin not lined, sometimes hung with a few veil remnants.

Gills: Free from the stem or slightly attached to it; whitish; close or crowded; bruising pinkish.

Stem: 2-15 cm long; 1-3 cm thick; slightly tapering to apex; usually with a prominent basal bulb; more or less smooth, or finely scaly; white; bruising pinkish to reddish; with a white, skirtlike ring; occasionally with a few universal veil remnants near the base, but without a prominent volva; solid or partially hollow in age.

Flesh: White throughout; staining pinkish to reddish on exposure.

Odor: Not distinctive.</AP>

Chemical Reactions: KOH negative on cap surface.

Spore Print: White.

Microscopic Features: Spores 8-11 x 5.5 - 7 ; smooth; ellipsoid; amyloid. Basidia 4-spored; sometimes clamped. Pileipellis an ixocutis of elements 2-8 wide. Lamellar trama bilateral; subhymenium inflated-ramose.

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Amanita magnivelaris

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Amanita_magnivelaris.html

Ecology: Mycorrhizal with various hosts--I have collected it under loblolly pine and under Norway spruce; Rod Tulloss (http://www.amanitaceae.org/?amanita%20magnivelaris" TARGET="new upd.) documents it under various hardwoods and conifers; growing alone or scattered; summer and fall; apparently distributed around the Great Lakes and in the northeast.

Cap: 4-10 cm; convex, becoming broadly convex, broadly bell-shaped, or nearly flat in age; bald or, when young, with scattered volval patches; dry or sticky; white to ivory; the margin not lined.

Gills: Free, or nearly free, from the stem; close or crowded; with frequent short-gills; white.

Stem: 6-12 cm long; 1-2 cm thick; tapering to apex; with an enlarged, bulbous base that measures up to 4 cm in diameter and features a tapering, rooted underside; somewhat shaggy or nearly bald; white; with a persistent, notably thickened, felty, high, skirtlike ring that may feature a grooved upper surface; with a white, sacklike volva encasing the base.

Flesh: White throughout.

Odor: Reminiscent of raw potatoes, or not distinctive.

Spore Print: White.

Chemical Reactions: KOH negative on cap surface.

Microscopic Features: Spores 8-11 x 5.5-8 ; smooth; ellipsoid; amyloid. Basidia without clamps; 4-spored. Pileipellis a cutis or ixocutis. Lamellar trama bilateral.

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Chroogomphus ochraceus

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Chroogomphus_ochraceus.html

Ecology: Mycorrhizal with conifers, especially pines; growing alone, scattered, or loosely gregariously; summer and fall (over winter in coastal California); widely distributed in North America.

Cap: 2-12 cm wide; convex, occasionally with a central point; smooth; slimy when fresh and young, but often dry and shiny or silky when collected; color ranging from yellowish to orangish, reddish, purplish red, or reddish brown--usually darker with maturity.

Gills: Running down the stem; distant or nearly so; pale yellowish at first, becoming grayish cinnamon and finally blackish as the spores mature.

Stem: 3.5-18 cm long; up to 2.5 cm wide; tapering to base; yellowish to pale orangish; sometimes with scattered orangish to reddish fibers (but not densely felty-scaly); often with a wispy ring zone from the collapsed partial veil.

Flesh: Pinkish above, yellowish in the stem.

Odor and Taste: Not distinctive.

Spore Print: Dark gray to black.

Microscopic Features: Spores 14-22 x 6-7.5 ; smooth; narrowly elliptical to subfusoid. Cystidia long-cylindrical, subutriform, or narrowly clavate; up to about 180 x 20 ; with thin walls (under about 1 thick).

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Just poking about the log jam at Al Borlin Park in Monroe, WA

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Gymnopus alkalivirens

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Gymnopus_alkalivirens.html

Ecology: Saprobic; growing alone, scattered, gregariously, or in clusters on soil, leaf and needle litter, woody debris, and among mosses or ferns; found in hardwood, conifer, and mixed forests; summer and fall; apparently widely distributed in northern North America, the Appalachians, and the Rocky Mountains.

Cap: 1-4.5 cm; convex, becoming broadly convex or nearly flat, with a low central bump; greasy; bald; sometimes becoming somewhat wrinkled; dark brown to dark purplish brown, developing a pale margin and eventually fading to cinnamon or buff overall; the margin sometimes becoming lined.

Gills: Attached to the stem or nearly free from it; close; medium brown to pale brownish.

Stem: 3-8 cm long; up to about 5 mm thick; more or less equal, or with a slightly swollen base; dry; bald; colored like the cap; with brownish fuzz near the base.

Flesh: Whitish to brownish; thin.

Odor and Taste: Not distinctive.

Chemical Reactions: Ammonia or KOH promptly green on all surfaces.

Spore Print: White.

Microscopic Features: Spores: 5-8 x 2.5-4 ; smooth; lacrymoid to elliptical; inamyloid. Pleurocystidia absent. Cheilocystidia scattered; cylindric to subclavate; sometimes somewhat lobed or with projections; to about 70 long. Pileipellis a cutis of branched elements 3-5 wide; greenish in KOH; sometimes encrusted with brown pigment. Hyphae of the gill, cap, and stem trama encrusted with scattered brown granules.

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Mushroom log or tree stump fountain? Which do you prefer?

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Phellodon alboniger

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Phellodon_alboniger.html

Ecology: Mycorrhizal with conifers (especially eastern white pine and eastern hemlock); sometimes reported under hardwoods; growing alone or gregariously; summer and fall; widely distributed in eastern North America.

Cap: Single or fused with other caps; 3-9 cm wide; convex, becoming planoconvex or nearly flat; velvety; whitish to pale gray, becoming gray with a whitish to bluish margin.

Undersurface: Running down the stem; covered with crowded spines that are 2-4 mm long; whitish at first, becoming gray.

Stem: 4-6.5 cm long; 1-4 cm thick at apex; extremely variable in shape; smooth or finely velvety; colored like the cap.

Flesh: Two-layered, with a whitish to pale grayish, spongy upper layer and a hard, black to bluish black lower layer.

Odor and Taste: Odor mild or, more commonly, fragrant (reminiscent of curry or maple syrup), becoming stronger when dried; taste mild.

Chemical Reactions: KOH on flesh bluish to greenish, then brown to black.

Spore Print: White.

Microscopic Features: Spores 3.5-5 x 3-4.5 ; globose to subglobose; echinulate with spines about .5 long. Clamp connections absent.

REFERENCES: (Peck, 1898) Banker, 1906. (http://194.203.77.76/librifungorum/Image.asp?ItemID=87&ImageFileName=SyllogeFungorum14-201.jpg" TARGET="new 1899; Coker & Beers, 1951; Smith, Smith & Weber, 1981; Baird, 1986; Baird & Khan, 1986.) Herb. Kuo 09130410

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The Forest takes back one of its own

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"Twisted Tree" is one of 6 original paintings from last year’s October challenge that is still up for adoption. So grateful that 24/30 have already found a new home!

Make this one yours: https://lindenshieldarts.com/products/mixed-media-original-twisted-tree
(it is even discounted!!)

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Unsupervised use of psilocybin, or “magic mushrooms,” has accelerated among all age groups in the United States, but especially among adolescents and people 30 and older, a new study found.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/21/health/psilocybin-use-poison-calls-wellness/index.html

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Antique hammers specifically designed for this task... Interesting.

https://www.antiquesnavigator.com/d-3559053/rare-old-shiitake-mushrooms-hammer-vintage-japanese-blacksmith-japan-hp375.html

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They did publish a study on this...
Google Translation of this:

"Shiori Toki, Hiroki Ishihara, Chiemi Iida: Effects of timber tapping on dried shiitake mushroom log cultivation Kyushu Forest Research 73: 143-145, 2020 In dried shiitake mushroom log cultivation, watering and felling the logs to promote shiitake mushroom emergence are called emergence operations. One of these is the tapping process, in which the logs are tapped after rainfall or while being watered. There are cases where the amount of emergence is secured by performing bed raising in the first year after inoculation and tapping in the second year at production sites. However, there are no concrete examples of the emergence effect of tapping. In this study, we investigated the effect of tapping on shiitake mushroom emergence in a one-year raising test and a tapping method examination test. In the one-year raising test, the amount of emergence increased with tapping, but the effect on the quality and the diameter of the mushroom umbrella was small. In the test to examine the method of striking, it was found that the amount of occurrence increased with the number of times the trees were struck, and that the amount of occurrence tended to increase when the end of the tree was struck rather than the bark."

https://jfs-q.jp/kfr/73/p143-145-01.pdf

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Sora News: "Strange as it may sound, the technique has been a bit of folk wisdom for some time, and the Oita Prefectural Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries Research Guidance Center recently confirmed that hammer time really does help lead to mushroom time.

Last month, the organization conducted an experiment, comparing the effects of hitting a log with a hammer versus leaving it un-smacked, and found that the wood that had been hammered subsequently produced more than twice as much shiitake (by weight). "

https://soranews24.com/2022/02/08/violence-is-the-answer-japanese-farmers-using-hammers-to-grow-more-mushrooms/

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Okay, today I learned that part of the traditional Japanese method of growing Shiitake mushrooms is hitting logs with hammers. Apparently they whack the logs infused with the mushrooms to "trigger" the growth of the mushrooms (apparently the theory is that the mushrooms appear when the tree falls over). I have no idea if there is any actual science behind it, but...

They even sell special Shiitake mushroom hammers.

https://th.misumi-ec.com/en/vona2/detail/223007976051/

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Fomes fomentarius

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Fomes_fomentarius.html

Ecology: Parasitic and saprobic on the wood of hardwoods (especially birches and beech); causing a white rot; growing alone or gregariously; perennial; fairly widely distributed in northern and north-temperate North America

Cap: Up to about 20 cm across; shell-shaped to hoof-shaped; with a dull, woody upper surface that is zoned with gray and brownish gray.

Pore Surface: Brownish; 2-5 round pores per mm; tube layers indistinct, brown, becoming stuffed with whitish material.

Stem: Absent.

Flesh: Brownish; thin; hard.

Microscopic Features: Spores 12-20 x 4-7 ; cylindric; inamyloid; smooth. Hyphal system trimitic.

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My son's shiitake mushroom kit is alive! #mushrooms