Observation: Asterophora lycoperdoides (6255)
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When: 2008-01-31
Collection location:
Jack Pine Forest, Sparta, WI [Search]
Who:
Tom Volk (TomVolk)
No herbarium specimen
Notes: This weird agaric is a parasite on a member of the Russula nigricans group. Note the lack of gills on the underside of the parasite and the powdery chlamydospores on the top of the cap, by which the fungus spreads. See also http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/dec2005.html
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Created: 2008-02-02 10:29:10
By: Tom Volk (TomVolk)
Summary: asexual spores
The chlamydospores on the cap are formed by mitosis and are asexual, rather than being formed by meiosis like the basidiospores in a hymenium. thus there are no basidia on the cap or on the underside. therefore no hymenium. it’s a keen mushroom.
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Created: 2008-02-02 10:07:09
By: (CureCat)
Summary: .
So, A. lycoperdoides has the shape of a “typical mushroom”, but the hymenium is on the pileus rather than where you would expect to find gills or pores??
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Created: 2008-02-01 07:50:24
By: debbie viess (amanitarita)
Summary: Parasitic fungi rock!
Unless you’re the one being parasitized, of course…first saw this one in Pennsylvania at a NEMF foray; a nice sop for hunting in hundred degree weather. So very uncivilized. Give me the cool of a CA mushroom season any day…
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Observation Created: Thu Jan 31 20:14:23 -0800 2008
Last Modified: Thu Jan 31 20:20:19 -0800 2008 by Tom Volk (TomVolk)
Viewed: once, last viewed: Sat Nov 08 08:31:34 -0800 2008
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Asterophora lycoperdoides (10756)
Asterophora lycoperdoides (10757)
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