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Observation: Armillaria mellea (Vahl) P. Kumm. (5120)
About Armillaria mellea (Vahl) P. Kumm.
Public Description (default) [Edit]
Draft for 2008/2009 EOL University Species Pages Initiative by Andy Hart (private)
Draft for Wild Mushrooms of the Northeastern United States by Herbert Baker (private)
When: 2007-11-22
Collection location: Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California, USA [Click for map]
Who: Alan Rockefeller
No herbarium specimen

Notes: I gathered this for dinner.

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  Alan Rockefeller   (no votes)  
  TomVolk   94% (3)   Eye3Eyes3
Recognized by sight: I’d have a hard time calling this anything besides A. mellea. There are no significat scales on the cap like A. ostoyae has, and the rest of the annulate Armillaria species are not caespitose.

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Created: 2007-11-23 16:51:01 WET (+0000)
By: Nathan Wilson (nathan)
Summary: Looking more closely I’ll go with Darvin’s call

Especially if that root in the fourth shot is from a pine not an oak.

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Created: 2007-11-23 16:39:48 WET (+0000)
By: Darvin DeShazer (darv)
Summary: Armillaria ostoyae

The brown flocks on the edge of the thick, persistent annulus along with whitish cap fibrils that age into dark scales, caespitose growth. At least some of the basidia should have clamps at the base. Here is a link to a key in Mycotaxon (1987) to five species of Armillaria that I have been using along with the Volk web site. http://www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cyberliber/59575/0030/0102.htm

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Created: 2007-11-23 06:32:59 WET (+0000)
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