When: 2006-06-11
Collection location: Jackson Co., North Carolina, USA [Click for map]
Who: JohnyA (johnyA)
Notes:
found them growing on some decayed wood ….. deep in a deciduous forest about 3500 ft in the mountains not far from the Great Smoky Mountains. I have ruled out Cantharellus and jack o lantern…. note that the cap was 1.3 to 1.5 inches wide and they were an inch or so in height….
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Comments
Add Commentwhen they get big enough – by end of August… I plan on taking more photos and include some of the gills as well as spore prints….
someone asked if the color was true… as far as I can recollect yes… they were very rich orange color
the trees are mostly birch,maple,hemlock,beech, and poplars….
in the notes was the reason I went with X. kauffmanii
if so, it looks more like campanella.
X. kauffmanii should have a more yellow pileus, as well as be fruiting on hardwood, according to Orson Miller in “North American Mushrooms.”
I’m not sure if we get it out here in the west, but I’m pretty sure that I saw both species on my travels east. They are always fun to find.
there are lots of hemlocks in that area… not sure how close but at least within 30 feet or so of the mushrooms….
I looked at a bunch of my other photos that I have and I must say after looking in my mushroom books, I am 90% certain that it indeed is a Xeromphalina
thank you Debbie
would love to know what they are….
Xeromphalina campanella can be distinguished from X. enigmatica only by mating studies or DNA sequencing. They’re effectively identical in macroscopic features, microscopic features, chemical features, geographic location, and substrate preference.