When: 2011-04-25
Collection location: Habersham Co., Georgia, USA [Click for map]
Who: AmatoxinApocalypse (AmatoxinApocalypse)
Notes:
-Growing in large troupes from buried wood.
-Older ones smelled like soaked mushrooms, and faint mushroom odor on freshest specimens.
-Annulus tougher than expected, and still intact after drying some specimens to add to ye ole herbarium.
-Pileus was hygrophanous, see pictures for spore color.
-Stipe was fairly sturdy on the younger guys, long and slightly bulbous at the base.
I have never encountered a Psathyrella sp. with an annulus.
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| User’s votes are weighted by their contribution to the site (log10 contribution). In addition, the user who created the observation gets an extra vote. | |||||||||
| Vote | Score | Weight | Users | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I’d Call It That | 3.0 | 6.15 | 2 | (AmatoxinApocalypse,Fungi) | |||||
| Promising | 2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Could Be | 1.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Doubtful | -1.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Not Likely | -2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| As If! | -3.0 | 10.59 | 2 | (Byrain,Alan Rockefeller) | |||||
| Overall Score sum(score * weight) / (total weight + 1) |
-0.75 | -25.03% | |||||||
| User’s votes are weighted by their contribution to the site (log10 contribution). In addition, the user who created the observation gets an extra vote. | |||||||||
| Vote | Score | Weight | Users | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I’d Call It That | 3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Promising | 2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Could Be | 1.0 | 5.83 | 1 | (Alan Rockefeller) | |||||
| Doubtful | -1.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Not Likely | -2.0 | 5.37 | 1 | (AmatoxinApocalypse) | |||||
| As If! | -3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Overall Score sum(score * weight) / (total weight + 1) |
-0.40 | -13.40% | |||||||
| User’s votes are weighted by their contribution to the site (log10 contribution). In addition, the user who created the observation gets an extra vote. | |||||||||
| Vote | Score | Weight | Users | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I’d Call It That | 3.0 | 5.83 | 1 | (Alan Rockefeller) | |||||
| Promising | 2.0 | 4.76 | 1 | (Byrain) | |||||
| Could Be | 1.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Doubtful | -1.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Not Likely | -2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| As If! | -3.0 | 6.15 | 2 | (AmatoxinApocalypse,Fungi) | |||||
| Overall Score sum(score * weight) / (total weight + 1) |
0.48 | 16.10% | |||||||
| User’s votes are weighted by their contribution to the site (log10 contribution). In addition, the user who created the observation gets an extra vote. | |||||||||
| Vote | Score | Weight | Users | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I’d Call It That | 3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Promising | 2.0 | 3.69 | 1 | (Ιερονυμοσ) | |||||
| Could Be | 1.0 | 10.14 | 2 | (Alan Rockefeller,Riverdweller) | |||||
| Doubtful | -1.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Not Likely | -2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| As If! | -3.0 | 5.57 | 1 | (Mycowalt) | |||||
| Overall Score sum(score * weight) / (total weight + 1) |
0.04 | 1.31% | |||||||
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Due to the look of the gills, spore print color, and habitat. But mostly the look of the gills. Check the odor/taste.
Please explain why you think this is an Agrocybe sp., in detail if you can.
Hmmm, I guess I would not have thought Agrocybe sp. because of the brittle stipe. The only specimens which had “fairly” tough stems were the youngest specimens.
Also confusing is the range of spore color from what I have read in numerous field guides and online sources the spore color can range from: brown, black, dark purple/black, dark purple/brown, and dark purlple/gray.
Odor – Kinda sweet, fungoid, smelled rather good.
Taste – Like a watered down mushroom, slightly sweet.
I thought that Agrocybe sp. had tough stems, the majority of these were silky white and brittle. I am not doubting you Alan, just trying to learn about some mushrooms I have never encountered before.
I have been hunting over some of the same areas for the last 5 years, I want to observe how the fungi that grow in these areas change as time goes on. I have seen some fungi grow for 2-3 years, then new mushrooms seem to take over. Is there any information regarding how mushrooms in a certain habitat change as time goes on? As food sources for some species of fungi disappeared it seemed like others would come in and finish up what the “first wave” did not finish, does that make sense?