Observation 8638: Heimioporus betula (Schwein.) E. Horak (Site ID) (Aureoboletus betula)
When: 2008-07-26
Collection location: Pink Beds Trail, Pisgah Forest, North Carolina, USA [Click for map]
Who: Debbie Viess (amanitarita)
No specimen available
Notes:
Another striking Eastern bolete.
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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 | 10.55 | 2 | (Noah) | |||||
| Promising | 2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Could Be | 1.0 | 9.76 | 2 | (nathan) | |||||
| Doubtful | -1.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Not Likely | -2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| As If! | -3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Overall Score sum(score * weight) / (total weight + 1) |
1.94 | 64.77% | |||||||
| 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 | 17.08 | 4 | (royh,Some Guy,nathan) | |||||
| 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 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Overall Score sum(score * weight) / (total weight + 1) |
2.83 | 94.47% | |||||||
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sigh. another day, another name change…
By: Debbie Viess (amanitarita)
2009-05-01 07:11:49 PDT (-0700)
IMHO, naming is good hypothesis driven science. A name is published (like describing a new species for example) and it would be a hypothesis proposed by that describer based on sound tenets of that science (hopefully). Other folks test that hypothesis by collecting and examining the organism, comparing it to others and generally noting whether all information about that organism fits the working criteria at the time. If it doesn’t fit, the hypothesis is revised (placed in another genus for example). At one time, the Fly Agaric was placed in Agaricus.