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MushroomExpert.Com
This site is the creation of Michael Kuo. With some exceptions, the site is based on my collections of North American mushrooms, made over the past 25 years, and the more than 1200 species pages h...
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The Boletes (MushroomExpert.Com)
Imagine taking the cardboard tube from a roll of paper towels, and affixing a lot of seeds to the inside of the tube. Then repeat the procedure with many other tubes, and glue them together. Suspend a...
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Laetiporus cincinnatus (MushroomExpert.Com)
Laetiporus species in eastern North America,
Laetiporus cincinnatus is a butt rot or root rot fungus—which means it grows at the
bases of oak trees, rather than off the ground. While the "Queen City...
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Retiboletus ornatipes (MushroomExpert.Com)
This is a striking bolete with a yellow, coarsely reticulate stem (the species epithet
ornatipes means "ornate-stemmed") and a yellow to brown cap. Its surfaces do not bruise blue, and its cap surfa...
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The Genus Xerula (MushroomExpert.Com)
Xeruloid mushrooms comprise a sub-set of the collybioid mushrooms, and can be recognized by their tall and slender stature, their white spore prints and their tough, rooting stems, which taper undergr...
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Hypholoma capnoides (MushroomExpert.Com)
Description:
Ecology: Saprobic; growing in clusters or gregariously on or near decaying conifer logs, especially on the wood of pines and Douglas-fir; often common in pine plantations after trimming o...