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    Cranberry question

    I think I dealt with this in another forum, but to confirm, it is an infection of the Cranberry by the fungus Exobasidium oxycocci. As seen here, it completely alters the appearance of the plant, producing distorted shoots that turn red. The fungal spores are produced as a film over the...
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    Hawkbit? Hawksbeard? Please ID this for me

    This is Marsh Hawksbeard, Crepis paludosa. Note how the leaf-bases wrap around the stem ('amplexicaule'). Very few of the Hawkweeds (Hieracium) do this. And the current number of British Hawkweed species is 412! Alan
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    Chicken Mushroom

    LOL! Alan S
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    LBJ help please

    Hi Richard, first of all, after a night's sleep, I want to modify my suggestion. I think photos 2 and 3 are N. subconspersa, while photos 4 and 5 are N. striatula. Photo 1 shows a mixture of the two species. It is not uncommon for two (or more) Naucoria species to be intermingled. As for the...
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    Fungi for ID

    Hi SalidMonster, It looks like a Giant Puffball, Calvatia gigantea. It is not the only Giant Puffball species you have in the USA, but it should be the one you have in Tennessee. We have it here in the UK. Edible when young, if caught before the insides turn to dust (spores). (Usual...
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    Shaggy Pholiota? Comments welcome

    Add my vote for this being Pholiota squarrosa - which I agree is common enough on deciduous trees but which I have never seen on a conifer. I suggest a better identification book - one that is written for Britain rather than a translation of a book that may report different host behaviour in...
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    Is this Honey fungus? ID please

    Sorry Gerry, this is a useful summary, but please forgive me for disagreeing on a few points. A. cepestipes, although apparently (from DNA studies) a "real" species, is very poorly known and not yet confirmed for Britain (see the new Checklist). British records are a rather haphazard set of...
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    Unknown Boletus?

    The book I have referred to in my above posts is by Ladurner and Simonini: Fungi Europaei vol. 8, Xerocomus s.l. Published by Edizioni Candusso in Italy in 2003. Unlike some of the others in that series, which are primarily in Italian with briefer English summaries, this is fully bilingual...
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    Unknown Boletus?

    I fear that I have rather confused this thread with mentions of X. spadiceus and X. lanatus. I have done so in three ways: a) I mentioned confusion over names and concepts but didn't explain the extent of the confusion. b) I repeated a misleading synonymy in the new Checklist. c) I didn't look...
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    Is this Honey fungus? ID please

    Beautiful photographs, and, as Leif has said, it is indeed a honey fungus, but not the true Armillaria mellea. As well as the greenish colours in the cap, A. mellea has a very distinctive, very solid membrabous ring. In my view, this one is Armillaria borealis. The brown floccules on the ring...
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    LBJ help please

    Quick suggestion as I should not still be up at this time. It looks to me to be very like Naucoria subconspersa - chestnut brown, copious veil, occasional to frequent under alders. Much confused in the past with N. scolecina, which is much the same colour but has a less developed veil and is...
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    Cantharellus sp. and two unknown

    Looking at the photograph again, I agree with Gerry's reasoning. Alan
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    Unknown Boletus?

    Vitally important but missing information is the colour of the cut flesh. Yes, noted that there is a pink tinge under the cap cuticle, which is helpful to know, and noted that the cut flesh didn't change in colour, but what colour did the flesh not change from?? When I read this post I was...
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    Spore microscopy

    Intact basidia can be quite difficult to see. A section should help, but is not essential. They usually mature over a period, so any toadstool should have some in the right condition, but older fruitbodies tend to be better. I recommend Laccaria as good starting material. Basidia seem to be...
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    Fungi ID Help Please

    I agree with Leif that it is a Lactarius. I am a bit puzzled that it was only "watery" when cut. The rather pale Lactarius with very watery milk is L. serifluus, but it doesn't look quite right for that, and it is not a species of conifers. From the general appearance and texture of the cap...
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