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urbpan ([personal profile] urbpan) wrote2011-09-30 07:29 pm

Even more mushrooms in my yard!



Here are some more Probably Mycenas, growing from a shaded stump in the front area, underneath the shagbark (really underneath a burning bush, which is underneath the shagbark).



Remember ten days ago when I posted Entoloma abortivum as 100 species number 93? No? Fine, Here, go look, I'll wait.

Cool, right? But I said that two mushroom-producing fungi were involved in the production of the aborted form, and then didn't show the non-aborted forms. I felt bad about that, then they both came up in my yard and I took pictures of them, and here they are.


These are the Entolomas, they are identified by their grey caps, and by the fairly rare attribute of pink spores. Not vaguely pink light brown spores, but real pink spores, and kind of a lot of them.


The higher mushroom has released a lot of pink spores on top of the gray cap of the lower one, and onto the roots and plants (dwarf cinquefoil I believe) as well.

These properly formed entoloma mushrooms came up a few days after the aborted ones (September 28th).


Then, a couple days later (this afternoon) I noticed next to the entolomas was this huge group of honey-colored mushrooms, also on the roots of the Norway maple in the area.


I feel pretty confident that these are the Armillaria mushrooms that are being parasitized by the entoloma fungus, but I haven't taken the time to key them out (there is no obvious ring, for example, which should be present). Honey mushroom fungus is a parasite of tree roots, and I'm wondering if this will negatively impact the trees we want to plant in our yard.

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