More mushrooms in Franklin Park

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These mushrooms have been coming up year after year by my office, which happens to be beneath some grand red oaks. These are Russula mushrooms, which are the reproductive part of a fungus that lives in concert with the roots of the oaks. The species is the viresens/crustosa complex, a group of closely related edible mushrooms I call "crackle top."


Other batches found in this spot have been greener or grayer, but this is the first time I've seen them with the orange sunrise in the middle. Another mushroom guy (on facebook) said 'it has a striate margin and brown center so I would call it "probably Russula parvovirescens" but here's a key: http://www2.muse.it/russulales-news/id_virescentinae.asp '


Other symbiotic fungi growing amongst the same roots include these Amanitas which I'm tentatively calling A. flavoconia.