Winter mushrooms revisited
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I found these mushrooms about a week ago in my brush pile. A couple days later I dug them out to get a better look.

Their mycelium bound up a wad of soil with some rotten stems of plants (the substance that makes up most of the brush pile). That supports the likelihood that these are mushrooms produced by a saprobic fungus rather than a symbiotic species.

I wasn't handling them very long before they began to fall apart. This reveals that they are fragile, and that the stipe (stem) is hollow and fibrous.

After I cut the caps off of a couple of them and let them sit on white paper over night, they produced this cinnamon-brown spore print.

The short of it, is that they are still unidentified, but now I have more field markings to show people to try to get an identification.
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Date: 2015-01-01 12:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-01-01 03:28 am (UTC)Sounds pretty good to me. I tell my mushroom class students that if it isn't spectacular, delicious, or deadly, it's probably hard to identify.