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Hi Steve, i cannot tell you what this is neither, if T. helvelloides could be an option, ripe fruitbodies should look like this beneath the microscope, you could compare in case. Kind regards, Ingo

Ps: personally I rather not think it is tremiscus. I have no other idea unfortunately. So i am looking forward to how it develops!

Hi Ogni-Volta. You don't have the little man/woman icon lol! I have looked at the link provided showing mycelia of T. helvelloides. One thing in common, there is nothing exciting to see! Your image also fail to show distinct reproductive parts and spores. If I am not tired, I try another round of examinations tonight. I keep you posted and I will travel again to the island I found this population soon.

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Ooopsss !!!! I didn't realize you are female - I thought all those who have replied were men. No open intended!

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No problem, Steve! I was just joking, I'm not offended.

Just wanted to let you know who's writing... it's been my fault...you couldn't see it from my new profile picture.

My avatar before this one looked like this:

...by the way, I'm really excited about your mushroom babies and I'm looking forward to the solution.

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Thanks for the artistic explanation Kruni/ Kagi. I never noticed the micro man/woman icon there - so sweet! Nice ex-avatar pic too. I do my best to get a solution. We wait for it to grow a bit more. Lot of nice people here trying to help! I love it. My M.Sc. is really gonna be interesting.

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Zitat von Steve_mt

Dear gentlemen, thank you for interest, comments and valuable suggestions about this fungus. I start tackling all your questions here, and micro in the next post. (...)

Hi steve,

dear Lady and Gentlemen would have been nicer ...: clink:

[user = '17652'] Ahemi [/ user]: What a pity that our idea is no more a good idea. I didn't know how they look inside, as I never cut one. : gkopfkratz: Of course you're also right with the color: That of Steve's specimens is far too orange, as one can see in the pic with the cut cuticle.

Ooopsss !!!! I didn't realize you are female - I thought all those who have replied were men. No offence intended!

So my action plan is:

• Open the soil to see if I detect wooden debris that the fruiting bodies are growing from
• Dissect two specimens and dry them 35C
• Leave one specimen to mature at home (if possible)
• Revisit population this Friday maybe specimens are mature and re-examine

A note. The orange inside may mean that the mature basidiocarp will open like a cup having an abaxial (lower surface) the one seeing now and an adaxial (upper) surface, the one inside. On the other hand, the tubular hyphae are distinct for a Basidiomycete, not an ascomycete (usually having spherical / prismatic cells).

Zitat von Oehrling

Hello Herman,

Cortinarius determination by photo is almost never successful, as there are 1000 different cortinaries. There are definitely 100 cortinaries that look like the fungus in your photo.

FG

Oehrling

... and there are 2 or 3 that their micro features are also almost identical too (= sequencing saves the day)

Hi, when taking one specimen, I had pulled it out completely and there was nothing attached to it. So strange, as if it was terrestrial! Here only var. ferrulea is recorded while in the past var. nebrodensis was recorded probably in mistake, and coincidentally for being small and regular in shape. var. ferulae is typically 8 - 25cm, unsymmetrical, eccentric stype, attached to dead old stems of Ferula communis. (huge plant with perennial roots)

Now you must really see this 😱

KR100954964B1 - A novel pleurotus eryngii var. ferulae strain ddl01 and method of producing it - Google Patents

It looks similar isn't it! Colours, shape, small size!

Anyway, i will certainly write back if I have news from Venturella. I write to him today.

Thanks for Yr help. 💗

Images

Zitat von Schupfnudel

This kinda looks Pleurotus to me. I don't know if you guys have Pleurotus eryngii but might be worth checking against. There are several varieties described depending on the host plants so might be worth to check plants nearby too.

Disclaimer: I've never found this species before so I might be wrong.

LG.

Pablo!!! You are correct about Pleurotus . Cylindrical-ellipsoid spores (Q>3), lack of cystidia, pileipellis a cutis of entangled hyphae. Yet I cant believe it is an eryngii if they are 2cm when fully developed, stipe central, no Ferula close by!!! I dry my specimen and show my finding to Prof. Giuseppe Venturella. If its relly eryngii, then it is really variable!

Microscopy:

I dissected the largest specimen I have and clearly it contains a thin cuticle (0.2mm) which is salmon-apricot sitting on a medullary tissue which is white/pale orange. There is a core which is again colorful.

The microscopy is boring and it is obvious that the specimen is immature. No spores has been observed, nor basidia or special reproductive organs. What I have seen is two types of mycelia or hyphal tissue.

1. The cuticle consists of a dense tangled-intricated hyphae about 3um wide and curly / vermicular ending with an acute tip. They have many vacuolues

2. The inner layer consist of parallel running oblong/tubular hyphae, curved/sigmoid but less intertwined or entangled as tissue in 1 and about 8-12 um thick. The transversal hypha are quite straight and perpendicular to the sides. Walls smooth, contents hyaline.

That's it

Dear gentlemen, thank you for interest, comments and valuable suggestions about this fungus. I start tackling all your questions here, and micro in the next post.

After a hard day at work, and sipping down my coffee, i was flipping Zannichelli fungi d'italia and spotted a fungus similar to mine - Guepinia helvelloides (sp. #1545) which is the same as what have been kindly suggested - Tremiscus helvelloides, but then the size (3-12cm) the habitat (mountain) and substrate (wood debris) did not match at all. This is about 1-2cm

Quick answers:

Is it growing on wood in the ground? - I did not see obvious wood parts in the compact calcareous soil, but it was growing under bushes of Pistaccia lentiscus (woody perennial) and it cannot be excluded to have small decaying twigs in the soil - honestly I don't think it is the case.

Dry at 35C for sequencing: Yes I can

Revisit site: It is in a remote place but I can

Infected: No it is healthy

Mature specimens: Those at home no

Is T. helvelloides specific to wood : On the net I see some images of this species surrounded by moss

What does it match : The salmon-apricot colour, the fine pruinosity, the attenuated stipe coloured pale yellow or white, the wrinkled unsmoouth surface.

Microscopy : yes, see post below

I know quite well Pleurotus eryngii which grows on dead Ferula sp. (giant fennel) and I saw a few hundreds of examples and they are pretty large specimens. These were less than 2 cm. I have found this on ground covered by fallen old leaves of Punica granatum. Roots and basal mycelium white with some yellowish tinge and quite deep into the soil (terrestrial ?). There was a distinct root.

I do that tomorrow

I got that idea because I can see light (= hollow / depressed centre). Also the large-sized pileus (15 cm across) triggered that species, yet I just suggested without any solid determination.

At first, I thought this is some small Gomphidius but it lacks a ring (ring scar), pileus not moist or slimy and the stipe is a bit different too. I defaulted to Clitocybe (nebularis?) but I am not saying that is the genus, just logic thoughts. The two specimens were ca. 1.5 cm across and short.

Are they really decurrent or raised at an angle due to the orientation of the pileus? ( kinda a bit funnel-shaped) ?

Is it Coriolopsis gallica please? I have a sample at home. The hispid upper surface, habitat and colours of the Hymenium suggest this species.

Hello Germany. I hope you can help me with this exciting finding growing on wet soil covered with moss.

I have collected a sample (including soil) and stored it in the fridge so as I want to have advice from you on how to proceed to determine the genus (and species!).

I noticed a pruinosity on the surface, when slightly touched, the outer surface easily breaks in releasing its sap and hence the pruinosity islost leaving a darker color (hope I explained myself well here). There seams to be a stipe that is yellowish. Verry irregular fruiting bodies. It is not in my opinion: Leotia, Auricularia or Dacrymyces (but D. palmata looks a bit similar, but this is a wood saprotroph).

If these photos can't tell the species I am interested to learn how to carry on. I have three (four) specimens.

I has similarities with Megacollybia platyphylla

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Eckelig, EVERYONE

Oh, the green Knolli still looks delicious == Gnolm7

And if the Steinis weren't bad, they'd probably be good too.

And with the stinker, the tastiest thing is already gone.
A suitable method of preparation would only have to be invented for the "snails".
Unfortunately nothing pissed off from me and Irisle ...

Greetings from Ali

Wutzi has already got a message from me

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As rotten as it is, I will never touch it!

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Yeah... I don't like to eat left overs too 😅

We don't have those Russulas 😭😭😭 Can I apply to some chemical or compound instead? Or fabric or ironmongery material.

I have acquired an old bottle with Guaiac reagent which was evaporated in its reagent bottle (10-15 mls). I added alcohol and the reagent dissolved forming a brown solution without precipitate. I don't know if this solution is working (reacting) well or if it has 'expired', hence how can I test it at home pls? Like I am asking how can I test for Lugol's iodine and the reply would be try it on starch or paper and if it turns blackish-blue it is working fine. Thanks

I have concluded upon M. olivaceomarginata based on the text by Aronsen fabolous website:

One should also notice a possible confusion [of M. capilleripes] with Mycena olivaceomarginata (Massee) Massee, which sometimes has a greyish brown pileus with a reddish brown center as well as a stipe with a dingy whitish apex and greyish brown colors below, and a nitrous smell. The two species can be told apart on account of the cheilocystidia. In M. capillaripes they are smooth while they are more varied in M. olivaceomarginata , often with two or three necks or with several coarse excrescences. The Latter therefore lacks pleurocystidia.

Moreover, Mycena olivaceomarginata has been reported and associated with Cistus matorral (specifically C. monspeliensis) while M. capilleripes is associated with pine forests. Loizides 2016, 2021

Hi, are here some mycenologists? I have found two interesting Mycena species (I am working / documenting one of them here) which was found under Cistus monspeliensis. The species has striking lilac then rosy-pink gill edges hence a species from the section Rubromarginatae.

I can't decide between

Mycena capillaripes and M. olivaceomarginata

I read somewhere that olivaceomarginata was recorded under cistus monspeliensis too (Lozoides)

Zitat von Beorn

They should be more or less soft when young and crumbly when decaying.

Lg; pablo.

Yes, that's what the case and also dark reddish-brown when overmature and decaying out. I think I found a similar specimen on Celtis australis again above grown and on the bark of a living tree on mainland Malta. Crumbling brown debris was at the foot of the trunk and fall down on the ground

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They are really ennoying under the microscope! Hard, dense - difficult to prepare and difficult to interprete.: gkopfkratz:

Yes, I haven't grasped very well the concept of monomitic / dimitic / trimitic, generative hyphae, skeletal hypha, etc when examining under the microscope. They just look like a brush of unspecialised mycelia entangled into each other. I had a look again this morning and I an interesting parasite!

Wow! ...and I was sure it was a Panaeolus sp. for its marbled face and white edge of the gills. So are there more genera which are Panaeolus-like and have these characters ??? Fungi are very confusing!

Axel and Karl - I think you are bull's eye regards your kind suggested identity. The pic is identical! Tonight or tmrw I compare and show you the spores. Their hexagon-like thick outline seems quite unique. THANK YOU again.

Deconica coprophila ( syn. Psilocybe coprophila ) aka the dung-loving psilocybe (lol!)