Are these rare or common? I’ve found 3 in the past two days.
I used a Canon Rebel EOS T6 and a remote shutter app to take these images. (And obviously a microscope). I consider these to be some of the best images I’ve ever taken. These were taken after I brought the mushrooms back from the field to my backyard.
Habitat: Growing in leaf litter near Thuja, Acer, Alnum, Tsuga, and Ilex species. Growing next to one other specimen.
Cap: Not applicable here I think. Puff-ball like. I don’t know the anatomy behind these genera. So I’m gonna skip down to spore print.
Spore print: Dark brown.
Spore morphology: Roughly spherical, ornamented.
Spore measurements:
3.2 - 3.9 (4.1) × (2.8) 3.1 - 3.7 (4.1) µm
Q = 1 - 1.08 (1.1) ; N = 24
Me = 3.5 × 3.4 µm ; Qe = 1
Observation #386
Small tree with bright red berries and shiny brown stippled bark.
Small tree with bright red berries and shiny brown stippled bark.
Choking out the restoration work on this edge of the belt.
Choking out the restoration work on this edge of the belt.
According to my reptile expert friend