http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MushroomTalk/ MushroomTalk Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:44:40 GMT ireneandersson77 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MushroomTalk/message/494 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MushroomTalk/message/494 ... Absolutely! It's also a disturbing name there as a synonym, Cortinarius sublanatus. Maybe they aren't synonyms after all, and there is one with beech Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:26:16 GMT Dimitar Bojantchev http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MushroomTalk/message/493 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MushroomTalk/message/493 ... Thank you Irene for the interesting informative postings all around. One of the things I noticed looking through Flora Agaricina Danica is that the C. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:02:03 GMT ireneandersson77 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MushroomTalk/message/492 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MushroomTalk/message/492 ... the ... ***). Yes, I have seen quite a few cotoneus on the island Gotland, and tomentose is what I'd call the caps. Their stems are always "swollen" and Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:10:35 GMT Dimitar Bojantchev http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MushroomTalk/message/491 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MushroomTalk/message/491 Moving along the Cortinariology route -- here is one beautiful, but apparently cosmopolitan Phlegmacium, described by Moser. His 2001-2002 studies with U. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:08:32 GMT Dimitar Bojantchev http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MushroomTalk/message/490 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MushroomTalk/message/490 This is one of those particularly non-descript Corts that it took me 2 1/2 years to id to a degree of confidence. Interestingly, I first suspected the name Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:00:18 GMT Dimitar Bojantchev http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MushroomTalk/message/489 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MushroomTalk/message/489 Back to this subject, which I really care about, but did not have the time to discuss last time it popped up. The concept of C. cotoneus that is generally Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:07:43 GMT Debbie Drechsler http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MushroomTalk/message/488 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MushroomTalk/message/488 ... 9 inches long with a 3x1 inch pronged crown growing in a single cespitose cluster. ... Can you give more information about where you are, where found, Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:51:01 GMT Dimitar Bojantchev http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MushroomTalk/message/487 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MushroomTalk/message/487 On another note Irene, what do you think of the pileal "bluishness" of our C. glaucopus? We seem to have several varieties/forms on the West Coast. One shows Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:12:52 GMT ireneandersson77 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MushroomTalk/message/486 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MushroomTalk/message/486 ... inches long with a 3x1 inch pronged crown growing in a single cespitose cluster. ... I have seen pictures of polypores with this abnormal growth, often Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:51:17 GMT ireneandersson77 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MushroomTalk/message/485 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MushroomTalk/message/485 ... Myxacium in the Delibuti section, but man, those spores, don't quite look like it. We'll wait for Irene to chime in. Well, that was my first impression Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:04:15 GMT James Edmonds http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MushroomTalk/message/484 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MushroomTalk/message/484 Two pictures of a strange mushroom. It grows pillars that are about 9 inches long with a 3x1 inch pronged crown growing in a single cespitose cluster. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:43:30 GMT Dimitar Bojantchev http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MushroomTalk/message/483 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MushroomTalk/message/483 While doing some research for the previous thread I stumbled on an old collection 2006-01-07 that I had recorded as Incoybe geophylla at the time. Looked at it Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:26:30 GMT Dimitar Bojantchev http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MushroomTalk/message/482 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MushroomTalk/message/482 Hi Ron, related to the thread -- the pileus of Inocybe is indeed described as "mostly" dry, but nothing in Nature seems to follow exactly our rules. Here are a Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:14:59 GMT Dimitar Bojantchev http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MushroomTalk/message/481 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MushroomTalk/message/481 Hi Ron, ... Did not mean to suggest there is something wrong with that. Sorry if I sounded snotty. Did not mean to appear "taking myself too seriously" either. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:53:44 GMT Ronpast@... http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MushroomTalk/message/480 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MushroomTalk/message/480 In a message dated 7/17/2008 10:22:46 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, dimitar@... writes: BTW, congratulations and appreciation for doing the basic