All That the Rain Promises and More: A Hip Pocket Guide to Western Mushrooms by David Arora

Author:David Arora [Arora, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Non-Fiction, Field Guide, Reference, Environment, Nature, Food, Horticulture, Gardening, Science, Biology
ISBN: 9780307809469
Publisher: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
Published: 1991-01-31T23:00:00+00:00

Key Features:

1. Cap buff to yellow or yellow-brown.

2. Surface of cap sticky or slimy when moist, bald.

3. Edge of cap adorned with cottony white veil tissue.

4. Mature gills gray to purple-gray or black, usually attached to stalk.

5. Stalk with a shaggy coating of soft white scales.

6. Veil present, at first covering gills, then shredding into many pieces that dangle from edge of cap, and sometimes also forming a slight ring on stalk.

7. Spores deeply colored (dark purple-brown to black).

Other Features: Medium-sized, usually tall and slender; cap domed at first, flat in age; gills occasionally pulling away from stalk in age; white threads often emanating from base; volva absent.

Where: On ground, rich soil, or wood chips in forests and at their edges; common on West Coast. It favors cold, damp situations.

Edibility: Not recommended.

Note: This is an elegant mushroom in its prime. The bald, sticky or slimy cap and attached gills distinguish it from Agaricus, while Amanita has much paler gills. S. hornemanni is a similar woodland species with a yellow-brown, red-brown, or gray-purple cap and well-developed ring on the stalk. See MD 377–380 and plate 89.

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