Look at these large festive.... mushrooms? #GreatDayForaWalk

in #nature7 years ago

While walking I came upon these large beautiful Jack O'Lantern Mushrooms. They grow in clusters on wood, its colors are bright orange, its gills run down the stem.

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The Jack O'Lantern mushroom is sometimes confused with chanterelles. Do not eat The Jack O Lanterns- they are poisonous.

Gills: Running down the stem; close or crowded; bright orange to pale orange; luminescent when fresh.

Description:

Ecology: Saprobic; growing in large clusters on the stumps or buried roots of hardwoods, especially oaks; late summer and fall; widely distributed and common east of the Rocky Mountains; very rare in western North America. Also found in northern and central Europe. The illustrated and described collections are from Illinois and Québec.

Cap: 3-20 cm; at first convex, with a central bump or point; becoming more or less flat, and eventually shallowly vase-shaped--but usually retaining a small central "nipple"; bald; dry or slightly greasy; bright orange to pumpkin orange; the margin inrolled when young.

Gills: Running down the stem; close or crowded; bright orange to pale orange; luminescent when fresh.

Stem: 3-13 cm long; 1-2 cm thick; tapering to base; solid; bald; pale orange to orange.

Flesh: Pale orange; unchanging when sliced.

Odor and Taste: Odor not distinctive.

Chemical Reactions: KOH green on cap surface; ammonia greenish on cap surface.

Spore Print: White to creamy or pale yellow.

Microscopic Features: Spores 3.5-4.5 µ; subglobose; smooth; hyaline to yellowish in KOH. Hymenial cystidia absent. Pileipellis a cutis of clamped, cylindric elements 2.5-7.5 µ wide; yellow in KOH. Refractive elements scattered to frequent in the pileipellis and subpellis.
More info here: http://www.mushroomexpert.com/omphalotus_illudens.html

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