theresa_kadish's Identifications

Common Name: Blood Red Russula
Species Name: Russula rosacea
Location Name: Chenango Valley State Park
Ecology and Substrate Description: Mycorrhizal, often found in humus in hardwood forests.
Morphology Description: Cap bright red ranging from 2-10 cm in width, gills are white and close, stipe bright white and textured, stipe chalky.
Fun Fact: Russula are also known as "Brittlegills" and are typically characterized by a white stem, white gills, and colored cap.

Common Name: False Death-Cap/Citron Amanita
Species Name: Amanita citrina
Location Name: Chenango Valley State Park
Ecology and Substrate: Mycorrhizal, often found on ground in pine and hardwood forests.
Morphology Description: Cap pale yellow-green and ranging from 4-13 cm in width, gills white and crowded, stipe white and fibrous, stipe has annulus and large volva at base, stipe length ranging from 6-14 cm.
Fun Fact: This mushroom is not typically deadly when consumed, but it does look very similar to the death cup which is a deadly amanita.

060 Pseudohydnum gelatinosum (Bres.) Kobayasi (1954)
MB #352437
COLLECTION: East Brook Farm, Walton, NY (PC - Pinus Creek)
ECOLOGY: Saprobic on the wood and debris of conifers; found growing alone, scattered, or gregariously; sometimes in overlapping clusters; late summer and fall.
DESCRIPTION: Cap 1-3 cm across; tongue-shaped to kidney-shaped; flat; tacky; translucent white; margin slightly inward when young. Undersurface of the cap has spines that run down the stem; spines translucent white to pale gray. Stem up to 3 cm long; some found growing on sides of logs or on sticks are lateral and/or stubby, those found growing on terrestrial woody debri have vertical stems; similar color to cap. Flesh translucent; gelatinous.
COMMENTS: The ontogeny of the gelatinous flesh of this species begins with a mesh-like, non-gelatinous hyphal central tissue. As the hyphae begin to deteriorate, a gel is produced. An exterior rind is formed encasing the gel discretion which becomes dense and gelatinous (Moore 1965).