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Forest mushrooms The fall forest is absolutely bursting with fungi - I'll do my best to identify the mushrooms I post, but since I like being quite sure of myself when I do name things, I find them to be rather challenging… most of the fungi I come across seems to have too many look alikes and without picking them really sure identification may not be possible. Armillaria mellea,Geotagged,United States Click/tap to enlarge Species introCountry intro

Forest mushrooms

The fall forest is absolutely bursting with fungi - I'll do my best to identify the mushrooms I post, but since I like being quite sure of myself when I do name things, I find them to be rather challenging… most of the fungi I come across seems to have too many look alikes and without picking them really sure identification may not be possible.

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    Ferdy Christant
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    I know how that feels, they are such a mystery. Often I struggled for hours to identify just one, being happy to have found a match. Then months later I learned I was complete off. You are free to identify a "likely match" for fungi, based on visual appearance and distribution. I think that's all we can do, without a microscope. Posted 10 years ago

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Armillaria mellea is a basidiomycete fungus in the genus "Armillaria". It is a plant pathogen and part of a cryptic species complex of closely related and morphologically similar species. It causes Armillaria root rot in many plant species and produces mushrooms around the base of trees it has infected.

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Uploaded Oct 7, 2014. Captured Oct 5, 2014 11:52 in Spray Park Trail, Mount Rainier National Park, Ashford, WA 98304, USA.
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