Yellow and black striped body. White and black polka dot wings
Growing partially submerged in soil, fully covered in woodland duff in low woodland area below mixed oak woodland slope.
Nearby Trees: Chinkapin American Hophornbeam, Pawpaw, Elm, Red Mulberry, and Black Walnut.
Smell: rotten eggs (sulfuric)
Microscopy: Mounted in Melzer's.
0.5inch puffballs with an opening on top. Stalk about 1 inch. Growing individually (not in dense clusters) from the ground between leaf litter.
Why is this in Nebraska?????
-Growing gregariously on open mixed oak/hickory woodland ridge.
-Nearby Trees: Chinkapin Oak, Black Oak, American Hophornbeam, Bur Oak, Northern Red Oak, and distant Black Walnut.
-Cap, when young, subtomentose, red wine color in the center, fading to lighter shades of red towards the margin. Margin light colored.
-Stipe hollow with central pith, red developing lateral cracks, creating lighter shades of red. Basal mycelium white.
-Hymenium consisting of white round pores, not bruising where damaged.
-Smell: Not distinctive.
-Taste: Not distinctive.
-KOH: Fading cap color (slowly).
-Growing solitarily on open mixed oak/hickory woodland ridge.
-Nearby Trees: Bitternut Hickory, Ash, American Hophornbeam, Black Oak, and distant Chinkapin Oak.
-All portions white.
-Cap bald, slightly tacky.
-Lamellae free from stipe.
-Stipe with prominent annulus 1/4 down the stem and a large bulbus, sack-like volva at the base.
Smell: Not distinctive.
Taste: Not distinctive.
KOH: Negative on cap and slightly darkening stipe.
Foray 0
Growing well decayed elm log in oak woodland draw. Annulus intact. Taste and smell nondistinctive.Younger caps have wrinkled pattern (almost similar to Rhodotus palmatus). Spore print brown.
Brittle texture
It bled red when cutting. Looked like raw meat when sliced. Smelled and looked like beef when frying in butter. Had a sour but pleasant taste. Found in the hollow of an oak tree
Growing from soil in the banks above trail. Top of caps shiny/iridescent. Flesh leathery and tough. Underside with irregular shaped pores and centrally located stem. KOH black on surfaces.
It grew to about a foot in diameter. Notably, the gills don't extend into the stem, but they could be veiled. I didn't disect it ... or eat it for that matter.
Growing on old hardwood log (most likely an oak) in woodland. Red oaks and bur oaks in the area.
Growing on hardwood twig.