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When: 2008-08-15
Collection location:
Surprise Lake, Snohomish County, WA [Click for map]
Who:
Sam Linse (BearwoodSam)
No herbarium specimen
Notes: Among the dozen or so species we found on the hike to Surprise Lake this has got to be the most bizarre.
Found on the trail in mature sitka spruce, douglas fir, western hemlock, western red cedar forest at about 1000M elevation. Two clumps of this fungus rose from the dirt about a foot away from each other. Smelled a bit chemical, and when broken apart it turned slightly blue for a bit. It later reverted to a soft yellow flesh.
Hope someone can help identify this.
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Created: 2008-08-20 23:57:37
By: Joshua Birkebak (Shua)
Summary: great fun!
That was a great find and thread! This is why I love this site! Such fun working through this species!
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Created: 2008-08-20 20:51:44
By: debbie viess (amanitarita)
Summary: Thanks, Darv. Gastroboletus ruber it is!
The “USDA Handbook to Strategy 1 Fungal Species” that you linked to had an excellant description explaining the “pseudo”-reticulum; it is apparently caused by remnants of a normally evanescent peridium, which covers the apical pore mouths, but in this case persists, and then depresses in a way that resembles reticulum. The Bessetts book and other online sources didn’t mention it.
Everything else fits too, altho that’s the same lousy photo, in even poorer quality, that I tracked down online yesterday.
Sam’s photo is waaaaay better; maybe they’ll use his in the next addition!
BTW Sam, check/correct the above spelling of Gastroboletus. Other than that, I think our work is done here.
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Created: 2008-08-20 16:34:54
By: debbie viess (amanitarita)
Summary: wish your hunting grounds were a wee bit closer…
…I’d be there in a flash.
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Created: 2008-08-20 14:35:44
By: Sam Linse (BearwoodSam)
Summary: anyone for a hike?
it might still be there, I saw it on Friday the 15th. I could tell you approximately where it was on the trail.
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Created: 2008-08-20 09:47:00
By: debbie viess (amanitarita)
Summary: …back to the drawing board…
the other photos of G.ruber that I saw online looked vaguely like your mushroom, but weren’t sharp; of all of the descriptions that I could find this morning, NONE mentioned the unusual and highly distinctive cap reticulation. I think that you have an undescribed species here…too bad you didn’t save it.
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Created: 2008-08-19 11:56:39
By: debbie viess (amanitarita)
Summary: Don’t belittle yourself…the more one knows, the more one knows how little one knows!
…and this is the beauty of Nathan’s cooperative site…we all build upon each others knowledge.
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Created: 2008-08-19 11:28:56
By: Sam Linse (BearwoodSam)
Summary: Just a novice here
You did 95% of the work Debbie. It was your suggested name that led me to the rubus. Otherwise I’d have never known where to start. Thank you both!
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Created: 2008-08-19 10:44:06
By: debbie viess (amanitarita)
Summary: Round fungi into a square hole…
Yup, turbinatus was a catch-all; I don’t have the secotiod boletes books to go much deeper…shoulda done an internet search! Nice job, Sam; looks like ruber is a match…and YOUR photos are way nicer! ;)
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Created: 2008-08-18 18:16:02
By: Joshua Birkebak (Shua)
Summary: well..
Truly an interesting find! I would not call it gastroboletus turbinatus though… That species as a rather normal, velvety pileus and a rather different stature… The somewhat reticulate surface is really interesting!
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Observation Created: Mon Aug 18 14:40:21 -0700 2008
Last Modified: Mon Aug 18 14:40:21 -0700 2008 by Sam Linse (BearwoodSam)
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Gastroboletus ruber (17816)
Gastroboletus ruber (17817)
Gastroboletus ruber (17818)
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Gastroboletus ruber (17823)
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