Spore prints
You need a compound microscope to see most spore features but spore colour can be seen by the naked eye with the help of a spore print. It's simple to make a spore print from a mushroom: Cover the paper and cap with a bowl or tub of some sort - ... [... more]
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Morchella esculenta group
Description and distribution map for Morchella esculenta group in Australia. These are 'cup' fungi which have been turned inside out during their development so that the spore bearing layer is on the outside. There are several additional species ... [... more]
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Entoloma virescens
Description and distribution map for Entoloma virescens in Australia. Entoloma virescens, an agaric with intense sky blue fruit body; cap conical; spore print pink. RARE. [... more]
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Rozites metallica
Description and distribution map for Rozites metallica in Australia. Rozites metallica, an agaric with glutinous (very slimy) blue grey cap, brown with age, at first with small white scales; gills and spore print brown; stipe white with ... [... more]
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Mycena leaiana (Berk.) Sacc.
Description and distribution map for Mycena leaiana in Australia. Mycena leaiana is a small, clustered agaric with reddish brown cap; gills bright orange, with darker edges; stipe slimy. Spore print white. RARE. [... more]
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Rozites roseolilacina
Description and distribution map for Rozites roseolilacina in Australia. Rozites roseolilacina, an agaric with mauve-lilac cap, becoming yellowish, only greasy (not glutinous); gills and spore print brown; stipe white with membranous ring. RARE. [... more]
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Hebeloma aminophilum
Description and distribution map for Hebeloma aminophilum in Australia. Hebeloma aminophilum, an agaric with large (to 11 cm diam.) pinkish brown cap; gills and spore print pinkish brown; stem white; always on and around animal carcasses and ... [... more]
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Cyptotrama aspratum
Description and distribution map for Cyptotrama aspratum in Australia. Cyptotrama aspratum, an agaric with bright orange cap, covered by prominent conical warts; gills and spore print white. On wood. RARE. 1-5cm diameter, in Australia, usually ... [... more]
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Calostoma fuhreri
Description and distribution map for Calostoma fuhreri in Australia. Calostoma fuhreri, a puffball with short gelatinous stem (to 20 mm long) and globose mesoperidium (which contains the spore sac) up to 8 mm diam., mouth red. Outer layer not ... [... more]
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Schizostoma laceratum
Description and distribution map for Schizostoma laceratum in Australia. Stalked puffball with globose peridium (up to 25 mm diam.), dehiscing not by stoma (mouth) but by irregular fissuring from apex downwards, uncovering spore mass; stem to 3mm ... [... more]
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Dermocybe splendida
Description and distribution map for Dermocybe splendida in Australia. Dermocybe splendida. Robust agaric with intense orange-red gills; stipe yellow below, with yellow mycelium, orange-red above; cap red to brown; spore print brown. Up to 55mm ... [... more]
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Spore discharge and dispersal in mushrooms
Mushrooms are basidiomycetes (SEE TWO MAJOR GROUPS) with numerous basidia on each gill. A typical basidium is a club-shaped structure, usually with four prongs at one end. Each such prong is called a The structure of a gill is illustrated and ... [... more]
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