Mushroom Identification needed?
Here are the pics:
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o180/…
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o180/…
Start with the genus Lycoperdon they are a globose type of puffball.
http://mushroomobserver.org/observer/obs…
http://images.google.com/images?ie=UTF-8…
Fungal dichotomous key for ID
http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/
http://www.fungaljungal.org/key/key.html
http://www.mycokey.com/
http://www.mushroomexpert.com/major_grou…
http://www.mycowiki.org/mycohome.htm
http://www.fungaljungal.org/guide/index….
http://www.mycology.cornell.edu/
http://www.pfc.forestry.ca/biodiversity/…
http://www.bio.brandeis.edu/fieldbio/Fun…
Tom Volk’s image library
http://tomvolkfungi.net/
Mushroom links
http://www.fungaljungal.org/fjlink.htm
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I went through 8 pages of mushroom images and didn’t find yours. I did find this information about poisonous mushrooms:
On the mushroom at the left notice that the stem bears a ring, also known as the annulus. Most mushrooms don’t have rings but some do. The presence or absence of a ring is one of the first things you need to notice when identifying mushrooms.
The same is true about the cuplike affairs known as cups, or volvas, which the mushroom at the top, right arises from. See the white, cuplike thing at the mushroom stalk’s base? Often you need to brush away leaves in order to be sure your mushroom does or does not arise from a cup.
The mushroom at the top, right possesses both a ring and a cup. Whenever you find a mushroom with both of these features, beware, because these are features of the main group of deadly poisonous mushrooms, members of the genus Amanita.
I found a photo that looks a lot like yours on a mushroom site. The caption said, “The cap of Phyllotopsis nidulans is distinctly velvety.”
It didn’t say any more about the particular mushroom, though.
They did say to feel free to send a photo and they would identify the mushroom. “I get a lot of enjoyment from helping folks identify mushrooms they’ve found: They e-mail me a few photos and I look to see whether it’s one I can identify on the basis of those photos. Often, one quick look is all it takes for me to recognize a distinctive species. Sometimes, no photo will facilitate positive identification, as many mushrooms require painstaking study, including microscopic examination of the spores and the spore-producing cells, to determine their identities.”
This is from David Fischer’s American Mushrooms. That is the americanmushrooms.com site in sources.
www.backyardnature.net/f/mush-id.htm
americanmushrooms.com/id.htm