Sarcodon (70) [2008-10-23 0:56] [+]

Hi Doreen,

Your photo shows Fomitopsis pinicola (Swarz 1810 : Fries 1821) Karsten 1881. The drops of liquid are typical of this specie, on the surface where the specimen is growing.

By
MArco DM

Sarcodon (70) [2008-10-07 3:29] [+]

Hi Tadeusz,

your good photo shows Daedaleopsis tricolor (Bulliard 1791) Bondartsev & Singer 1941, very common all over the world.

By
Marco DM

Sarcodon (70) [2008-09-24 7:12] [+]

Hi Szabo,

yours is a very good photo, the specimens are well captured and we can see the main features that are the pileus covered with silk-like fibres (fiblillose) and the edge of the pileus not striate (always striate in Amanitopsis sub-genus to which belongs Amanita vaginata and its group).

This is Volvariella gloiocephala (De Candolle 1815 : Fries 1821) Boekhout & Enderle 1986, very common.

By Marco DM

Sarcodon (70) [2008-09-16 4:01] [+]

Hi Ryszard,

this isn't Gomphidius roseus (Fries 1821: Fries 1824) Fries 1838, but a young specimen of Suillus grevillei (Klotzsch 1832: Fries 1836) Singer 1945, very very different in all parts: Hymenium (tubulus instead of gills and adnate instead of deccurrent), colour (yellow-orange instead of pink, inde nomen, roseus=with pink colour), flesh (yellow instead of white and becoming black), ecc...

by Marco

Sarcodon (70) [2008-09-16 3:49] [+]

Hi Pawel,

this is an old specimen of Suillus bovinus (Persoon 1753 : Fries 1821) Roussel 1898, not Xerocomus badius (Fries 1818 : Fries 1821) Kuehner, with very different aspect.

by Marco

Sarcodon (70) [2008-09-11 0:54] [+]

I Janice,

good colour but it isn't Suillus ochraceoroseus (Snell 1941) Singer 1973 = Fuscoboletinus ochraceoroseus (Snell 1941) Pomerleau & Smith 1962! It neither is a Suillus, but a Russula!

Suillus species have very different aspect, they have not bright colour and never have colours so red. This is a species with gills (Russula), not with tubulus as in Suillus genus.

by Marco

Sarcodon (70) [2008-08-12 5:00] [2] [+]

Hi Murray,

good photo showing Ganoderma resinaceum Boud 1889, without any doubt, very common and easy to identify for its shiny and smooth surface with violet-purple to brown colours, and without stalk.

by Marco

Sarcodon (70) [2008-07-25 8:18]

Hi Laszlo,

in this case, it can really be Leccinum aurantiacum because it has too orange colour to be Leccinum quercinum and too white stipe to be Leccinum versipelle.
About honza's critique look: http://www.treknature.com/read.php?f=2&t=115438&m=146063

About yout answer to Jan, attention to the habitat. L. quercinum grows under all kind of broad-leaved: Castanes sp., Quercus sp., Betula sp. ecc..., and also Populus sp., often with L. aurantiacum, at the same time.
Moreover, in scientific and strict mycology you can't use habitat as distinctive caracteristic

by
Marco DM

Sarcodon (70) [2008-07-25 7:40] [+]

Hi Laszlo,

a question about this photo: which was the altitude of the area?
I ask you this because the specimens seems a little strange as Armillaria mellea (not Armillariella).
Armillaria mellea has scales on the cap less evident and ring on the stem always with yellow colour near the edge.

Your photo maybe show Armillaria ostoyae, with brown colour on the ring, dark scale and habitat above 1000 meters of altitude on coniferous wood, when Armillaria mellea is very, very rare.

by, Marco DM

Sarcodon (70) [2008-06-09 2:12] [+]

Hi Felipe and Cristina, another very very good photo.

About ID, try to check Hebeloma sinapizans (Paulet) Saccardo, then, if this identification doesn't convince you, I'll tell you more on this specie ... but note with attention the stem decoration ... very important and typical for this specie.

by
Marco DM