Blades, pores and other forms
Not everyone has the same drawing under their hat.
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The guide distinguishes groups with blades, folds, pores or specks. Naturalis describes white blades in Amanita muscaria and light pores tubes in Gyroporus cyanescens. There are two different ways to organize the surface under the hat. An isolated feature does not allow identifying a mushroom or deciding whether it can be consumed. Not everyone has a foot: some hats grow directly from wood. The guide to Australian botanical gardens also shows shapes of cup and fine coating on wood. When you observe, you can start with three questions: what is the contour, where support grows and what surface can you see without moving?
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Branches and corals
Branched or gelatinous structures show shapes that escape the usual hat.
Corals that do not live in the sea →Shears in the trunks
The visible structure grows out of the trunk; the activity of the fungus continues in the wood.
Shelf growing in a trunk →No hat visible
Microfungals and underground forms broaden the idea of what is sought when observing.
A fungus without hat →
Source and context
DGADR / ICNF — Mushroom Collector's Guide, June 2013
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Naturalis Biodiversity Center — Amanita muscaria
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Naturalis Biodiversity Center — Gyroporus cyanescens
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Editorial summary; the date of consultation is not the date of the facts.