![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3150/jpeg/12t.jpg) Spores of polypore mushrooms Picipes virgatus (Polyporus virgatus, P. amygdalinus) (spore size 8-9.2x3.4-3.8 micron) collected from an oak log in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 9, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3193/jpeg/24t.jpg) Spores of small pleurotoid mushrooms Moniliophthora conchata (Crinipellis conchata)(?) (spore print white, spore size 8.2 - 8.8 x 4.6 - 5 micron) collected in Sam Houston National Forest near Montgomery. Texas, July 17, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3265/jpeg/08t.jpg) Spores (spore print pink) of deer shield mushrooms (Pluteus cervinus) from a pile of wood chips, collected in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 1, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3625/jpeg/12t.jpg) Mushrooms Boletus durhamensis (taste is not bitter, spore print is light brown, spore size is 9.1 - 10.5 x 3.5 - 4 micron) near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, September 26, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3225/jpeg/21t.jpg) Spores of polypore mushroom Abortiporus biennis(?) (or may be A. albida from 8/28/2022 ??) from a fallen oak branch under a microscope with x40 objective (spore print whitish, may be light brown) collected in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 1, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3232/jpeg/15t.jpg) Spores of mushrooms Cotylidia diaphana (size 4.4 x 3.4 micron) collected behind an iron bench on rusty gravel soil in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 6, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3153/jpeg/29t.jpg) Spores of milkcap mushroom Lactarius yazoensis (spore print light brown), collected in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 15, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3160/jpeg/19t.jpg) Spores of a milkcap mushroom Lactifluus rugatus (spore print light brown) collected in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 27, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3535/jpeg/34t.jpg) Spores of small orange Leucoagaricus(?) mushrooms from mossy soil (spore print turns brown in lugol) collected in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 13, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3240/jpeg/16t.jpg) Spores of Agaricus mushrooms under sumpweed on sewage line right-of-way, in KOH (spore print dark brown) collected in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 12, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3479/jpeg/15t.jpg) Spores (spore print light brown) of a small Pluteus mushroom collected a day before in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 28, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3153/jpeg/33t.jpg) Spores of mushrooms Leccinum rugosiceps (spore print dark brown) collected in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 15, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3153/jpeg/34t.jpg) Spores of mushrooms Xanthoconium affine (spore print rusty brown) collected in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 15, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3143/jpeg/33t.jpg) Spores of oysterling mushrooms Crepidotus mollis (spore print brown) collected in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 2, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3233/jpeg/29t.jpg) Spores of light brown Amanita mushrooms with a radial pattern (spore print olive-brown) collected on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, September 7, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3408/jpeg/23t.jpg) Spores (in Melzer) of some Multifurca or may be Lactarius mushrooms under oaks (spore print light brown) collected in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, May 8, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3408/jpeg/22t.jpg) Spores (in lugol) of some Multifurca or may be Lactarius mushrooms under oaks (spore print light brown) collected in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, May 8, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3233/jpeg/30t.jpg) Spores of a brown, not bitter Tylopilus mushroom (spore print light brown-violet) collected on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, September 7, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3167/jpeg/23t.jpg) Spores of bolete a mushroom Boletus luridellus (spore print olive-brown) collected in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, June 3, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3165/jpeg/12t.jpg) Spores of a polypore mushroom Perenniporia tephropora (Truncospora tephropora) from a fallen oak, collected at Lake Somerville a day before. Spore size is 5.6 x 4.4 micron. Texas, June 1, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3149/jpeg/20t.jpg) Spores of milkcap mushrooms Lactarius subplinthogalus from a slope of a creek (spore print light brown) under a microscope, collected in Sam Houston National Forest near Richards. Texas, May 8, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3243/jpeg/27t.jpg) Spores of small Entoloma mushrooms (spore print light brown) collected on Caney Creek Trail (Little Lake Creek Loop Trail) in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, September 14, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3167/jpeg/20t.jpg) Spores of split fibrecap mushroom (Pseudosperma rimosum) at low magnification (spore print brown), collected in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, June 3, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3232/jpeg/13t.jpg) Spores of magpie inkcap mushrooms (Coprinopsis picacea) in KOH, collected from wood chips in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 6, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3408/jpeg/24t.jpg) Spores of blackening Russula mushroom (spore print yellowish light brown), collected in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, May 8, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3214/jpeg/29t.jpg) Spores of mushrooms Pseudosperma rimosum (spore print light brown) from muddy area collected near Caney Creek in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, August 21, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3232/jpeg/12t.jpg) Spores of magpie inkcap mushrooms (Coprinopsis picacea) at low magnification in KOH, collected from wood chips in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 6, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3522/jpeg/27t.jpg) Spores (in KOH, spore print brown) of oysterling mushrooms Crepidotus calolepis collected a day before in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, April 28, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3144/jpeg/17t.jpg) Spores of Leucoagaricus barssii(?) mushroom (spore print is white, may be slightly yellow) collected on Kiwanis Nature Trail. College Station, Texas, May 3, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3398/jpeg/29t.jpg) Spores of flat oysterling mushrooms (Crepidotus applanatus), in KOH (spore print brown), collected in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, April 29, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3514/jpeg/06t.jpg) Spores of Leucoagaricus barssii(?) mushroom (spore print white, turns brown-violet in lugol) collected on Kiwanis Nature Trail. College Station, Texas, April 18, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3214/jpeg/28t.jpg) Spores of mushrooms Pseudosperma rimosum (spore print light brown) from muddy area under a microscope at low magnification, collected near Caney Creek in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, August 21, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3437/jpeg/15t.jpg) Scaly shield mushrooms (Pluteus petasatus) on buried wood near tree roots (spore print light brown) on Yaupon Loop Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, December 1, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3421/jpeg/20t.jpg) Spores of some Leucoagaricus mushrooms from a trail with sparse grass (spore print almost white, turns dark purple in lugol) collected in Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 6, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3225/jpeg/19t.jpg) Spores of egghead mottlegill mushrooms (Panaeolus semiovatus) from horse dung (spore print completely black) under a microscope with x40 objective in KOH solution, collected in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 1, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3522/jpeg/28t.jpg) Spores (in KOH, spore print orange) of small rustgill mushrooms (Gymnopilus) with brown caps collected a day before in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, April 28, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3533/jpeg/23t.jpg) Spores (spore print light brown) of Mallocybe mushrooms collected on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, May 11, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3226/jpeg/31t.jpg) Spores of orange and brown brittlestem mushrooms (Psathyrella) (spore print brown) collected in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, September 3, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3149/jpeg/17t.jpg) Spores of a large Tylopilus mushroom (spore print thin, light brown) collected at Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest near Richards. Texas, May 8, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3426/jpeg/19t.jpg) Spores (in KOH) of rustgill mushrooms Gymnopilus fulvosquamulosus from a log in a dried oxbow (spore print rusty brown), collected in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 15, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3219/jpeg/24t.jpg) Spores of saffron oysterling mushrooms (Crepidotus crocophyllus) (spore print light brown) collected on Winters Bayou Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Cleveland, Texas, August 27, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3416/jpeg/30t.jpg) Spores (spore size 8.5-10.1x4.3-5.4) of small omphalinoid mushrooms Contumyces vesuvianus(?), collected in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 19, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3535/jpeg/35t.jpg) Spores og tiny grey mushrooms Lepiota roseolivida(?) found under juniper (spore print turns brown in lugol) collected in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 13, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3220/jpeg/37t.jpg) Spores of a bolete mushroom Xanthoconium purpureum (spore print light brown) collected in Sam Houston National Forest near Montgomery. Texas, August 28, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3528/jpeg/14t.jpg) Spores of a small reddish-brown gilled mushroom from moss of Closed Trail (spore print white, turns brown in lugol), collected in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 6, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3402/jpeg/28t.jpg) Spores (in KOH) of mushrooms Psilocybe coronilla (spore print dark brown) collected in Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 3, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3426/jpeg/17t.jpg) Spores (in KOH, spore print brown) of chestnut brittlestem mushrooms Homophron spadiceum (Psathyrella spadicea) from the base of a hackberry tree, collected in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 15, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3190/jpeg/24t.jpg) Spores of deer shield mushrooms (Pluteus cervinus) (spore print light brown) in KOH solution, collected on Caney Creek Trail (Little Lake Creek Loop Trail) in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, July 13, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3235/jpeg/27t.jpg) Spores of Bristled Parachute mushrooms (Marasmius cohaerens) (spore print white) collected in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, September 9, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3641/jpeg/24t.jpg) Spores (spore print white) of brown Gymnopus(?) mushrooms from a lawn, collected in Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 11, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3152/jpeg/15t.jpg) Spores of a small red cap bolete mushroom under a microscope (spore print is almost black), collected in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 13, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3154/jpeg/20t.jpg) Spores of some Amanita(?) mushroom (spore print white) under a microscope at low magnification, collected in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 17, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3190/jpeg/25t.jpg) Spores of deer shield mushrooms (Pluteus cervinus) (spore print light brown) in iodine solution, collected on Caney Creek Trail (Little Lake Creek Loop Trail) in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, July 13, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3224/jpeg/05t.jpg) Some brown Parasola mushrooms on wood chips in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 1, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3232/jpeg/07t.jpg) Mushrooms Leucoagaricus americanus on sawdust piles near Post Oak Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 6, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3540/jpeg/30t.jpg) Spores (in lugol, spore print light brown)of larger Mallocybe mushrooms collected in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3238/jpeg/38t.jpg) Spores of small thin mikcap mushrooms Lactarius neotabidus(?) (spore print light-brown) from Sand Branch Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest near Montgomery. Texas, September 10, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3244/jpeg/20t.jpg) Spores of bolete mushrooms Austroboletus subflavidus (in KOH, spore print dark is rusty brown) collected in Pole Creek area of Sam Houston National Forest near Montgomery. Texas, September 16, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3224/jpeg/06t.jpg) Brown caps of some Parasola mushrooms on wood chips in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 1, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3528/jpeg/10t.jpg) Spores of yellowfoot dapplerling mushroom (Lepiota magnispora) (spore print white, turns brown in lugol), collected in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 6, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3232/jpeg/05t.jpg) Mature mushrooms Leucoagaricus americanus on sawdust piles near Post Oak Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 6, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3347/jpeg/10t.jpg) Spores (in Melzer) of oysterling mushrooms Clitopilus hobsonii (spore print light brown) collected a day before in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, February 20, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3231/jpeg/13t.jpg) Spores of small brown funnel mushrooms Crepidotus subfulviceps(?) in grass (spore print brown), collected in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, September 5, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3233/jpeg/27t.jpg) Spores of mushrooms Psathyrella pennata(?) (in KOH, spore print dark brown) collected on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, September 7, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3232/jpeg/06t.jpg) Cluster of mature mushrooms Leucoagaricus americanus on sawdust piles near Post Oak Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 6, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3232/jpeg/04t.jpg) Reddening Lepiota mushrooms (Leucoagaricus americanus) on sawdust piles near Post Oak Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 6, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3144/jpeg/16t.jpg) Spores of Agaricus mushroom (spore print thin, brown) collected in David E. Schob Nature Preserve. College Station, Texas, May 3, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3404/jpeg/17t.jpg) Spores of mushrooms Panus tephroleucus (spore print white), collected a day before in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 5, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2275/jpeg/19t.jpg) Reddening Lepiota mushrooms (Leucoagaricus americanus) on rotten wood in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 30, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3433/jpeg/13t.jpg) Spores (in lugol, spore print brown, stacked image) of a poisonpie mushroom (Hebeloma crustuliniforme) from a dried pool, collected 2 days before in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 24, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3435/jpeg/06t.jpg) Spores of oyster rollrim mushrooms (Tapinella panuoides) (spore print light brown, dirty) collected a day before in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, November 26, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3160/jpeg/10t.jpg) Spores of small Psathyrella mushrooms (spore print brown) collected in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, May 26, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3235/jpeg/26t.jpg) Spores of mushrooms Clitocella mundula (Rhodocybe mundula) from juniper litter (spore print white. smell unpleasant), collected in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, September 9, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3248/jpeg/26t.jpg) Spores of a large brown mushroom Amanita daucipes (spore print white), collected in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, September 21, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3530/jpeg/31t.jpg) Spores of mushrooms Lepiota clypeolaria (spore print white, turns pink in lugol) collected in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 8, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3398/jpeg/32t.jpg) Spores of mushrooms Limacella illinita (Zhuliangomyces illinitus), spore print white, collected in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, April 29, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3437/jpeg/19t.jpg) Spores of bonnet mushrooms (Mycena) from a side of a path (spore print white), collected in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, December 1, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3158/jpeg/17t.jpg) Spore print of sunray sawgill mushrooms (Heliocybe sulcata) collected in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 23, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3515/jpeg/18t.jpg) Spores of mushrooms Lentinellus castoreus (spore print white, turns dark in lugol), collected in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, April 19, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3232/jpeg/08t.jpg) Darkened cap of a mushroom Leucoagaricus americanus on a sawdust pile near Post Oak Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 6, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3229/jpeg/14t.jpg) Spores of Agaricus mushroom with pink gills from floodplain, in KOH (spore print dark brown), collected in Sam Houston National Forest near Montgomery. Texas, September 4, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2775/jpeg/09t.jpg) Reddening Lepiota mushrooms (Leucoagaricus americanus) on rotting wood in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, September 16, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3530/jpeg/37t.jpg) Spores (in KOH, spore print rusty, stem hollow(?)) of rustgill mushrooms (Gymnopilus) from Yaupon Loop Trail, collected in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 8, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3525/jpeg/23t.jpg) Pinkgill mushrooms Entoloma exile(?) on Closed Trail, under dense bushes, mostly Yaupon, growing with grass, stem hollow and soft, spore print light brown, in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 4, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3436/jpeg/24t.jpg) Spores (in KOH) at low magnification (x40 objective) of petticoat mottlegill mushrooms (Panaeolus papilionaceus) from dung (spore print black), collected in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 27, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3529/jpeg/20t.jpg) Spores (in KOH, spore print bright rusty orange) of rustgill mushrooms Gymnopilus liquiritiae(?) from rotting oak wood, collected on Kiwanis Nature Trail. College Station, Texas, May 7, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3404/jpeg/16t.jpg) Spores of blewit mushroom (Lepista nuda) (spore print grey), collected a day before in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 5, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3171/jpeg/15t.jpg) Spores of small orange cap bolete mushrooms Boletus subfraternus (spore print olive-brown) collected in Sam Houston National Forest near Montgomery. Texas, June 6, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3155/jpeg/35t.jpg) Spores of of bracket mushrooms Cerrena hydnoides (Hexagonia hydnoides) (spore print extremely thin) collected a day before in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, May 20, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3225/jpeg/09t.jpg) Spores of a resupinate polypore mushroom Skeletocutis odora (spore size 4.4 - 4.8 x 1.3 - 1.47) from a big wet fallen pine collected in Sam Houston National forest a day before. Texas, September 1, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3407/jpeg/16t.jpg) Blackening brittlegill mushrooms (Russula) (spore print yellowish light brown) in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, May 8, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3421/jpeg/18t.jpg) Spores (in lugol) of Lepiota mushroom with a brown cap (spore print white, turns dark purple in lugol), collected in Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 6, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3244/jpeg/19t.jpg) Spores of bolete mushrooms Boletellus ananas (in KOH, spore print is black) collected in Pole Creek area of Sam Houston National Forest near Montgomery. Texas, September 16, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3327/jpeg/09t.jpg) Spores (spore print white, dense) of odontoid corticioid fungus from a hardwood log, collected a day before in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 14, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3483/jpeg/17t.jpg) Chestnut brittlestem mushrooms (Homophron spadiceum) at the base of large living elm on a lawn (spore print light brown) in Wolf Pen Creek Park. College Station, March 8, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3407/jpeg/30t.jpg) Rosy caps of some Multifurca or may be Lactarius mushrooms under oaks (spore print light brown) in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, May 8, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3149/jpeg/15t.jpg) Spores of a white Amanita like mushroom without KOH or iodine solution (spore print brown) collected a day before near Pole Creek in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, May 8, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3436/jpeg/27t.jpg) Spores (with x40 objective) of of a small inkcap mushroom (Coprinopsis) from dung (spore print black), collected in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 27, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3163/jpeg/10t.jpg) Spores of star fibrecap mushrooms (Inocybe asterospora)(?) (spore print brown) collected on Caney Creek Trail (Little Lake Creek Loop Trail) in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, May 29, 2022
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