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Description:

cluster of brownish mushrooms with caps about 1 1/2 - 2 in across

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (7)

Awww that's unfortunate. But Alex brings up a great point; for mushrooms like these, loads of tools are needed: highly powered microscope, chemicals such as Melzer's reagent and others, spore print, and many other things. If identifying a mushroom in your hand will take some effort, imagine by pictures. But we can all help each other and do our best!
Because most state parks protect their species, all of them. There are a few that allow mushrooming in our state, but most do not.
but even if you could, pull the sporeprint, do you have a microscope or know how the spores should look like ( for the spores can you buy a special guide or ask an mycolog) (the microscope is something i will get too, but first {for me} a real camera.
Can't exactly spore print the ones we find in the state parks... wish I could
but maybe a mycena or not so likely a conocybe
with only one picture. it is always difficult to suggest a just spotted mushroom, even with more pics and the right details (stem; gills; cap; maybe somewhat under/back-ground or special features {milky fluid,slimy cap,blueish discoloration }) it is also still a suggestion. the smell,touch or taste and most important the spores are missing.!!

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