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Russula sp.
Like the genus Lactarius, russulas have a distinctive flesh consistency, which is also reflected in the appearance of the gills and stipe, and normally makes them immediately recognizable. They have no trace of a veil (no ring, or veil remnants on the cap). The gills are brittle except in a few cases, and cannot be bent parallel with the cap without breaking. Hence the genus Russula sometimes known as 'brittle gills'. They have splitting gills and do not exude a milky substance at cut surfaces, contrary to the genus Lactarius. Presence of large spherical cells, 'sphaerocysts'in stipe is an important characteristic feature to distinguish the members of Russulaceae from other mushroom. In Russula stipe breaks like the flesh of an apple, whilst in most other families it only breaks into fibres. The spore powder varies from white to cream, or even orange. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rus...
Spotted in river Homem félinhos beach
Thanks again Orbea,iam a fungi lover and from what i se the furder we go more we know there is to learned :-) iam beganing this season with the spore prints,and iam remarking that some species only with microscopy photos of the spores is possible a positif id.
the problem i have ,is that i find so many species, that i dont haved time to ,make spores prints or send samples to the link you give me,in all i found,so any tip or elp from someone knoeledge like you is super welcome :-)
I understand that its best to not make Russula identifications without microscopy, specialized literature, and preferably expert advice. This especially goes for the many red ones. There is a Russula expert in my area who has a poster with local species which include ~6 red species alone...
So Orbea you think that is better ID only like russula species,rigth?
I began this year to make spore prints,,this one is from last season.
I never tried,until now ,any of the mushrooms i spotted :-)
It's to dangerous,maybee in the futur after a few years of research,for now it's enougth to me to spott them :-)
having lived in the country until the age of 20 never gave much attention to mushrooms ... but there are actually some magnificent, but also dangerous ...
Thanks very much for your kind words Brandon,in these last times i'am with to much work ,but after summer i'll return to my ususal posting mode :-)
WOW ;-) i told you that i would tried something,so we maked the St John all nigth dance party in the Porto city,thousends of people on the streets during the nigth,until 10h in the morning,dancing and singing and of course drinking a lot too :-) and the results are there :-)
Antonio,guess what ,we did have rain ! Be it drizzles but it was rain!!More power to you my friend!!
Jemma my friend i will make my best to trie that some of our rain goes there :-)
HA HA HA true, well we were lucky, it was raining the whole May but from then not even a drop :) I like it that way, no complains! try to think about me when you gonna invoke rain again and say: look cloud that little place somewhere on the Adriatic coast: let is burn in the sun at least till November ;D here is 28ºC in the sea :D pretty solid feeling of summer I'd say!
It look like i maked a super strong rain invocation ,so strong, that all europe is flooded :-) i hope to have these heather until sptember :-) warm (20\25ºc) normaly 4 days sun and 3 days raining, is good for all :-) they say the real summer is coming only in sptember due to a weather anomalie like the el niño in the pacific,this is alover the northen hemisphere,lets see what hapen during next months
antonio @ ha ha ha I guess will all your strong desire for new spotting you have invoked the rain outside the rainy season :D
jema@ I have come across one really nice quote few day ago, maybe you should forward it to your friend ;) "Life is just this way. Sometimes the crisis is the healing. And fear is often the vanguard to courage.’"
@Injica thanks :-) i'am surprised too,when rain show up(this year is more rainy than others) there is allways some fresh ones borning,almost in the same shadow places i visit,not many but luckly for me they continue to show up,this one is beautiful :-)
@Jemma life is allways a surprise,for the best and for the bad too.
Hoping your friend keep the hope in life,because there is allways something and someone to know and life continue is way,take care
here is the same 3 months :-) it's one of the good things of teaching and of studing :-)