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Figure 12. Amanitopsis vaginata. <strong>Edible</strong> but not recommended. 36
WHITE SPORE PRINT name is not altogether fitting because the ring is often inconspicuous or even absent in all but very young specimens. Mellea, meaning honey-like, is descriptive of the color of the fungus, not the taste. The species is characterized by (i) white spores, (2) gills that taper downward on the stem, and (3)3 delicate, cottony ring connecting the cap and stem of young plants. Like other organisms that grow under many different conditions it varies a great deal, and even after one has known and gathered it for years he continually meets forms that differ just a little from the type (Figure 13 and Plate 2D). A. mellea is interesting not only because of its variability but because it has frequently been suspected of being a menace to orchard, forest, and shade trees, rotting the roots and thus killing the trees. Normally it lives on dead roots and other woody debris and spreads by means of black, string-like aggregations of mycelium (whence the name shoestring) that grow through the soil from one root to another. One of these strings may invade the root of a living tree by growing directly through the bark, and once inside it spreads out in the soft wood underneath, killing the tissues as it advances. At the same time it grows into and rots the wood of the root, reducing it to a white, stringy or spongy pulp. It also advances up into the trunk of the tree, causing a fairly common heart rot in both shade and forest trees. The decayed wood is usually luminescent, glowing in the dark with a pale yellow light — an eerie enough sight to come upon of a rainy night! The fruit bodies almost always come up in clumps, often in such numbers and so close together as literally to cover the earth. In a recently cutover woodland in central Minnesota the author counted five hundred fruit bodies in an area twelve feet square, amounting to at least a bushel in volume, and they were only slightly less numerous in other patches scattered over several acres. On our lawn in St. Paul hundreds of them have formed an almost solid carpet about three feet wide and thirty feet long, apparently nourished by the decayed root of an oak cut down many years ago. The most common variety is rather squat, with a pale brown 37
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