![]() ![]() And this spore print will be the color of those unseen spores.īut before you can make a spore print, you have to collect a mushroom. As the spores fall onto the paper, they slowly stack up underneath the gills they fall from, creating a print of the mushroom’s underneath in spores. This is done by placing a cap from a mushroom on a flat surface and letting the spores fall on their own. The most common way to collect spores is by creating what is known as a spore print. You can look as closely as you want, but without collecting the spores themselves, you will not be able to identify some mushrooms… And if you happen to be interested in eating them, that is pretty dang important if you wish to remain healthy. The spore prints I made for today are from some Meadow Mushrooms, which have brown gills and brown spores but also from Green Spored Parasol Mushrooms, which have white gills and green spores. With that in mind you may think, “Well if I look at the gills, that will tell me the spore color.” However, if you did think that, you could very well be wrong. ![]() The spores are produced along the gills (or pores, or teeth, or in mucous sheaths) but for today we will only worry about gills. The spores of a mushroom are its reproduction unit, think of a plant seed if you will. When identifying mushrooms, one of the key features is spore color. Today I would like to tell you about the mycologist’s art: spore prints. Identifying mushrooms can be a lot of fun, but it can also leave you with beautiful artwork. ![]()
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