From: riburr@shentel.net   
      
   Steve Peek wrote:   
      
   > Steve   
   > "riburr" wrote in message   
   >> Don't know what this is, but you can see gills in the specimen at top   
   >> left.  Gills are distant, broad and attached, at least in the photo.   
   >> didn't take a spore print.  Purple color around edge of cap is   
   >> interesting:   
   >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/63108152@N00/5190697917/sizes/m/   
   >>   
   > Is the unknown one perhaps Armillaria tabescens? I saw a couple of specimens   
   > this week.   
   >   
   I don't think so.  These were growing directly from an elevated dead   
   (rotting) log.  I've only found A. tabescens growing from the ground   
   very near a tree or stump.   
      
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