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Chroogomphus / k r oʊ. ə ˈ ɡ ɒ m f ə s / is a genus of mushrooms commonly known as pine-spikes or spike-caps based on their shape and because they are often found growing in association with pine trees. The genus is distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere including North America and Eurasia.
Boletus subvelutipes, commonly known as the red-mouth bolete, is a bolete fungus in the family Boletaceae. It is found in Asia and North America, where it fruits on the ground in a mycorrhizal association with both deciduous and coniferous trees. Its fruit bodies (mushrooms) have a brown to reddish-brown cap, bright yellow cap flesh, and a stem ...
Gomphidius glutinosus, commonly known as the slimy spike-cap, hideous gomphidius, or glutinous gomphidius [1] is a gilled mushroom found in Europe & North America. Although it has gills, it is a member of the order Boletales, along with the boletes. The fruiting bodies sprout in pine, fir and spruce woodland in Europe in autumn.
The species was first described scientifically by American mycologist Howard James Banker in 1913. [2] Italian Pier Andrea Saccardo placed the species in the genus Hydnum in 1925, [3] while Walter Henry Snell and Esther Amelia Dick placed it in Calodon in 1956; [4] Hydnum peckii (Banker) Sacc. and Calodon peckii Snell & E.A. Dick are synonyms of Hydnellum peckii.
Hydnum umbilicatum is smaller, with caps measuring 3–5 cm (1–2 in) in diameter, and thinner stipes that are 0.5–1 cm (1 ⁄ 4 – 1 ⁄ 2 in) wide. [37] Its caps are umbilicate (with a navel-like cavity), sometimes with a hole in the center of the cap, [ 30 ] unlike the flattened or slightly depressed caps of H. repandum . [ 24 ]
Atheris hispida is a viper species endemic to Central Africa.Like all other vipers, it is venomous.It is known for its extremely keeled dorsal scales ("spikes") that give it a bristly appearance. [3]
The plants have tall spikes of purple flowers resembling bottle brushes or feathers that grow 1–5 ft (0.30–1.52 m) tall. The species grows in hardiness zones 3 - 8, [ 4 ] stretching from the Midwest to the East Coast, eastern and western Canada.
The red-cap oranda has a silverish white body with a prominent red headgrowth on the forehead. [2] Chinese breeders have developed telescope eyed orandas, a cross-breeding of the telescope eye and oranda goldfish. [3] The hana fusa or pompom oranda is a pompom with a dorsal fin and headgrowth like an oranda. It is a cross between the oranda and ...