The goal of this journal is to learn more about the mushrooms of the Pacific NW. To do this, I am going to choose one mushroom a day to learn at least a few things about. So here we go.
The first mushroom of the day (heretofore referred to as the M.O.T.D.) is the Straw Colored Fiber Head (Inocybe fastigiata). It might seem to be a fairly innocuous mushroom to begin with. It is a fairly widespread Inocybe, a member of the Cortinarious family, itself the largest family of brown spored gilled mushrooms. I chose this because while talking with Jessie about this project, she asked me which mushroom I was going to start with. She thought it would be funny if I chose this one. Not because of any particular beauty or feature associated with it, but because, like many Inocybes, it has a very specific odor. That odor being "spermatic". So there you go. I'm hoping that future entries will be slightly more illuminating.
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