Rounded, pointy yellow top,
Parasitizing a reddish brown worm,
Found in deadwood trailside,
White purplish UV on top,
Near alder/redwood
White, powdery tufts sticking out of wood,
Parasitizing insect beneath,
Found in redwood(?) trailside near creek,
Near maple/alder
On edge of pond, some pine duff around close to Lodge Pole and fir forest. Found by @julienpometta
On poop
On wet decayed sedges, maybe Carex sp., at the base of live plants in a wet seep near Salix and Quercus kelloggii.
entomopathogenic fungi found on fly on the stipe of a cortinarius.
Found at 9733’
Possibly Psilocybe Gandalfiana, but could also be Leratiomyces cucullatus?
Riparian valley with hardwood canopy cover. McGee Creek, around 7,600 ft. Inyo National Forest
Growing in Brachythecium rivulare on bank of McGee Creek, near McGee Creek Forest Service Campground
Pileus umbonate, pointed, brownish/gray with purplish tones, inrolled margin, small rosecomb present! Lamellae covered by a thick, white cortina. Stipe white at apex, becoming darker near base, extremely fibrous with a silvery sheen
Smell indistinct
Microscopy
Spores = ~ 17 x 10 um, no reaction with melzers reagent
Not much scent
Not even the smell of sourdough
growing around the roots of
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/54659502
However the next day I found ones ~5-8 m away that didn't seem associated with those roots
Growing on the trunks of tree ferns, photographed on black velvet.
raised in captivity to document growth stages and patterning variation
adult male
sparse saltgrass, among chenopods close to edge of playa, slight salt-encrusted soils
Under Pinus monophylla.
Caps 2 cm broad, tan/cream color, gills similar color, short, medium spacing. With persistent white cortina. Stipe white, base tapering.
KOH -
Tahoe National Forest in the 2022 Mosquito Fire burn scar. Pinus, Abies, Quercus and Calocedrus decurrens dominant mixed hardwood/conifer montane forest
Growing from compact burned soil on side of dirt road
Deformed, lobed, dense sporocarp. Exterior shaped of purplish grey, becoming more orange near margins. Hymenophore pored, white. Short, stubby stipe
Smell slightly sweet
Taste sharply bitter and acidic
Orange/brown KOH
Hymenophore brightly fluorescent
HAY-F-007804
trees closest that could be the species the wood its growing on is derived from
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/172465650
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/172465651
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/172465649
p7 4-1
On Geopora:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/208652805
Spores dark brown (speckled in transmitted light), smooth, broadly fusiform to citriform; walls 1.5 µm thick;
(23.5) 24.1 - 27.4 (28.8) × (13.1) 13.5 - 16.3 (17.4) µm
Q = (1.5) 1.6 - 1.9 (2) ; N = 31
Me = 25.9 × 14.8 µm ; Qe = 1.8.
Found by Connor Dooley,
Parasitized beetle larvae,
Tall, dark stroma sticking out of sand,
Growing trailside in Dunes
I think...
Smells like soil
Agave deserti
Spiky, brown top with white at base,
Seed shaped spores encased in thick gel inside,
On wood near redwood
Emerging from side dead conifer, possible Jeffrey pine.
Secotioid agaric with shape of squashed baseball. Cap slimy, orange-yellow with fibrillose reddish brown scales. Gills grayish brown, wrinkled, looking like meat. Stipe well-developed but squat; white with reddish brown scales. Thick partial veil, becoming separated in older specimens but cap margins still very close to stipe (not opening).
Odor woody. KOH+ pink.
Really unsure about this one - speculative ID. Particularly interesting how this had also taken over fern. Not slime mold, relatively firm. Rosette like form. Might go back to get this for sequencing. Primarily on alder (or birch?)
rooivlerkspreeu/red-winged starling/onychognathus morio on Klipspringer [Oreotragus oreotragus]
Found underneath a row of Italian cypress adjacent to a driveway.
On Castilleja
Salt Point State Park, Salt Point Loop Trail. Mixed confier/hardwood coastal forest; Sequoia sempervirens, Abies grandis, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Notholithocarpus densiflorus, Pinus muricata, Arbutus menziesii
Fruiting directly from well decomposed Pinus muricata
Bright orange/yellow resupinate crust with extended tubes ending in irregular shaped pores
Taste mild
Smell like blue cheese
Bright orange KOH
Growing from soil organic matter in a saturated area close to a culvert just downhill from road in the 2021 Caldor fire burn scar, Eldorado NF.
Undescribed sequestrate Psilocybe species, ample blue bruising along stipe
Difficult to tell if it was on alder wood or a piece of a leaf that had fallen into a crack in the alder log that it was emerging from. ~4-7mm in length
"Mycena acicula" is possibly the best name available now.
Large, stocky sporing bodies,
Long, tapered stipe,
Yellow UV on white exterior and cut interior,
Cleaner odor/taste,
Growing off trail in mossy soil near sitka spruce
asci clavate, 8-spored, with small, amyloid apical plug, inoperculate
(37) 39 – 44μm (47) x 2.5 – 4μm | paraphyses filiform, with contents, some appearing encrusted, not forking, ~ascus length, some longer, some shorter x 1-2μm | spores hyaline, irregularly cylindrical-fusiform, some slightly curved or appearing boletinoid, aseptate or rarely one-septate, aguttulate (5) 6 – 8μm (11.5) x 1.5 – 2μm | downy margin elements (?) composed of septate hyphae, filled with bluish, globular, refractive contents, some terminating in distinct fascicles, appearing dark brown when grouped (fascicles) but individually hyaline
Substrate: dead corn lily stems (Veratrum californicum)
Habitat: mixed conifer mountain forest
Ecoregion: Sierra Nevada Forests
Collector: D. Newman & B. Mandapati
Collection #: SFSN001
Collected for the 2016 SFSU Spring Fungi of the Sierra Nevada Field Course
On some kind of herbaceous plant stem in a seasonal pond. Fruits translucent-white, club-shaped, truncated to discoid at the apex.
Growing on wet, muddy soil. Intense cucumber odor.