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Observation and photos shared with permission of original observer Flynn Naudé.
Sandy soil under white pine and Douglas fir. mild taste TAC715.
Huge skulls of Flathead Catfish pinned by anglers to telephone pole.
Found in an Eucalyptus globulus dominant urban forest on the edge of a golf course in the Presidio, Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Growing on mixed substrates (woody material and dead grasses) under Eucalyptus globulus
Pileus bight red/orange, appearing slightly velutinous. Lamellae white, subdistant to distant, broadly to narrowly attached. Stipe elongate, white and opaque at apex, becoming tomentose and brown at base
Observed on incubated deer dung with Ascobolus. Spores are shown in Pic 4 and 5 with Ascobolus spores.
On dung of Ochotona princeps.
Collected June 18 2024, incubated since July 26
Collected by @leptonia
Juvenile sample. Eyes on the right side of the head unlike Southern Flounder
On beds. Once released went back to his territory with minimal disruption.
Microscopy by @rudydiaz:
FDS-CA-00366
Propolis
Asci cylindrical, bitunicate, with clavate base; (66.4) 66.42 - 70.7 × (9.6) 9.63 - 11 µm (mean 68.1 × 10.2 µm); side walls 1.3 - 2 µm thick, and 3 - 6.3 µm at apex.
Paraphyses branching, highly-septate, 2.5 - 3.3 µm thick.
Ascospores 1-septate (didmyospores), fusiform, bent;
(10.1) 10.4 - 12.1 (12.6) × (2.2) 2.3 - 3 (3.4) µm
Q = (3) 4 - 4.8 (5.2) ; N = 8
Me = 11.5 × 2.7 µm ; Qe = 4.3
11.44 2.58
11.63 2.22
11.82 2.93
10.41 3.44
12.63 2.62
11.94 2.90
10.06 2.27
12.06 2.98
On dung of Ochotona princeps.
Collected June 18 2024, incubated since July 26. Perithecia immersed, 0.3mm. Asci abruptly contracted into a short stipe. Ascospores 28-32 x 5-6 microns, germ slits nearly parallel with a kink in the middle
On hardwood. Several caps were seen. 4-5 pores per mm, with an irpicoid aspect. Pore length a bit less than 2mm. Pores look grey but up close they really look gelatinous and glassy. Strong fungal smell, a bit sweet. Fruitbody is spongy and flexible. Specimen examined was 2.5 cm wide. Shady woods. C. populus or C. caesiosimulans.
San Vicente Redwoods- Mixed hardwood/conifer forest that burned in the 2020 CZU fire
Growing on dead Quercus agrifolia leaves in an area with low severity burn, Quercus agrifolia, Arbutus menziesii and Sequoia sempervirens dominant
Sporocarops about the size of mustard seed, covered in white strongly filaments. Some sporocarps have pseudo-lamellae which express themselves as distant, smooth ridges (see in photo 1-3)
“Zayantensis” collected. Under Manzanita, oak and pine within 50 ft
In duff and woody debris under Pseudotsuga menziesii and Juniperus near melting snow. Deeply rooting stipe covered in white rhizomorphs. ITS 2 bp or more different than B. myosura sequences on GenBank. Perhaps this is just a form of B. myosura.
Growing in Arctostaphylos leaf litter in savannah with Pinus sabiniana and Quercus douglasii. Peridium membranous, off-white, attached to substrate by a webby, darker tan sheath of mycelium. Columella a small, fragile frenulum of whitish tissue attached radially to the peridioles. Peridioles small, teardrop or sunflower seed shaped, with a drop of extremely sticky gel at the pointed end that allows it to adhere to things, presumably an animal dispersal vector, in this case myself.
HAY-F-002780
Micscroscopy:
spores = round, smooth, and most with 2 oil droplets per spore
asci = not amyloid tipped in melzers,
Red cap,
White gills/stipe,
White UV on gills,
Near willow,
No odor,
Acrid taste,
Growing off trail in mossy sand
ABCO, PICO. K black
Rounded, pointy yellow top,
Parasitizing a reddish brown worm,
Found in deadwood trailside,
White purplish UV on top,
Near alder/redwood
HAY-F-002815
Growing along roadcut in redwood forest. Pileus brown, minutely granular-scaly. Lamellae thick, widely spaced; yellow to white, widely attached to decurrent. Stipe bright yellow, brittle, dry, ornamented with white granular chevrons at the apex and bright white farina at base.
Growing inside downed wood,
Near white fir,
No UV,
Indistinct odor
On overwintered White Oak -Quercus alba leaf/leaves tiny white cup fungi. Apothecia substipitate, about 0.15-0.32mm in diameter.
Asci 8-spored, H-, IKI+b.
Ascospores subfusiform, eguttulate, hyaline, measured
*5.6 - 6.2 (7.4) × (1.3) 1.4 - 1.6 (1.8) µm
Q = (3.5) 3.54 - 4.4 (4.5) ; N = 10
Me = 6 × 1.5 µm ; Qe = 4
Paraphyses lanceolate, without VBs.
Marginal hairs thick-walled, with crystals at the top, 1(-2) septate.
FDA-CA-02366
Found with;
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/221896161
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/221897050
FDS-CA-02404
Found with;
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/222926359
White, powdery tufts sticking out of wood,
Parasitizing insect beneath,
Found in redwood(?) trailside near creek,
Near maple/alder
Possibly different sp. than typical viride. Check http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/5045761 for a local example. Collected and vouchered
Shrubland/mixed hardwood conifer forest. Convict lake, 7,850 ft. Inyo National Forest
Growing underneath a wet plank of well decomposed wood in a zone saturated from snow melt creeks with Betula occidentalis, Populus tremuloides and Populus trichocarpa on the Southwest side of lake
Pileus white to grey, smooth with a "frosty" appearance, inrolled margin. Lamellae white, crowded to close, broadly attached. Stipe short, equal, finely flocculate with white mycelial projections at the base
Smell farinaceous
Taste mind
KOH indistinct
Whole sporocarp fluoresces bright blue
-Found on willow tree in an Aspen Grove
-very close to another cluster of cerioporus squamosus that was rotting (had a mold growing on it)
-Toothy resupinate growing on rock
-found in a hole in the soil underneath a pinus contorta
On fallen, rotting Quercus trunk, under loose bark. Colour of the colony from azure, deep blue, to yellow green. Monoblastic, rhexolytic, blueish tinged conidia.
Stalpers, J.A. 2000. The genus Ptychogaster. Karstenia. 40:167-180
Arx, J.A. von 1973: Further observations on Sporotrichum and some similar fungi. - Persoonia 7: 127-130.
Maybe T.californicum?
White to tan, medium-sized with furrowed peridium,
Solid gleba, marbled with white veins,
White UV on cracked exterior and cut interior,
Odor is like a mixture of rubber and cleaner, an odor reminiscent of a garage; I smelled it again hours later and it was cheesy,
Tastes like cleaner,
Indistinct KOH,
Growing trailside near Doug fir/red alder/coast redwood,
NE, Elevation 252 ft.
Thick walled, globose spores within ascus
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 in rich exposed soil in a Darlingtonia californica meadow. Pileus blue-grey, frosty textured, with a distinct umbo, turning lighter and more brown in age. Lamellae off-white, narrowly attached. Stipe whitish, fibrous-twisted, growing crowded.
Collected at PNW Key Council spring foray, 2017
Single to gregarious in soil under shrubs – rose, dogwood etc. near Quercus, Pseudotsuga, + unidentified smaller hardwood
Cap – < 3.7 cm diam., sub-acute conical; hygrophanous; reddish-ochre at first, drying to ochraceous-buff; smooth, lubricous,
Gills – deeply notched but attached; close; pale orange-ochre, sub-serrate edges;
Stipe – < 10.0 cm tall x 0.8 cm wide; dry; striate to grooved; no annulus; deeply rooting.
Micro – spores ~ 5-7 × 3-3.5, oblong, white, smooth, inamyloid
Rickenella. Hooked moss, drosera, meesia, arrhenia libata, Salix, phyllodoce, big bean. 50-100 mushrooms
Cup 6 - 10 mm across. Stalk 1.5 - 4 cm long x 1 - 2 mm wide.
Mill creek trail, under redwoods, quickly bruised bright blue then green. Working on a spore print. Does indeed have a very distinctive odor, could be described as “mouse-like”.
I’m assuming the items are unrelated, but proximity is interesting
Found growing terrestrially?(possibly from buried dead Aspen) next to the Truckee River near the West shore of Lake Tahoe in Tahoe City, CA. Appear to be Cerioporus squamosus or similar which are not supposed to occur this far west. They do not appear to be one of the Polyporus species which do occur here.
This was the first time we saw this species. We found about 30 plants in this location.
Four day follow-up of these plants is posted here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/221172761
John Marquis wrote me about where to find this species back in 2010, and he got a photograph of these same plants in full bloom on 20 August 2010.
@leptonia independently found these exact plants 14 years later, growing at the bottom of the same rock! See:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/220832091
In all our surveys at SnJt, we've only found this species in three spots, all in the same general area.
Scaly-fibrous zonate slightly hygrophanous (?) cap, squared/flat stipe, single fruitbody could not find others in the vicinity