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Found in conifer-dominant subalpine forest southeast of Anthony's Peak, Mendocino National Forest
Growing in Abies duff near snow under Abies magnifica and Abies concolor, looked as if there was a low intensity burn in the area
Pileus smooth, waxy, depressed, slightly sulcate, dark brown in center becoming lighter near margin, hygrophanous. Lamellae broadly attached to sub-decurrent, grey, sub-distant, waxy feeling. Stipe equal, fibrous, covered in fine white fibrils
Smell indistinct

Found in conifer-dominant subalpine forest southeast of Anthony's Peak, Mendocino National Forest
Growing in abundance near snow under Abies magnifica and Abies concolor
Growing sub-hypogeously in "shrumps". Pileus smooth, greyish/silver to white, covered in soil. Lamellae close, white when young becoming grayish in age broadly attached, waxy. Stipe thick, dense, fibrous, mostly equal, solid throughout
Smell indistinct
Taste mild
No KOH
Stipe base fluoresces bright green

Found in a cultivated garden in a clients yard in south Sebastopol
Growing on a well decomposed Platanus occidentalis stump
Hard, brown, woody surface with smooth white pored underneath. Immediate brown bruising on pored when scratched. Growing on a stump where there was a large flush of Trametes versicolor last year, maybe acting as a secondary/tertiary decomposer?
Taste bitter
Strong and intense polypore smell, not particularly distinct though
KOH brown

On rotten Betula papyrifera wood. Apothecia: up to ~3.5 mm. Asci: 77-87 x 7.3 µm, tips amyloid; with croziers; paraphyses filiform, septate, about as long as asci, 1.5-2.0 um diam. Subiculum hyphae: septate, thin-walled, smooth, hyaline, 1.7-2.5 µm diam. External hairs: reddish brown to yellowish, multiseptate, enlarged at tips, 40-60 x 3-5 µm diam. Spores: (11.9)13.8-18.1(24.6) x (2.6)(2.8-3.5(4.5) µm, fusiform, 1-3 septate,

Pulvinate grey squishy fruit bodies on fallen chamise wood, some tightly clustered or cespitose, some tessellated on surface of wood. Seemed fresh and non-lichenized but looked like lichen and could be?

Castle Rock State Park- Pseudotsuga menziesii, Arbutus menziesii, Notholithocarpus densiflorus dominant mixed hardwood/conifer forest
Growing on cut end of a well a decomposed large diameter Pseudotsuga menziesii log just off the Saratoga Gap Trail
Very tiny, relatively featureless, astipitate orange cups

Growing on same log as:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/210284423
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/210285208
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/210286596

Castle Rock State Park- Pseudotsuga menziesii, Arbutus menziesii, Notholithocarpus densiflorus dominant mixed hardwood/conifer forest
Growing on the underside of decorticated Arbutus menziesii off the Saratoga Gap Trail
White to light orange/brown resupinate pored crust. Pored elongate to almost resemble teeth
Like “scentless” laundry detergent... don't really know how else to explain it!
Taste sour/bitter
KOH orange/brownish
Whole sporocarp fluoresces yellow/green and KOH fluoresces bright blue

under surface textured/finely bumpy, stipe less than 1cm, firm gelatinous texture, growing on redwood duff and in moss next to a leaking pipe. thick and distinct stipe. no odor. hymeniform smooth and darker than flesh.
spores smooth and ellipsoid.

Creek trail, Sugarloaf State Park. Arbutus menziesii, Quercus, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Umbellularia californica, Heteromeles arbutifolia dominated mixed hardwood/conifer forest
Growing on wet hardwood, leaf litter and dead moss in partially buried pile of Quercus or Umbellularia californica
Multi-colored resupinate fungus studded with small lumps throughout. Growing margin bright yellow with visible mycelial structure. Exuding wine-red guttation droplets closer to growing edges. Very thin and fragile.
Smell indistinct
Wildly intense neon/royal blue fluorescence

Mixed hardwood/conifer forest in the Madeline Sone Wildlife Preserve
Growing on a fallen and well-decomposed Umbellularia californica branch Sequoia sempervirens and Umbellularia californica dominant section of the forest
White, resupinate fungus with small, blunt, serrate "teeth"
Smell indistinct
No KOH

Mixed hardwood/conifer forest in the Madeline Sone Wildlife Preserve
Growing on a piece of a well-decomposed twig right off the trail in a Sequoia sempervirens and Umbellularia californica dominant section of the forest
Neon yellow astipitate Ascomycetes
Fluoresces bright orange

Mixed hardwood/conifer forest in the Madeline Sone Wildlife Preserve
Growing on cut woody Toxicodendron diversilobum vine which was lying on the ground under a canopy of Quercus agrifolia
Tiny, black lumps growing on the exterior of vine, about 25% displaying a vertical, rectangular ascomata resembling compressed layers of carbon

@leptonia hello Christian, I took your online class during the pandemic. Wondering if you think this could be something other than a xylaria. I watched it over several months, and just dug it out today. Long stipe, wasn't obviously attached to wood, but perhaps... way down.
@dietel here it is again

Found a half dozen of these strange growths attached to redwood twigs. Several have a spiral pattern. Texture is brittle. Seems fungal?

I would have dismissed this as banana slug poop, except that it was hard and encrusted on redwood twigs, the spiral surface on "top" was smooth on the "bottom", and there were many in one area.

Bohemia Ecological Preserve- mixed hardwood/conifer forest with scattered grasslands on serpentine vein, adjacent to Duvoul Creek
Growing on dead branch of Pickeringia montana on the edge of a grassland
Orange/brown resupinate poroid fungus. Velvety to the touch
Smell and taste indistinct
KOH black

Off Spring Creek Trail in a damp Umbellularia californica and Sequoia sempervirens dominant forest, Annadel State Park
Growing on the cut ends of dead Umbellularia californica
Dusty, "fuzzy" mold-like fungus which sporulates heavily when disturbed. Growing in thin, crust-like layers. White to tan to blueish in coloration

Found in an open deciduous oak woodland/shrubland/grassland right off to the side of the trail near the entrance of Vietnam Memorial Trail, Annadel State Park
Growing on moist wood (bark and inner wood) near the base of Baccharis pilularis
Lumpy resupinate crust ranging in color from yellow to cream to grey to brown with spots of pink. Incredibly thin, only penetrating about 1mm into wood
Yellow/brown KOH
Smell indistinct
Fluoresces bright blue with KOH turning grey, inner wood of Baccharis pilularis fluorescing bright yellow

Growing on pieces of scrap wood from construction. Irregularly toothed hydnoid-resupinate with dingy tan colors at maturity and white towards the margins. Teeth often appear flattened and elongated, flesh soft.