On old Porodaedalea pini fruits on Pseudotsuga menziesii snag
Growing from grassy wet meadow. Pileus tacky, golden-brown, striate, secotioid with a small amount of velar tissue attaching it to stipe. Stipe yellow, slightly scurfy. This doesn't seem to have the character of a Psilocybe, I feel like it has Bolbitius energy @warren_cardimona
Hidden in rotting Madrone log
Fuzzy white ascos growing on evergreen Huckleberry leaves trailside
Maybe E. coelestinum or close? Leptonia. In dense litter of Adenostoma sparsifolium. Ceanothus present nearby also but wasn't noticed in duff composition.
Yellow with a green tinge, found among redwoods and by a creek
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”.
First two photos are at mature stage. The remaining photos go backwards to immature stages.
Brown immature plasmodium and forming fruiting bodies is unusual; usual this species is white or yellow when immature.
Thanks to @malacothrix for finding these.
Pigmented smooth ellipsoid spores. No germ pore.
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.
Pale, applanate cap,
Creamy gills,
Slender stipe with white fuzz at base,
Indistinct taste,
Cardboard odor,
Growing next to parking lot,
Near redwood
Growing under Pinus ponderosa, Pseudotsuga menziesii and Pinus lambertiana. Head rich red-brown, wrinkled, folded and infurled. Stipe pinkish tan, slightly wrinkled.
Brown, brain shaped top,
Light brown stipe,
White UV on stipe,
Cleaner odor,
No taste,
Growing in soil on end of upturned redwood trailside
Dark brown mushrooms growing in sand near trail where it's flooded from recent rains,
No odor/UV,
Near dune grass
Honey, brown convex to waxy, striate cap,
White stipe,
Cortina present,
No odor,
Cleaner taste,
Indistinct KOH,
Growing in deadwood and in grass next to trail,
Mild white UV on gill margin,
Blue staining,
Dark spored,
Near alder
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 -
Found by Phil Dekat,
Purple fruitbodies growing by alder,
Black KOH
Indistinct odor,
Mild UV on gills,
Lovely lavender gills,
Indistinct taste
Small hypogeous gasteroid basidiomata, exterior light peach color, interior light yellow, composed of convoluted hymenium. Spores ellipsoid, rugulose, with small hilar appendage, 14–16 x 10.4–11 μm; walls 1.5–2 μm thick; starting light yellow, becoming brown. Basidia 34 x 9.4 μm; mostly 2-spored.
Partially buried in soil, on shaded slope dominated by manzanita, also with Eriodictyon, Prunus, and Ribes, with Quercus cornelius-mulleri about 20 ft away.
With Arctostaphylos.
Anza Borrego
Orange fungi,
Depressed cap center,
Scaly stipe,
No taste/odor,
White UV on gills,
Growing next to trail,
Near OG redwood/tan oak/doug fir
Rabbit dung. @werdnus have you ever seen something like this? F000208
Light peach cap with white stipe,
Dentate,
White UV all over,
No odor/taste,
Growing next to trail,
Near OG redwood/tan oak/doug fir
Light brown umbonate fungi,
Lighter cap margin with darkened center,
Lighter stipe with pruinose apex,
Yellowish gills,
White basal tomentum,
Partial veil on young specimens,
Older specimen cap are hygrophanous,
Growing trailside next to blackberry in sandy soil,
Near sitka spruce/Doug fir/coast redwood/alder,
Bright yellow UV on gills/cap margin/stipe,
No odor,
Red KOH on stipe; more orangey yellow on cap/gills,
Mild bitter taste
Brown, umbonate cap with flattened fibrils,
Lighter in center darkens outwards,White tomentum at base,
Growing next to trail,
Near alder,
Indistinct odor,
No UV/taste,
Growing on very wet, decayed wood (tanoak I think) along Zayante Creek
finally found some, was raining super hard and my pictures aren't very good. If I had recognized how small they were I wouldn't have misidentified so many other species
Growing from mixed leaf litter and woody debris under Alnus rhombifolia, Quercus kelloggii, and Calocedrus decurrens.
Odor egg-like
UV+ blue
LAMS24-191
Growing on bark of large piece of rotting wood on the ground in a shady forest near a creek, about 1 ft from observation 199986381.
On Alnus, sweet anise smell, UV light blue on gills
Coprinellus 'PNW 04' growing completely submerged in flowing water on various small pieces of wood. I have no reason to think the water level here has recently risen, in a spring and summer long stream of snowmelt directly below a culvert in a considerable current, we haven't had any significant hot streak that would have raised the flow.
Overmature and mature clusters collected. Bases of the stipe seemed to have a "holdfast" adaptation at the base similar Vibrissea, see pictures. (I know they are in a different order, more of a visual metaphor)
Burned Quercus/Pinus dominant woodland (now shrubland post-burn), just west of Knoxville road near Lake Berryessa
Growing in soil and directly off fine roots in a hole leftover from a burned out root system
Brown pileus with a wavy margin. Lamellae white to cream colored, anastomosing, subdistant to distant, broadly attached to subdecurrent. Stipe short, fibrous, off-center
Smell indistinct
pointy, rooting stipe; growing with Quercus agrifolia
Growing from mosses on rocks in live oak and Umbellularia forest in hillside ravine. Pileus dark blue with nearly black scurfy scales. Lamellae light bluish white, sometimes forking, narrowly attached, darkening and becoming covered in pink spores in age, UV+ bright bluish white. Stipe smoothly fibrillose, lacking cottony white base.
Growing from duff and organic matter under Ribes nevadense understory- Calocedrus decurrens, Abies and Alnus rhombifolia nearby
Near East Fork Barton Creek, San Bernardino NF
Subdecurrent gills with pale pink spore print (seen in third photo)
Farinaceous/cucumbery smell
Very bitter/chemically taste
Slightly UV reactive (hard to get photo)
Under leaf and branch litter under Quercus kelloggii, surrounded by Arbutus menziesii, Quercus agrifolia, Q. lobata or a hybrid thereof, and Pinus ponderosa, with an understory that has been badly invaded by Cytisus scoparius following a fire. Pileus dark gray, broadly convex with shallow umbo, with a single small patch of veil tissue stuck to the cap. Lamellae grayish-tan off white, free, very dark for an Amanita. Stipe ornamented with grey chevron patterning, whitish underneath. Volva conspicuously present at base, constricted midway, flaring at the mouth and tapering to a point at the base, very grey especially on the inside. No noticeable scent, UV-, KOH not sampled as only 1 specimen was present.
Mixed coast live oak woodland and chaparral. Under Quercus agrifolia.
Cap margin uplifted. Stipe scaly, without distinct annulus; stuffed and chambered. Volva bulbous, fleshy, emarginate.
Mature coast live oak woodland. In duff of Quercus agrifolia. Stipe slender with pink tones, mostly equal, abruptly bulbous.
Odor briny/wet dog.
Old ones smell like fish cheese gnarly, PISI, TSHE
Larger fruit body growing from soil, smaller one growing from Salix catkin. Found under Salix sp. by stream, Warner Mountains, Modoc NF
Funnel shaped and a pinkish spore deposit. Silvery tomentose concentric rings on pileus. Decurrent lamellae
Smell slightly sweet to farinaceous, like sweet bread
Very fluorescent! Green/yellow rxn on hymenophore as seen in last photo
Growing from soil under young Populus tremuloides grove with baby fir nearby. Warner Mountains, Modoc NF
Smell and taste farinaceous
No KOH
Strong yellow fluorescence
Rust on Sidalcea oregana leaves
Little blotches growing in a ring like pattern on back of leaves
Growing from Abies duff in mixed Abies/Pinus forest. Warner Mountains, Modoc NF.
Smell farinaceous, taste mild
Thick, white rhizomorph a extending from base, holding on tenaciously to substrate
Growing from mulch under Populus trichocarpa/Salix sitchensis in riparian area, on the edge of campsite. Warner mountains, Modoc NF
beautiful silvery pileus thats gelatinous when young and splits in age with yellow/white stipe, fine fibrils at stipe apex and guttation at base
Smell and taste indistinct
KOH indistinct
Orange/yellow fluorescence on all parts of mushroom
Secotioid Russula “Macowanites” growing from disturbed, soil on the trail next to an exposed root in Picea sitchensis dominant mixed conifer forest. Sue-Meg State Park
Creamy yellowish/buff secotioid gills. Tan/beige on the exterior
Smell super sweet, chemically like pineapple or bubblegum
Bright yellow fluorescence
Found in fog drip saturated Sequoia sempervirens dominant coastal forest with Pseudotsuga menziesii and Notholithocarpus densiflorus understory. MMWD
Growing on fallen log
Small bright yellow/orange club fungus. Mostly single finger-like projections, some bifurcating
Found in fog drip saturated Sequoia sempervirens dominant coastal forest with Pseudotsuga menziesii and Notholithocarpus densiflorus understory. MMWD
Fruiting from soil on a moss-covered patched of steep, exposed Earth being held together by Sequoia sempervirens roots
Grey/brown waxy feeling pileus with white, waxy-like broadly attached to subdecurrent lamellae. Fibrous white stipe
Smell and taste indistinct
Blue UV rxn on lamellae
No KOH
On rotting branch of live oak along stream.