Under Abies magnifica, all parts brown in KOH
Gills and context yellowish green in uv, stem base bluish
Found in Abies, Pinus and Calocedrus dominant forest, just west of Dry Lake, Shasta-Trinity National Forest
Growing in soil under a large Calocedrus decurrens, on the edge of a wet meadow
Conical, deep brown hymenophore with elongated, honeycomb-like pits throughout. Stipe off white to cream colored equal to club shaped to slightly bulbous, covered in fine crystal-like ornamentation. Hollow throughout
Smell spermatic
Taste indistinct
KOH indistinct
Hymenophore fluoresces bright blue/green
Most beautiful iridescence I have found to date in this species!
Growing gragariously on grass stems and other herbaceous plant matter as well as a Juglans nigra petiole in a floodplain. Locally abundant. Cups oriented upwards. Dendrohyphidia present on the outsides of the cups. Basidia 4-spored. Spores hyaline and ellipsoid. Measurements from Piximetre:
4.52 × 2.40 µm
4.33 × 2.35 µm
4.13 × 2.75 µm
4.45 × 2.94 µm
4.13 × 3.03 µm
4.32 × 2.95 µm
(4.1) 4.13 – 4.45 (4.5) × 2.4 – 3 µm
Q = (1.4) 1.5 – 1.8 (1.9) ; N = 6
Me = 4.3 × 2.7 µm ; Qe = 1.6
First recommended ID
The longest ones are about 1.5 mm long. Found on a small leaf in a hollow of a log used as a parking bumper.
These tiny anamorphs were found on decomposing leaves by my friend @debk .
All photos are focus stacks of images shot with a 10x microscope objective mounted to a camera.
On decomposing eucalyptus leaves
I think. Green colors faded as they matured in my collection box (3rd photo shows immature sporangia)
Chlamydopus meyenianus = Tulostoma meyenianum
according to MycoMap:
"This sequence is the first record of the species from the state
This sequence is the first record of the genotype in GenBank
Multiple genotypes are going under this name in GenBank"
taille spores :
(4,9) 5,2 - 5,9 (6,2) × (2,6) 2,8 - 3,2 (3,4) µm
Q = (1,6) 1,7 - 2 (2,3) ; N = 38
Me = 5,5 × 3 µm ; Qe = 1,9
Rabbit dung. @werdnus have you ever seen something like this? F000208
Staining = blue, ~ 10 min reaction
taste = alkaloid bitter
smell = sour
texture = like foam, able to easily peal off wood
host = Pinus sabiana
UVF 365 nm = orange
KOH = red to black over time
Porcupine latrine. Vouchered. JET230612_01
I am an avid mushroom forager, so one of my coworkers brought this specimen into work to ask me what it was that his dog had been digging up in his backyard in South Lake Tahoe.
I brought it home and found that it wasn't in any of my ID books so I posted online on a Facebook group to see if anyone knew what it was.
The following day, while I was at work, I saw that several people thought it was Lactarius rubriviridus, a rare species. I called my girlfriend to tell her, and she told me that our dog had taken it off of the counter and chewed it into pieces.
So, it was both discovered and destroyed by dogs.
My coworker told me that his dog digs them up all the time, but since then he has brought about 10 specimens to me, none of which have been rubriviridus.
I have what is left of the specimen dried in a ziplock bag, but it's a very small amount.
Note: The location on inaturalist is the correct general neighborhood but not precise. The property owner doesn't want the location online. He is continuing to bring me samples, maybe his dog will find another one.
All macroscopic and microscopic features are a good match.
Red-orange medium sized Spring fruiting apothecia, with long interwoven abundant well developed flexuous hyphoid expicular hairs, paraphyses with swollen apex, and ascospores that are smooth and eguttulatae are distinctive for this species.
https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/graduate_thesis_or_dissertations/zc77ss578
Phaeocollybia californica is the other mushroom in the photo. The location may have been burned in the Monument fire.
Fruiting next to and under melting snow in sandy soil chaparral with Artemisia nova
ITS matches holotype, as well as macro and micro characters. Dave Largent uses Nolanea subcapitata, not Entoloma subcapitatum. For Dave's note on this find see the Humboldt Bay Mycological Society newsletter, Mycolog May 2022, page 10. Voucher collection is RHM-22-3.
On a massive dead Pseudotsuga menziesii log in old growth dougfir forest with some yew, W red cedar and hemlock. Cap is (mostly) under 3cm, there is no veil and the stem is darker than the smooth cap. At least under current conditions, the caps are concolorous and not hygrophanous.
Microscopy tissue mounted in Melzer's reagent
Grown in moist chamber on juniper bark from UC Berkeley campus
Growing on a leaf base, in a hole, under a log
Collection: FG0140
Found by truffle dog Rye in a shady/damp area by a lake, under mountain hemlock and fir. One was relatively shallow, the other several inches deep. Aroma somewhat fruity, but also sharp of glue.
Mature woodland, dominated by live oak and sycamore. On dead branch.
Turquoise epihymenium. Phragmospores 38-48 μm.
cf. crassispora sp nov.
Some super blue staining tomentosus, never seen them stain like this before.
Extensive group of stalked sporangia 1.2-1.5 mm high. Iridescent peridium; yellow nodes of calcium carbonate within the spore mass; spores brown in mass, lighter brown in transmitted light, minutely punctate with groups of darker warts, 8 microns
Found on decaying log of Exocarpus cupressformis in wet eucalypt forest.
This species regularly appears on this log, usually after rain in summer or early autumn.
On conifer twig, from a snowlemt area at about 6500ft. My ID is a guess, happy to be corrected.
On resin of old-growth Pseudotsuga. Spores 7.5 - 9.2 × 3.7 - 5.5
Stalk bleeding green in KOH.