Salix, TSME, VAUL, PICO
Mildly acrid taste
The downside of living in the SF Bay Area: having to relearn mushrooms every year. At least I know a lot of shrooms it isn't. @damontighe.
Found thanks to Emma Shelton’s ask for an ID on this observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/237391282
KOH = red on cap
UVF 365 = none detected
Scent = sweet
Flavor = heme / blood
Host = Alnus
Staining= blue on pores, slow
spores = 7.5 - 8.75 x 4.3 μm
54+ fruiting bodies. All within 1 m of water fruiting near exposed roots. Many with a mold infection.
also Penicillium vulpinum
This is a gastroid form of a soon to be described new species of Suillellus
Many have suggested this is near G. turbinates, and as most know Gastroboletus is polyphyletic and in process of being redistributed back to other genera.
Since this is only a single collection it may not get formally described as a form or variety, but it might...
Found in Hemlock cedar forest in mossy duff.
Taste is bitter, but doesn't linger into a peppery aftertaste.
Cap 5cm wide, green
Gills white, detached
specimen 4cm tall
stipe is 1 cm wide
Sporeprint white, spores are globose and 8um, warted, amyloid in Melzer's
No reaction on cap, stipe or gills in FeSO4 (iron salts)
A golden yellow reaction on cap and stipe from KOH.
Veratrum blue ghrey cup with sclerotinia
First four photos were of the dried specimen, months after collection. The rest of the photos are in situ.
F000319
Voucher IPL3083
Growing from a decayed conifer stump.
Cap 6cms., yellow-brown, tomentose, cracked.
Pores yellow, yellow-brown, angular and semi-decurrent, staining bluish-green.
Stem equal, narrowing at the base.
Spores (9.8)-(10.5-12)-(13) x (3.6)-(3.75-4.0)-(4.2); (Ortiz-Santana dimensions fit best), Qaver=2.9 cylindric.
Basidia (23x5) clavate.
Hymenial cystidia projecting (50x90),
fusiform with acute apex.
Willow and alder around
PICO, TSME, on edge of fen
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”.
Yellow with a green tinge, found among redwoods and by a creek
grass-dwelling...smells like Clitopilus prunulus, cucumber
A perfect circular and convex cap brown in color. With gills, growing in the grassland.
Beige colored convex cap with gills and the stem is white. From the woods of the Valley of Flowers.
Near Adenostoma fasciculatum
Salt Point State Park, near Central Trail. Mixed confier/hardwood coastal forest; Sequoia sempervirens, Abies grandis, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Notholithocarpus densiflorus, Pinus muricata, Arbutus menziesii
Growing on a well rotted and de-barked Notholithocarpus densiflorus
Tiny, pea sized orange pleurotoid fungus. Laterally attached stipe with distantly spaced, subdecurrent lamellae. Pileus striate, so thin you can almost see through it. Reduced stipe covered in tiny white hairs.
No noticeable smell, taste mild
On wet decayed sedges, maybe Carex sp., at the base of live plants in a wet seep near Salix and Quercus kelloggii.
Pinus contorta dominant forest, approx. 8,000ft. Badger Flat Campground, Sierra National Forest
Growing in a bed of Polytrichum under Pinus contorta with Fragaria vesca
Pileus brown to copper, slightly umbonate, fibrous, inrolled margin in younger specimens. Lamellae rusty brown/orange, broadly attached with a sub-decurrent behavior. Stipe thin, equal, fibrous, silvery white to almost lilac in color, faint rusty cortina intact in some specimens
Taste very bitter
Smell indistinct
Reddish/brown KOH
Diminutive, light brown mushrooms growing from mossy soil in Pseudotsuga menziesii and Notholithocarpus densiflorus forest. Pileus light brown, striate. Lamellae widely attached. Stipe long and thin, both stipe and cap ornamented with fine granules.
Growing in spruce dominated conifer forest. Pileus pumpkin orange, irregularly convex with a slightly flattened umbo. Lamellae orange-brown, narrowly to widely attached. Stipe light tan, fibrous, cylindrical.
with manzanita
Growing under Chamise; rapid dark KOH rxn
Under Quercus chrysolepis
Found in a ditch of shallow, stagnant water under redwoods and willows. Stalked, jelly like. Head broke open easily when gently squeezed, inside quite wet.
Yellow brown, stalked asco,
Growing on Alder leaf trailside
On conifer twig, from a snowlemt area at about 6500ft. My ID is a guess, happy to be corrected.
Non-viscid everywhere.
Non-viscid everywhere, purple colors in cap and stipe.
Brown, umbonate fungi with lighter margin,
White gills,
Fuzzy at base of stipe,
Growing on deadwood in camping area,
Near Doug fir/tan oak/madrone,
No UV/odor
Hidden in rotting Madrone log
Similar to Microglossum viride, but I am told it is an undescribed species.
@sigridjakob and @malacothrix have specimens for sequencing
Scale photo from my friend @bwelko. After I found the first one, we cleared out some leaves and found many more.
On Prunus fremontii, north facing wall of a steep canyon wash. Red/black KOH reaction on the cap.
Growing on burnt stump in the 2021 Caldor fire burn scar, Eldorado NF
Large, hard fruit body with hundreds of tiny holes on exterior, dissimilar from pores. Internal flesh tough and leathery clearly layered with internal tissue pinkish and external white/yellow with a darker band of zonation. Exterior tissue pink/purpleish and tender when young, white/yellowish and becoming harder in age.
Smell of blue cheese, taste extremely bitter
Red KOH, better seen on young specimen 2nd to last photo
Interesting UV rxn seen in 4th to last photo
Couldn’t find spores under the scope, just hyphae from the interior and exterior tissue, seen in last 3 photos
Found and collected by Cameron Tavis.
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
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
Uv neg. Yellow koh
Growing on pine cone,possibly Knobcone pine.
Magellan's Peatmoss Sphagnum magellanicum is the reddish colored moss growing up the hillside.
I believe this is the same species as another single specimen that I found rather nearby 3 years ago.
Stumped and delighted. What are these CONFECTIONS? The largest fruitbodies were 2mm to 2.5mm wide.
Note that the upper surface of the pileus has a dingy quality with fine hairs on top, At first glance they appear not to be stipitate, but there is clearly a stipe on many fruit bodies.
Also see obs fields
Growing under scrub oaks in chaparral. Very strange, glutinous white cap with a minutely sulcate margin.