shirleycogley's Identifications

Single small fruiting in grass at Kettleview park.
Harvested specimen.
Spore printed cap directly on a glass slide.
Spore print: black.
Mounted spore printed slide in 3% KOH.
MICROSCOPY:
Spores: Lemon shaped, large, not roughened but with a few droplets/guttules within spores, thick walled. Germ pore present on pointed side. Dark golden brown/black in KOH.
Dehydrating specimen for herbarium collection/genetic record.
My coinciding Mushroomobserver observation linked below-

https://mushroomobserver.org/553258

Removed dried gill tissue from cap later in evening and mounted in 3% KOH on a 2nd slide.
Cheilocystidia: with variable tips/necks.
Basidia: 4 sterigmate.
Spores: dark brown/black.
Trama/base cells: rounded to irregular/abundant.

Key Features- Gregarious to solitary growth habit, Caramel colored caps, rounded conical & slightly umbonate, stipe tough and white, young specimens have incurved margin with whispy white veil, significant blue bruising on cap and stipes, mature specimens have pronounced wavy margin and cinnamon-brown color, generally small statured mushrooms, caps 1.5-4cm, stipes 3-6cm long

Clear-almost translucent white colored fan shaped flat cap with wide round stem and wavy margins and slight hairs/serrations on underside has small light pores or teeth? Where spores would be released. Very jelly like hard to hold and very cold to the touch. Growing under coniferous trees with light canopy cover below pine tree with blackberries and ferns small patch of 4 growing next to base of tree
260’ elevation

Wavy cap, caramel coloring.

Plant associations: Ammophila maritima, sparse Pinus contorta, Cytisus scoparius, Gaultheria shallon, and Vaccinium ovatum
Defining characteristics: Caramel colored, wavy cap. Blue bruising.
Weather was 50 and overcast.
Habitat is coastal.

Habitat is coastal.
Weather is 50 and overcast.

On fallen decaying Red cedar branch
In red cedar and doug fir cove
Weather damp and cool
White margin with orange brown color and dark black brown center with purplish ring around dark spot
Earthy smell
Rubbery leather texture- tough

Date: 10/13/22
Weather: sunny and overcast
GPS coordinates: 46°7’26” N 121°46’6” W 3002 ft elevation
Substrate: duff and decomposing moss
Habitat: growing in a dry bog / field, medium sun exposure
Vegetation: Huckleberry, moss, and young spruce

Little Huckleberry Mountain, near parking lot in association with huckleberry, pine, hemlock and Allotropa Virgata. Partially buried in pine duff with some grazing damage to cap. Veil mostly intact, but gills visible and broadly spaced. Smell was mild and flavor was mild. Cap of larger specimen was 4 cm across and 5 cm tall. Specimen were gathered in warm dry weather at 3050 ft elevation.

Date found: 10/12/2022
Location found: Skamania County, WA, in the forest path I took with Mike Beug
Weather: Clear skies, slightly damp in the air and ground, slightly chilly.
Habitat: I found this mushroom growing in the ground with a few smaller Amanita muscarias near it of varying size and color. This is the largest one of them all in that area. Very fibrous and spongey to the touch on the stamen and the cap was quite rubbery.

Date found: 10/12/2022
Location found: Skamania County, WA, in the forest path I took with Mike Beug
Weather: Clear skies, slightly damp in the air and ground, slightly chilly.
Habitat: I found this mushroom growing in the ground with a few smaller Amanita muscarias near it of varying size and color. This is the largest one of them all in that area. Very fibrous and spongey to the touch on the stamen and the cap was quite rubbery.

Oct 6th was dry and partially sunny/cloudy all day. The specimen was found on the forest floor of a conifer dominated landscape/forest. The lichen is minty green, foliose, and has many apothecia visible and open.