Spores 7-8 X 4 µm.
Spores 13-15 X 5 µm.
Spores 10 X 4.5-5µm.
with shore pine, no staining, next day bluing around pores
Russula subrubens- IMG-497
Caps – 3-5 cm wide, plano-convex with shallowly sunken discs. Pale olive-yellow, one with a flesh
colored margin. Not striate.
Gills – Adnate, buff with dark brown edges, not bruising when rubbed. Not furcate. A few lamellulae.
Stipe – 3-4 cm long and 1 – 1 ½ cm wide. Equal to clavate. White at apex, then very pale ochre-brown
below. Perhaps bruising pale brownish.
Odor – Of crustaceans.
Taste – Mild.
Spores – White, amyloid. 8-11 x 6.8-7.1 microns. No reticulations.
Setae – None seen at cap disc.
Habitat – Scattered under California bayberry at South Beach State Park near Newport, Oregon on
Specimen was collected by Jeff Stone, who gave it to me knowing my interest in odd xylariaceous fungi.
The yellow colour is a bit exaggerated by the dissecting microscope light-source and my camera. It was actually pretty subtle. Slides of spores are made with Melzer’s Reagent. Asci have a flat apical ring that is clearly non-amyloid. One photo clearly showing the two-celled ascospores.
I couldn’t figure this one out, thinking it was Xylariaceae. I sent it to Jack Rogers, and he identified it.
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Image #2: These are mounted in Melzer’s Reagent. Asci have a flat apical ring that is non-amyloid.
Image #4: Clearly showing the two-celled ascospores.
Image #5: The yellow colour is a bit exaggerated by the light-source. It was actually pretty subtle.
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Originally posted to Mushroom Observer on Feb. 7, 2013.
Found in multiple locations in the park on grass. Saved for cultivating and sequencing.
Growing at the base of a clump of sword fern, in a thicket of thimbleberry. Nearest trees are bay, with alder a bit further out, and spruce a little further still.
Brown spongey fruitbody growing on hillside next to trail,
Yellow pores/stipe; stipe also has red at base,
Stains blue,
No odor; eraser odor when cut,
No UV,
Orange KOH,
Indistinct taste; strange unpleasant aftertaste
On a fallen oak, in cracks in the bark.
Most plants a little past prime, but some still in good photographable condition.
Reddish morph photographed at 3:1. Smells like Scoliopus bigelovii.
Spore deposit grayish. Cap turns red with 3% KOH. Flesh turns pink with 3% KOH. Stipe base turns brownish red with 3 % KOH. Cap, stipe and flesh turn bluish black in Lugol’s solution. Spores 21 x 6 µm, smooth, subfusiform. Flesh is very firm, dense, rubbery to almost corky. Gills broadly attached, thick, wrinkled, enveloped in folds of flesh that become exposed as the cap expands and matures. Growing under Incense Cedar and 3 needle pines. Black oak close by.
Cap 1 cm across. Gills L=17, l=8. Stipe 5 cm long x 0.75 mm thick. Spores 10.9 - 15 x 8.6 - 11.5 x 6.8 - 7.9 um based on N=12 using ImageJ, dark reddish brown to black. Growing in grassy area, not dung. Discounted Parasola schroeteri due to stipe length ( 1 -2 cm). Coprinus marculentus is similar but the spore shape is more angular and spores are lighter in color.