White fungus parasitizing pupae,
Trailside
Small, light brown truffle,
Gelatinous, solid, marbled gleba,
No odor/UV/taste,
Growing trailside,
Near alder/sitka spruce,
Elliptic to oval spores
Dark brown to purple cap,
Creamy gills,
White stipe,
Very spicy,
Yellow UV,
Indistinct odor,
Growing trailside,
Near sitka spruce/redwood
Found in a Eucalyptus globulus and Hesperocyparis macrocarpa dominant forest, Lands End Trail, Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Growing from Eucalyptus globulus leaves, twigs and especially numerous on seed pods
Stipitate, yellow to orange to brown goblet-shaped cup fungus. Hymenophore flat, outer excipulum finely hairy, base of stipe brown
Found in a Eucalyptus globulus and Hesperocyparis macrocarpa dominant forest, Lands End Trail, Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Growing on Eucalyptus globulus seed pod
Teal blue, spherical spore mass elevated on a brownish stalk
Immediately bitter but quickly fading, doesn’t stick around.
Small yellow, stipitate fungi on stick in creek,
Near alder
White fungus parasitizing insect pupae,
Found trailside,
Around 20 fruitbodies; largest cordyceps fruiting I've ever seen
F000149. On the side of a stream below a fen. Volcanic soil.
Microscopy: x1000 in Melzers
Orange rust on white poplar
Rust on roses in garden bed,
Black spots on top and orange underneath
More stills from Toogee Sielsch. Super cool to see this mutualism in Tahoe!
PICO, Aspen. Earthy smell, but not strong
Ectal excipulum with short, inflated terminal elements, hyaline, septate; end cell clavate, 5.4 - 7.5 µm wide.
Asci unitunicate, apex thick, euamyloid (IKI+); (33.8) 33.81 - 42.4 × 3.9 - 5 µm, Q = 6.9 - 10.6 ; Me = 37.9 × 4.6 µm, Qe = 8.3 (N = 5). Paraphyses hyaline, cylindrical, septate, branching, 1.7 - 2.5 µm thick. Ascospores hyaline, ellipsoid and slightly bent, aseptate, (5.1) 5.15 - 7.27 (7.3) × 2 - 2.3 µm, Q = (2.6) 2.63 - 3.1 ; Me = 5.9 × 2.1 µm, Qe = 2.8 (N = 5).
On bare rock walls inside mine, in total darkness.
On water-logged timber deep in mine, in total darkness.
Arthropod, found on log with other ophiocordyceps (see: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/231307480)
-could potentially be a young ophiocordyceps
Classic Elaphomyces aroma- onion-y, skunky, puppy breath
Rounded, pointy yellow top,
Parasitizing a reddish brown worm,
Found in deadwood trailside,
White purplish UV on top,
Near alder/redwood
White, powdery tufts sticking out of wood,
Parasitizing insect beneath,
Found in redwood(?) trailside near creek,
Near maple/alder
On edge of pond, some pine duff around close to Lodge Pole and fir forest. Found by @julienpometta
On wet decayed sedges, maybe Carex sp., at the base of live plants in a wet seep near Salix and Quercus kelloggii.
entomopathogenic fungi found on fly on the stipe of a cortinarius.
Found at 9733’
Possibly Psilocybe Gandalfiana, but could also be Leratiomyces cucullatus?
Riparian valley with hardwood canopy cover. McGee Creek, around 7,600 ft. Inyo National Forest
Growing in Brachythecium rivulare on bank of McGee Creek, near McGee Creek Forest Service Campground
Pileus umbonate, pointed, brownish/gray with purplish tones, inrolled margin, small rosecomb present! Lamellae covered by a thick, white cortina. Stipe white at apex, becoming darker near base, extremely fibrous with a silvery sheen
Smell indistinct
Microscopy
Spores = ~ 17 x 10 um, no reaction with melzers reagent
Not much scent
Not even the smell of sourdough
growing around the roots of
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/54659502
However the next day I found ones ~5-8 m away that didn't seem associated with those roots
Stromatic conidiomata. Conidiophores with one series of monopodial branching in clusters of three, (8.4) 10.6 - 12.5 (12.9) × (1.4) 1.42 - 1.7 (2.2) µm; Me = 11.3 × 1.7 µm (N = 6).
Conidia borne singly, hyaline, smooth, aseptate bacilliform, (10.2) 10.9 - 13.5 (15) × (2.2) 2.5 - 2.9 (3.2) µm, Q = (3.5) 3.7 - 5.3 (5.7); Me = 12.1 × 2.7 µm, Qe = 4.6 (N = 30); agglutinated in mucilaginous ribbons.
Growing on the trunks of tree ferns, photographed on black velvet.
raised in captivity to document growth stages and patterning variation
adult male
sparse saltgrass, among chenopods close to edge of playa, slight salt-encrusted soils
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 -
Tahoe National Forest in the 2022 Mosquito Fire burn scar. Pinus, Abies, Quercus and Calocedrus decurrens dominant mixed hardwood/conifer montane forest
Growing from compact burned soil on side of dirt road
Deformed, lobed, dense sporocarp. Exterior shaped of purplish grey, becoming more orange near margins. Hymenophore pored, white. Short, stubby stipe
Smell slightly sweet
Taste sharply bitter and acidic
Orange/brown KOH
Hymenophore brightly fluorescent
Odor indistinct. Lacking annulus.
PIJE
HAY-F-007804
trees closest that could be the species the wood its growing on is derived from
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/172465650
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/172465651
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/172465649
p7 4-1
On Geopora:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/208652805
Spores dark brown (speckled in transmitted light), smooth, broadly fusiform to citriform; walls 1.5 µm thick;
(23.5) 24.1 - 27.4 (28.8) × (13.1) 13.5 - 16.3 (17.4) µm
Q = (1.5) 1.6 - 1.9 (2) ; N = 31
Me = 25.9 × 14.8 µm ; Qe = 1.8.
Found by Connor Dooley,
Parasitized beetle larvae,
Tall, dark stroma sticking out of sand,
Growing trailside in Dunes
under Quercus garryana
HAY-F-005414
Spiky, brown top with white at base,
Seed shaped spores encased in thick gel inside,
On wood near redwood
Emerging from side dead conifer, possible Jeffrey pine.
Secotioid agaric with shape of squashed baseball. Cap slimy, orange-yellow with fibrillose reddish brown scales. Gills grayish brown, wrinkled, looking like meat. Stipe well-developed but squat; white with reddish brown scales. Thick partial veil, becoming separated in older specimens but cap margins still very close to stipe (not opening).
Odor woody. KOH+ pink.