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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

“Albogymnopilus nanus” nom prov.

Salt Point State Park, Central Trail near the water towers. Mixed confier/hardwood coastal forest; Sequoia sempervirens, Abies grandis, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Notholithocarpus densiflorus, Pinus muricata, Arbutus menziesii
Growing in sandy soils under Notholithocarpus densiflorus and Rhododendron groenlandicum on side of trail
Small white mushroom with white to cream, smooth pileus and stipe, light orange to brown narrowly attached lamellae. Rusty brown spore print
Smell indistinct
Taste mild
Extremely fluorescent (green/yellow) on all parts!

Salt Point State Park, Salt Point Loop Trail. Mixed confier/hardwood coastal forest; Sequoia sempervirens, Abies grandis, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Notholithocarpus densiflorus, Pinus muricata, Arbutus menziesii
Fruiting directly from well decomposed Pinus muricata
Bright orange/yellow resupinate crust with extended tubes ending in irregular shaped pores
Taste mild
Smell like blue cheese
Bright orange KOH

On sequoia cone, also with stipitate Helotiales.

Conidia on greenish-gray branching filaments up to 1.5 cm talll. Conidia hyaline, 7-8.8 x 5-6.5 µm, elliptical to balloon shaped with truncate base, conglutinating into large clusters. Hyphae brown, septate, 20 µm thick.

Growing on fir forest on the west side of a mountain crest. Large clitocyboid, pileus grey-brown, ornamented with fine brownish scales, irregularly peeling. Lamellae pinkish white, decurrent, brittle. Stipe white, thick.

Found in coastal conifer/hardwood mixed forest, Salt Point State Park, Stump Beach Trail
On moss covered log
White, fuzzy fungus (looks to be in its anamorph stage) on feline dung
glows yellow under UV

Growing from soil under pine duff making a large mushrump under Pinus ponderosa. Warner Mountains, Modoc NF
Large, fleshy serrated lamellae with a pink spore deposit. Fibrous white stipe and brown pileus
Smell indistinct, taste farinaceous
Slightly browning KOH rxn on cap, none on stipe or gold

Found in fog drip saturated Sequoia sempervirens dominant coastal forest with Pseudotsuga menziesii and Notholithocarpus densiflorus understory MMWD
Growing in Sequoia sempervirens duff
Blue stiped Entolomataceae with a completely inverted cap. Lamellae grayish
Smell indistinct

On Ericameria linearifolia.

Ascomata erumpent hamathecia, irregularly mound like, 0.3-0.5 mm diameter; ostiolar mound 0.1 mm tall, 0.2 mm diameter.

Dictyospores yellow-brown, 11–12 x 28–30 µm, transverley 4-septate, logitudinally 1–septate, surrounded by a distinct, hyaline, mucilagenous sheath 8–10 µm thick.

“Nivatogastrium” wrightii (?)

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; whitish with red-brown scales.

Large, densely cespitose groups in planter with tomatoes and rosemary, appearing after tropical storm. Downy/fuzzy universal veil tissue dense on cap, extending down the stipe, also present on annulus which is weak and falls away easily. Veil tissue very soft to touch, becoming sleek on cap with desiccation. Stipe bases enmeshed in stringy mat of plant roots (both rosemary and tomato.) Strong fungal smell, rotting fruitbodies were attracting flies. Very mild taste, almost flavorless. No UV fluorescence. Even the fresher fruitbodies are weak and floppy, falling over easily without plant/planter wall/other fruitbodies to lean on. Rotten fruitbodies very strong smell, turning black/brown.

Observation for fungi (not fly)

While I noticed this fungi at the time, I forgot I could duplicate photos and make another observation secondary to the main target observation, which was the fly.

Found in Nora’s Wood as part of my study to generate a funga report of the park starting in October 2020.

Unsure what this species is, there were dark droplets on the smaller mushrooms that stained my fingers a tobacco color, gills were very slug eaten but the small section has given a white to cream spore color. Found below a California incense cedar.

With Abies concolor.
Attractive bolete. Cap honey brown to peach; tacky. Stipe slender, upper 1/3 yellow with glandular dots, bottom with reddish brown fibrils against white background. Cap flesh whitish; stipe flesh more yellow, orange at base. Odor citrus. KOH+ dark grayish.

Growing from duff and organic matter under Ribes nevadense understory- Calocedrus decurrens, Abies and Alnus rhombifolia nearby
Near East Fork Barton Creek, San Bernardino NF
Subdecurrent gills with pale pink spore print (seen in third photo)
Farinaceous/cucumbery smell
Very bitter/chemically taste
Slightly UV reactive (hard to get photo)