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Spores:
measuring 7.78 – 10.15 × 5.44 – 6.69 µm
Q = 1.26 – 1.64 ; N = 30
Me = 8.57 × 6.16 µm ; Qe = 1.38

9.00 × 6.35
8.45 × 6.13
8.91 × 6.31
8.71 × 6.50
8.31 × 5.71
9.11 × 6.62
9.01 × 6.60
8.71 × 6.17
8.11 × 6.08
8.25 × 6.12
10.15 × 6.18
8.82 × 6.61
8.78 × 6.05
7.89 × 5.52
8.40 × 6.48
8.20 × 6.05
8.36 × 6.25
8.09 × 5.68
8.43 × 6.03
8.16 × 6.23
8.50 × 6.30
8.61 × 6.35
8.41 × 6.48
8.24 × 5.72
8.63 × 6.28
8.57 × 6.34
8.97 × 6.69
8.56 × 5.92
8.20 × 5.44
7.78 × 6.19

I found these morels in an abandoned marijuana farm in foothills park. The guerrilla farming activity disturbed the ground a couple years ago. They were not directly under any trees but there was coast live oak, bay, and chamise nearby. I fried them in grape seed oil until they were well browned, they were delicious.

[admin – Sat Aug 14 02:00:30 +0000 2010]: Changed location name from ‘Foothills Park, Palo Alto, CA, USA’ to ‘Foothills Park, Palo Alto, California, USA’

Hybrid of Psilocybe thaiaerugineomaculans and Psilocybe niveo-tropicalis created by Julian Mattucci

Spores: subrhomboid,
measuring
7.86 - 9.92 x 5.91 - 8.6 μm
Q= 1.02 - 1.46
N=30

9.34 x 7.15
9.92 x 6.94
9.71 x 7.34
8.95 x 6.75
8.39 x 6.62
9.39 x 7.92
8.74 x 7.18
7.86 x 6.47
9.53 x 8.01
9.19 x 6.57
9.22 x 6.43
8.93 x 7.27
9.48 x 6.60
8.25 x 7.40
9.74 x 7.89
8.88 x 6.53
9.81 x 7.18
9.54 x 8.08
9.33 x 7.17
8.95 x 7.81
8.04 x 6.16
9.04 x 8.60
8.07 x 7.90
9.27 x 7.50
9.52 x 7.77
9.16 x 6.83
9.25 x 6.33
8.93 x 6.58
8.69 x 7.25
9.47 x 7.19

Young specimen. Fruiting hypogeously beneath Western red cedar and Douglas fir. Most likely a young tuckahoe- all white and leathery before hardening and turning crusty brown… Herbarium specimen available in Olympia, WA.

Gleba thick, leathery. All white, with small rhizomatous filaments surrounding.

Interior-potato like, hard. Odor: pleasant, sweet, faintly fungaloid.

Temp: mid 50’s.

Elevation: Sea level.

UPDATE on 7/11/24:
Mounted dry/powdery glebal tissue/spores on a glass slide in 3% KOH.
Spores: ROUND!!!! Thick walled and roughened on exterior. Making it impossible for this collection to be Wolfiporia(Wolfiporia have distinctly cylindrical spores).
Updated my identification for this collection to Mycenastrum corium based on round roughened spores, thick leathery Peridium(flaky textured) and brown spores at maturity(not white).

Camera lens was completely soaked and fogged due to the heavy rain and hail today. Unfortunately, I came upon this beautiful P. multiplex at the end of the day. Very large, meaty specimen with 2 other FB’s nearby. This is the only specimen harvested this season(out of 5). Delicious and buttery compared to Cantharellus species- lacking apricot aroma but has a spermatic almost “natural morel” odor, especially after dehydrating.

Also interesting was the fact that this large cluster(and the others around it) were deeply indigo blue in the field but became jet black with gray hymenium by the time I arrived home. Never seen this before.

Fruiting beneath Spruce and old growth Douglas fir.

Elevation: 4000ft.

Temp: 30’s mixed rain/hail.

NOTE: Dehydrated specimens available.

Laricifomes officinalis 9/10/21 notes:
Location: Cayuse Pass, WA-elevation 2500ft.
Three separate Young fruit bodies on a fallen 2nd growth Douglas fir.
Very soft, mailable pore surface(easily poked my finger into it and left depression-note mark at lower left of front specimen). Pore surface and entire context easily scraped with fingernail. NON staining where handled/scraped.
Easily sliced a portion/sample off of a single specimen with my pocket knife to obtain a spore print and dehydrate sample for herbarium collection/sequencing. Rapid regrowth/healing will begin immediately and does not effect future production/growth spore drop here. I plan to monitor this group with growth updates for many years to come(as with many of my previous observations of this species).
Left the remainder to continue fruiting for years to come. Will monitor perennial growth of all specimens to maturity(granting no one harvests them).
Interior/context: concentrically banded with 2 prior seasons of pore layer production(2 distinct visible rings in side/interior view after being sliced open). Once specimens take on a flat bottom, the perennial growth rings are then counted from the bottom only-at this stage they are counted vertically from interior center outward. These have dropped spores for 3 seasons.
Pore layer visibly separate from the rest of interior(light creamy yellow pore layer tubes-appear like dense paintbrush strands from side cut view).
Friable/mailable flesh(easily separated from interior(like soft blue cheese between fingers).
Taste: Extremely bitter and when tasted the flesh dissolved quickly on tongue(as with all the 20+ collections of Laricifomes officinalis I’ve tested over the years.
I Immediately spore printed the fruiting body on a glass slide upon arriving home. Left to print overnight.
Spore print: creamy light yellow.
Microscopy performed for spore images using my celestron scope(images included here).
Spores: very small.
Mostly all cylindrical, a few ellipsoid and ovoid. Smooth.
Sliced small specimen in half and dehydrated slices in dehydrator for over 12 hrs at 115F.
Coinciding Mushroomobserver observation below-

https://mushroomobserver.org/468265?q=1j5hi

I uncovered these while looking at some Flammulina on the exterior of this downed log - this area was totally dark which might explain the form of these. Still would be difficult to confirm these without more info I think.

Approx 5 feet away from 20yr old Doug fir in a Doug fir plantation (failed xmas tree farm I think)

Dark brûlée between Doug fir and truffle.

Found by a chonky Labrador whose been training with the scents. Mild truffle scent to this one, must be an immature specimen.