Dark brown truffles, growing emerging from duff in mixed conifer forest. Peridium dark pinkish brown, gleba white, of densely packed folded tissue. K-, smell indistinct
In soil with Quercus chrysolepis and Calocedrus decurrens.
Odor fresh
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.
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 -
Interesting UV reaction shown. The most beautiful lichen I've ever seen.
Partially buried in soil under Abies concolor, near Pinus jeffreyi and Quercus kelloggii.
Odor floral.
Exterior UV+ orange-yellow. Young flesh UV+ bluish.
Wash. In shade under Salix, emerging from woody debris and alluvial soil.
Cap orange-brown, darker at center, plane, gently umbonate. Gills dull orange. Stipe reddish brown, lighter on upper 1/4.
KOH red. Not UV reactive.
On Cylindropuntia californica. Erumpent clear jelly that changed to brown/orange then black when dried and no longer jelly-like. Left black scars on the cactus. No other fungi present to suggest that it was parasitic on Stereum, Peniophora or else
Along gravel road in mixed hardwood (beech, oak) woods with some white pine. Odor lightly spermatic. Spores smooth, 8-10 (11) x 4.8-5.5 um; cheilocystidia and pleurocystidia with crystals.
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)
Lip gloss odor. Mature coast live oak woodland. In buried wood under Quercus agrifolia.
On dead branch of Rhamnus ilicifolia.
Ascoma black discoid perithecia with central depression. Mature ascus 78 x 16 µm, thick walled, 8-spored; apex IKI-. Ascus walls thickest in immaturity, 4.9 µm. Ascospores hyaline dictyospores, 21-25 µm.
Note how the eyebrows are differently colored between picture 1 and two - After I played (with Merlin Bird ID) the calls of female sooty grouse, this fellow did a nice strutting dance (photo 4) and his eyebrow tissues became engorged and turned from yellow orange to much more reddish. Be warned, they become extremely excited if you play female calls. When I did so, this bird almost flew into my car window it was so excited.
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Slight Farinaceous odor detected. Sub decurrent to decurrent gills, strongly hygrophanous. In scattered duff under conifers.
Spores from nearby mushroom on my desk scattered onto slide, so i'll have to redo the spore micro. The spores are very likely broadly elliptic, and white, as I only saw spores fitting that description.
There were cystidia and odd inflated elongated hyphae protruding out of the gill face,
It was awesome. So awesome.
White rimmed foot, around 3cm long.
First two photos by Phil Evans (5/7/20 & 5/8/20)
Rest by Fred Rhoades (5/12/20)
Stereo view is a Right-Left stereo (cross your eyes)
Micro views first at 400X second at 1000X showing spores (6-7 um, smooth) and peridial net.