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Mixed hardwood/conifer coastal forest, private property in Gualala
Growing from soil nearby Notholithocarpus densiflorus, Pseudotsuga menziesii and Vaccinium ovatum
Teal earth tongues with irregular club-shaped head and ornamentation on stipe
Smell indistinct
Taste mild
Yellow/olive green KOH
Glows orange in UV, KOH glows super bright yellow/green

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.

Growing in mossy soil under Adenostoma fasciculatum in chaparral. Stipitate cup fungus, compressed into a lip like slit. Exciple dark grey, ornamented with bumps, stipe white. Hymenium dark grey to black.

San Vicente Redwoods- Mixed hardwood/conifer forest that burned in the 2020 CZU fire
Growing from thick duff under Quercus agrifolia, Arbutus menziesii and Pseudotsuga menziesii. Found on the side of the forest that burned at low intensity in the 2020 CZU due to cultural fire
Pileus pale yellow with patchy, fragile, thin veil remnants. Margin decorated with tufts of white VR tissue. Stipe white, equal, finely flocculose. Volva small, adhered to stipe. Lamellae white, broadly attached, finely serrate
Smell indsitinct
Taste slightly floral
KOH yellow on cap and stipe
Lamellae fluoresce green

Mixed hardwood/conifer coastal forest, private property in Gualala
Growing on the seed pods spines of planted Castanea dentata found on the ground in orchard at edge of forest
Stipitate Ascomycetes with orange hymenophore and a brown stipe, becoming darker brown near the base. Goblet shaped when young becoming flattened in age
Fluoresce bright yellow

Mixed hardwood/conifer coastal forest, private property in Gualala
Growing in clay-rich soil and duff under Pseudotsuga menziesii near small, man-made pond
Black club with bulbous, irregular shaped spade head. Stipe extremely viscous
Smell and taste indistinct
KOH indistinct

Growing scattered in Sequoia sempervirens and Notholithocarpus densiflorus forest with Polystichum munitum and Toxicodendron diversilobum understory. Head dark brownish black, slippery but not sticky, sparkly in the sunlight. Stipe more chocolatey or sepia brown, finely ornamented with tiny studs.