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Spore deposit pinkish brown. Cap 1.7 - 5 cm across, hygrophanous. Stipe 4 - 8 cm long x 3.5 - 10 mm thick, hollow, abundant white basal mycelium. Cheilocystidia scant, cylindrical, subcapitate, or rostrate-ventricose. Basidia 38 - 55 x 10 µm, 4 -spored, clamp connections at the base. Caulocystidia abundant, cylindrical, typically 125 x 7.5 µm. Spores 5 - 6 sided, (8.7) 8.9 - 10.5 (10.8) x (6.9) 7.4 - 8.4 (9.1) µm, Q = (1.1) 1.13 - 1.3 (1.4), Me = 9.8 x 8 µm, N = 20. Growing under shore pine.

Growing on charred wood or burnt ground. Paraphyses straight or curved, tips swollen up to 6.3 µm wide. Asci tips blue in Lugol's solution. Asci 238 - 263 x 10 - 11.5 µm. Spores smooth, (14.9) 15.1 - 16.6 (17.1) x (8.2) 8.4 - 9 (9.2) µm, Q = (1.6) 1.7 - 1.9 (2), N = 20, Me = 15.7 x 8.7 µm, Qe = 1.8.

Within drip line of Pacific Madrone (Arbutus menziesii), and the trunk is about 12 in. diam. breast height and 20 feet away. Nearest Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) about 30 feet away. Nearest Oregon White Oak (Quercus garryana) 50 feet, and that tree is being suppressed. MF54878

WEW019 Was collected by Bitty Roy and Keyyana Blount on Feb 3, 2015 at Big Spires Prairie, which is a restored native prairie near Fern Ridge Reservoir, Lane County, Oregon.  The fungus is terrestrial and grass associated; the grass present was Festuca roemeri (native). This prairie had been burned a few months earlier, in the fall of 2014.  No trees were nearby.

Found by truffle dog Rye. Very strong raw horseradish scent. This specimen was found underground, but very close to another above ground fungus growing on the host bigleaf maple’s base, which looked to be a more mature version and had no odor. See last picture for comparison. This forest burned in 2020.

DNA 77 (tissue from white portion of fungus) and DNA 78 (tissue from black portion of fungus)

Found by truffle dog Rye, fruiting gregariously along an ephemeral creek bed. Some were visible without any digging (see the bright truffle in the creek photo).

Aroma predominantly of banana/starchy tropical fruit, with undertones of Kalamata olive. Fruit bodies dense, with rainbow tones in both the gleba and peridium including orange/yellow, pink, and purple.

Surrounding trees included mountain hemlock and firs. Elevation ~5500’. Notably, these were found a couple days after the first rains of summer/early fall.