Cap viscid stem dry. In wood chip landscaping. Taste moderately farinaceous.
Something's causing these leaves to swell up and turn pink, like some rusts do but I couldn't find obvious fruiting bodies.
First seen and photographed by Felix Collins.
Brian Patrick said I should put up this record as there are no observations of bat-winged fly on NW!
San Vicente Redwoods- Mixed hardwood/conifer forest that burned in the 2020 CZU fire
Growing on the side of trail in burnt soil in an area of high severity burn dominated by early successional Eriodictyon californicum and Ceanothus
Rusty orange, strongly hygrophanous pileus. Lamellae light orange/brown becoming darker in age, finely serrate, narrowly attached to notched to broadly attached. Stipe becoming slightly enlarged at base, fibrous, twisted in some specimens, covered in delicate white fibrils that easily come off, giving it a "frosted" appearance
Taste and smell indistinct
Brown KOH on pileus
Burn scar of CZU fire, in live oak & madrone woodland. Found underneath the bark of a fallen oak log
Found amongst mesquite woodland. Possibly/probably transported here by humans but bears and bear habitat are not terribly far from here and a starving/sick animal may have wandered onto the desert to die
Growing on mossy bank of road in redwood forest. Pileus light blue, velvety-scurfy, domed. Lamellae not yet mature, whitish. Stipe light blue, with slight soft scurfy to granular ornamentation.
Growth Habit: Subconnate to gregarious
Habitat: Growing directly underneath pine and was initially completely covered by pine needles and leaf litter.
Distribution: Florida
Odor: Buttered popcorn
Spores: Rusty brown, measuring 8.99 – 11.69 × 4.9 – 6.69 µm
Q = 1.56 – 1.96 ; N = 19
Me = 10.12 × 5.67 µm ; Qe = 1.789
10.44 × 5.47
10.19 × 5.33
9.78 × 5.18
9.52 × 4.9
8.99 × 5.44
10.55 × 5.84
9.70 × 5.80
10.19 × 6.03
10.28 × 6.24
10.52 × 5.35
9.77 × 6.25
11.69 × 6.69
10.30 × 5.52
9.97 × 5.84
10.45 × 5.79
10.33 × 5.33
9.83 × 5.96
10.45 × 5.37
9.36 × 5.48
Parasite fungus on Aleurodiscus grantii noticed on iNaturalist observation by Connor.
Harte was able to pull out sequences from the parasite from the nanopore data.
Fruiting in a tangle of hawthorn near the quartermaster harbor. 50+ fruiting bodies. Extremely viscid all over. Caps displaying the “windows” hence “Gliophorus fenestrata” or whatever.
Caps orange-red to yellow with darker striations. lightening around cap margin. VERY stick and viscid. planar to convex. 1.5-3cm diameter
Gills adnexed - subdecurrent, creamy yellow to pink
stipes yellow and marbled. very slippery and sticky. 4.5-7cm long. 0.25-0.5cm wide.
no smell or taste at all
Hygrocybe fenestrata - the skinny yellow kind. Seen this type on Hygrocybe hill but different from the one at squaxin and on Maury island
Fruiting from dirt bank near a cedar and a patch of H. flavescens.
caps slimy/viscid but not as much as the more red-orange H. fenestrata, which feels like a Gliophorus or H. flavescens. caps yellow-light yellow.. translucent-striate. whit on cap margin. 1.6-2.7cm diameter
yellow-white gills medium spaced, broadly attached to notched,
stipes sort of viscid, but more on the moist side. the largest fruit had a nearly dry stipe. pure white with the subtlest of yellow blush.
0.2-0.4cm thick
4.3-9.2cm long
Gliophorus fenestratus nom. prov. sensu MoRC, actually a Hygrocybe
found by @fish_narc I poked around and found a few more fruit bodies including this in situ mushroom. same area and some of the same mushrooms as his observation
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/194950438
Smells and tastes like radish, bittersweet. Under Hesperocyparis forbesii.
Gregarious and some clustered.
On interior surface of bark from well-decayed alder log under unidentifiable rotting agaric, maybe a Clitocybe? Long fibers along the entire length of stipe, shorter fibers on cap appearing powdery silver, easily brushed away revealing smooth dark cap. Gills with blue UV fluorescence
Wavy, ridgelike false gills on a tiny (<1cm) cap. Cap fragile and bumpy on its surface.
Found in abundance, growing exclusively on horsetail. I have so far been unable to find a species matching it.
The interesting ecology was enough to warrant going back today to get a sample for sequencing.
A rare 10 Waxy Cap! Found in a mixed coastal forest of mainly Western Red Cedar (Thuja plicata) and Big Leaf Maples (Acer macrophyllum) next to fruitings of Hygrocybe flavescens and near H.coccinea. Found directly underneath Sword Fern (Polystichum munitum) fronds. 1 mature and 3 immature fruits. 2 were vouchered. Incredibly viscid and beautiful.
Same locality as Luca Hickey's collection: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/68580293
This hill hosts a large variety of fungal diversity, especially within the Waxy Cap family and has been the site of many of our unique specimens over the last 5 years as part of the "Hygrophoraceae of the Lower Puget Sound" project. It's very exciting to see another year of fruiting for this fungus so far from it's previously known range.
On succulentous decayed Rhus integrifolia stick
Mature woodland, dominated by live oak, sycamore, and Rhamnus ilicifolia. On rotting live oak log. Pinkish flesh colored merulioid crust with warty texture. No caps.
Yellow/orange brainy resupinate fungus
Growing from a sodden, dead log overhanging Near East Fork Barton Creek, San Bernardino NF
Irregular, brain-like growth patters, almost looks like bacteria on a petri plate. White mycelial filament extending from the growing edge
Smell indistinct
Slightly allowing KOH
Growing on well-rotted Pseudotsuga menziesii stump. Pale yellow crust fungus, smooth hymenium surrounded by radial white mycelium.
Orange/brown crust growing from cut end of dead Abies. In CA incense cedar/Abies/giant sequoia dominant mixed conifer/hardwood forest. McKinley Grove, Sierra National Forest
Very thin and adhered to substrate, hard to peel off
Taste/smell indistinct
Slightly yellow KOH
Glows orange under UVB
Growing from mixed leaf litter and woody debris under Alnus rhombifolia, Quercus kelloggii, and Calocedrus decurrens.
Odor egg-like
UV+ blue
Small, tan fungi with darkened center,
Younger specimens have a fuzzy cap,
White UV on gills,
Eraser odor,
No KOH,
Growing on deadwood,
Near maple and redwood
On grass trailside in damp, very protected north facing slope, abundant. Excipulum hygrophanous, fading to white. Fruitbodies concave to flat when young, pink-red, becoming pulvinate and nearly scarlet color in age
Stipe texture and pileus shape of younger ones made me think Mycena but probably not. Xeromphalina? Fruiting from soil in streambank with Abies magnifica and Pinus jeffreyi nearby. KOH brown. Odorless. Chrysomphalina aurantiaca and Galerina sp. in close proximity. KOH brown. Odorless.
Under Genista linifolia and Rhus integrifolia. Extremely strong odor of general anesthetic gas/nitrous oxide that was dizziness- and nausea-inducing
Ex. Platanus. Slide-mounted to confirm ID. Coll. D Miller. Photo 4 is 10x, photo 5 is 1x.
sometimes growing in large numbers, densely and gregariously, see third image, always from exposed tree roots, in this case those of Thuja plicata (have also seen them grow from Madrone and decaying sword fern central root balls.)
Spore deposit white. Cap 2.3 - 4 cm across, not hygrophanous. Stipe 2.2 - 2.7 cm long x 3 - 6 mm thick, white rhizomorphs dense at the base. Odor slightly grassy. Taste mild, leaving a slight lingering astringent sensation. Gills up to 3.5 mm tall, most 2 - 3 mm. Spores inamyloid, elliptic, smooth, (4.4) 4.43 - 4.9 (5.1) x (2.6) 2.7 - 3 (3.4) µm. Q = 1.55 - 1.7. Although I'm not an expert, I believe the pileus pigment is intracellular. Could also be Clitocybe ramigena due to the shorter stipe and darker gills, but I chose R. pruinosa due to the cap color, odor, and intracellular pileus pigmentation (versus pigment in slightly thickened hyphae walls or very finely encrusted hyphae). These were growing in a Sitka Spruce/Douglas Fir forest.
Growing under Quercus agrifolia; seems to almost match the description of Russula olivacea in Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast, except that they were growing under Oaks and were medium to small size. It's a bit difficult to tell in these photos, but they had both pale green (mostly concentrated on the discs) and pale purple tones (mostly concentrated around the margins). After handling there was some grayish-brown discolorations on some of the stipes.
shout out to morgan/julien for sending me the spot!
larger specimen (photos 1+2): from stipe base to cap apex: 2.4 cm
cap diameter: 0.4cm
the smaller one: 1.3cm stipe to cap
same location as https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/198255114 (18 days ago) and https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/197638529 (25 days ago)
check out those observations for a detailed description of the environment ^
specimen collected
Coprinellus 'PNW 04' growing completely submerged in flowing water on various small pieces of wood. I have no reason to think the water level here has recently risen, in a spring and summer long stream of snowmelt directly below a culvert in a considerable current, we haven't had any significant hot streak that would have raised the flow.
Overmature and mature clusters collected. Bases of the stipe seemed to have a "holdfast" adaptation at the base similar Vibrissea, see pictures. (I know they are in a different order, more of a visual metaphor)
FDS-CA-00713
Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park, Pinehurst Staging Area- EBRPD. Baccharis pilularis, Eriogonum fasciculatum, Frangula californica, Umbellularia californica and Quercus agrifolia dominated CA chaparral and woodlands
Growing directly from Pseudotaxiphyllum moss on the base of Umbellularia californica
Benign looking white to brown mushroom with widely spaced beige lamellae and a darker brown thin stipe studded with very fine hairs, disappearing in age. Cap hygrophanous
Smell indistinct
FDS-CA-00723
In Pinus radiata and Quercus agrifolia dominated suburban forest
Growing mostly on the underside and beneath bark layer on decomposing Pinus radiata log. Seen growing in the cavities of the log where the woodlouse seem to be eating the mycelium
Yellow to orange pored crust with white margins. Tops of reflexed fruit bodies slightly tomentose, pores elongating in age to appear almost dentate and becoming slightly silvery in color
Smell like brie cheese
Taste sweet
Yellow KOH
Brought to 2019 LAMS Fair. Sequenced by Rick Kerrigan:
“Your specimen of the unusual dark-capped species (from a fair or table or ... earlier this year) is in fact what was suspected as the leading candidate: the undescribed CA species that may be Australasian, or related to that ‘megalocarpus group’ but a separate species.”
GQ_2019 in the phylogenetic tree.
Burned Quercus/Pinus dominant woodland (now shrubland post-burn), just west of Knoxville road near Lake Berryessa
Growing in soil and directly off fine roots in a hole leftover from a burned out root system
Brown pileus with a wavy margin. Lamellae white to cream colored, anastomosing, subdistant to distant, broadly attached to subdecurrent. Stipe short, fibrous, off-center
Smell indistinct
Orange egg like cluster of fungi looks similar to nidula peridioles growing on deadwood near fir
Growing in mixed conifer forest under a yew tree. Pileus matte, powdery lipstick-brick red, with raggedy white veil tissue at margin. Lamellae reddish pink, free. Stripe fibrous, reddish with white scales, bruising dark red easily. K+ black, smell indistinct
Another long term brainworm genus+species - upon digging through the literature, realizing that this is a long and winding wormhole…. This collection was fruiting abundantly throughout the interior of this soggy hardwood (likely Tan Oak) log. At first glance they remind me of shorter, skinnier, hairier, yellowish brown toned Henningsomyces. Some fruitbodies have a cone shape instead of being straight-sided tubes - this is easiest to spot in the largest fruitbody in the photo 1. The white fuzz visible in the first photo was covering the subsection I eventually photographed.
Macro Summary:
Receptacles sessile to short-stipitate, pale honey-yellow color, scattered to closely gregarious, 0.25—1.5 mm. high, 0.25mm-ish in diameter, tubular to narrowly cup or cone shaped, finely fibrillose with pale honey yellow appressed hairs (see photo 5); without subiculum; hymenophore appearing smooth white (see photo 4); margin white or paler than rest of fruitbody; Odor: indistinct; did not taste: milk none observed (water stuck in the tube may appear to be milk but it is not); did not check chemical changes; Spore Deposit: ??
Micro Summary:
Did not succeed in getting a spore print or a slide where the hairs were not overwhelming the basidia and spores – poss elliptical spores, but hard to say or measure with confidence. Hairs unbranched, thick-walled, brown and finely encrusted over their entire lengths (see photo 7) - therefore leaning Maireina rather than Merismodes (see Zibarova below).
Useful Obs:
Heelsplitter 2022: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/145780266 (Maireina maxima w microscopy and DNA)
Betweenthelyons 2022: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/144394042 (Genus Maireina w DNA)
Leptonia 2019: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/20518937 (Genus Maireina w microscopy & DNA)
References Consulted:
Cooke, 1959, The Cyphellaceous Fungi: A Study in the Porotheleaceae https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Sydowia-Beihefte_4_0001-0144.pdf
Laessoe et al, 2016 A new species of Maireina on Filipendula ulmaria, https://www.funga.fi/Karstenia/Karstenia_56-1-2_2016-5.pdf
Zibarova, 2019, Some Cyphelloid Fungi_with Cylindrical Fruit-bodies in the Czech Republic (in Czech but I Google Translated) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337898772_Nektere_cisovcovite_houby_s_trubicovitymi_plodnicemi_v_Ceske_republice_Some_cyphelloid_fungi_with_cylindrical_fruit-bodies_in_the_Czech_Republic
Per Zibarova: Syn.: Merismodes ochracea (Hoffm.) D. A. Reid, Phaeocyphellopsis ochracea (Hoffm.) W. B. Cooke, Solenia ochracea (Hoffm.) Pers., Cyphellopsis maxima (Massee) Donk, Maireina maxima (Massee) W. B. Cooke, Solenia maxima Massee. Also see taxon name changes at https://www.mycobank.org/page/Name%20details%20page/573202
The GBIF image gallery includes a herbarium slip for a P. ochracea obs from Cooke, collected in Inverness, Marin County on Coast Live Oak.