Light brown umbonate fungi,
Lighter cap margin with darkened center,
Lighter stipe with pruinose apex,
Yellowish gills,
White basal tomentum,
Partial veil on young specimens,
Older specimen cap are hygrophanous,
Growing trailside next to blackberry in sandy soil,
Near sitka spruce/Doug fir/coast redwood/alder,
Bright yellow UV on gills/cap margin/stipe,
No odor,
Red KOH on stipe; more orangey yellow on cap/gills,
Mild bitter taste
Brown, umbonate cap with flattened fibrils,
Lighter in center darkens outwards,White tomentum at base,
Growing next to trail,
Near alder,
Indistinct odor,
No UV/taste,
Growing on very wet, decayed wood (tanoak I think) along Zayante Creek
finally found some, was raining super hard and my pictures aren't very good. If I had recognized how small they were I wouldn't have misidentified so many other species
Growing from mixed leaf litter and woody debris under Alnus rhombifolia, Quercus kelloggii, and Calocedrus decurrens.
Odor egg-like
UV+ blue
LAMS24-191
Growing on bark of large piece of rotting wood on the ground in a shady forest near a creek, about 1 ft from observation 199986381.
On Alnus, sweet anise smell, UV light blue on gills
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)
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
pointy, rooting stipe; growing with Quercus agrifolia
Growing from mosses on rocks in live oak and Umbellularia forest in hillside ravine. Pileus dark blue with nearly black scurfy scales. Lamellae light bluish white, sometimes forking, narrowly attached, darkening and becoming covered in pink spores in age, UV+ bright bluish white. Stipe smoothly fibrillose, lacking cottony white base.
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)
Under leaf and branch litter under Quercus kelloggii, surrounded by Arbutus menziesii, Quercus agrifolia, Q. lobata or a hybrid thereof, and Pinus ponderosa, with an understory that has been badly invaded by Cytisus scoparius following a fire. Pileus dark gray, broadly convex with shallow umbo, with a single small patch of veil tissue stuck to the cap. Lamellae grayish-tan off white, free, very dark for an Amanita. Stipe ornamented with grey chevron patterning, whitish underneath. Volva conspicuously present at base, constricted midway, flaring at the mouth and tapering to a point at the base, very grey especially on the inside. No noticeable scent, UV-, KOH not sampled as only 1 specimen was present.
Mixed coast live oak woodland and chaparral. Under Quercus agrifolia.
Cap margin uplifted. Stipe scaly, without distinct annulus; stuffed and chambered. Volva bulbous, fleshy, emarginate.
Mature coast live oak woodland. In duff of Quercus agrifolia. Stipe slender with pink tones, mostly equal, abruptly bulbous.
Odor briny/wet dog.
Old ones smell like fish cheese gnarly, PISI, TSHE
Larger fruit body growing from soil, smaller one growing from Salix catkin. Found under Salix sp. by stream, Warner Mountains, Modoc NF
Funnel shaped and a pinkish spore deposit. Silvery tomentose concentric rings on pileus. Decurrent lamellae
Smell slightly sweet to farinaceous, like sweet bread
Very fluorescent! Green/yellow rxn on hymenophore as seen in last photo
Growing from soil under young Populus tremuloides grove with baby fir nearby. Warner Mountains, Modoc NF
Smell and taste farinaceous
No KOH
Strong yellow fluorescence
Rust on Sidalcea oregana leaves
Little blotches growing in a ring like pattern on back of leaves
Growing from Abies duff in mixed Abies/Pinus forest. Warner Mountains, Modoc NF.
Smell farinaceous, taste mild
Thick, white rhizomorph a extending from base, holding on tenaciously to substrate
Growing from mulch under Populus trichocarpa/Salix sitchensis in riparian area, on the edge of campsite. Warner mountains, Modoc NF
beautiful silvery pileus thats gelatinous when young and splits in age with yellow/white stipe, fine fibrils at stipe apex and guttation at base
Smell and taste indistinct
KOH indistinct
Orange/yellow fluorescence on all parts of mushroom
Secotioid Russula “Macowanites” growing from disturbed, soil on the trail next to an exposed root in Picea sitchensis dominant mixed conifer forest. Sue-Meg State Park
Creamy yellowish/buff secotioid gills. Tan/beige on the exterior
Smell super sweet, chemically like pineapple or bubblegum
Bright yellow fluorescence
Found in fog drip saturated Sequoia sempervirens dominant coastal forest with Pseudotsuga menziesii and Notholithocarpus densiflorus understory. MMWD
Growing on fallen log
Small bright yellow/orange club fungus. Mostly single finger-like projections, some bifurcating
Found in fog drip saturated Sequoia sempervirens dominant coastal forest with Pseudotsuga menziesii and Notholithocarpus densiflorus understory. MMWD
Fruiting from soil on a moss-covered patched of steep, exposed Earth being held together by Sequoia sempervirens roots
Grey/brown waxy feeling pileus with white, waxy-like broadly attached to subdecurrent lamellae. Fibrous white stipe
Smell and taste indistinct
Blue UV rxn on lamellae
No KOH
On rotting branch of live oak along stream.
“Nivatogastrium” wrightii (?)
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; whitish with red-brown scales.
Difficult to tell if it was on alder wood or a piece of a leaf that had fallen into a crack in the alder log that it was emerging from. ~4-7mm in length
On dead Opuntia.
Ascomata erumpent perithecia, thick-walled 380 µm in diameter with wide, conical ostiole 280 µm tall. Asci bitunicate, 140-150 x 19.5 µm. Ascospores pigmented brown, didmyosporus, with one cell smaller and more acuminate, 20-21.5 x 7-9 µm. Surface of spores minutely pitted.
In canyon wall and soil clinging to underside of boulder with roots nearby, presumably belonging to the Quercus chrysolepis uphill. Alder and bay laurel also nearby, alder being downhill near the stream
Growing on floating moss mat in boggy lake. Pileus vibrant reddish brown, slightly striate. Lamellae drying dark at edges, widely attached. Stipe thin, unornamented, fragile.
Beautiful, small Cortinarius growing from soil in young Populus tremuloides grove. Warner Mountains, Modoc NF
Reduced annulus with rusty spore deposit about half way down stipe, pronounced purple coloration at stipe apex. Conical pileus and sub-decurrent lamellae
Taste mild, smell indistinct
Purple/black KOH
In scrubland with Ephedra sp. Off-white truffle buried in the soil, centrally attached by a point. Gleba light tan, all parts staining yellowish.
Tiny gilled mushroom growing from a sodden, dead log overhanging Near East Fork Barton Creek, San Bernardino NF
No perceptible odor
Rust growing on Rosa sp. in riparian forest. Large orange masses of spores, developing usually at leaf petiole/midvein and often flipping the most heavily infected leaves over.
Sweet smell, some with slightly developed gills, PISI
Erumpent under spruce. Spores are mounted in Melzer's solution.
Growing on deadwood near alder/redwood Creekside,
Brainshaped cap on creme stipe,
No taste,
Indistinct odor,
Hollow interior,
Brown KOH,
Mild UV
under a slight shrump in the decomposed grantie like sand was a large fruiting of this mushrooms making a half circle around a Chamise plant. Manzanita was ~5 m away, otherwise it was all chamise. No scent. very viscid cap with a slime veil extending down to the stem, stem had large ridge on it making it slightly flocculus. cap had a grey hue to it in situ, but it may have been due to it being past sundown
UVF 365 nm = dramatic blue
Rodent digs found throughout the area exclusively under chamise. Manzanita also present, and interior live oak within 100 feet, but digs were only under chamise. Digging revealed that the mycelial mat that truffles were found in and smelled the same dissipated with distance from chamise. Melanogaster also mixed in and more abundant. Parts of the mycelial mat smelled like Melanogaster and parts smelled like these -- distinctly of oil paint. Woodrat nest about 8 feet away.
Diminutive solitary fruitbody growing under salvia and chamise; there was an oak on the other side of the trail about 40 feet away, more or less. Video showing the habitat: https://photos.app.goo.gl/bmwpQFsUpivQSTH78
With sapling of scrub oak in chamise-dominated chaparral. Cap 1.6-2.6 cm, broadly umbonate, margins curved inward; golden brown, fibrillose, rimose (“stretch marks” at margins), vellipellis entire, appearing variegated or splotchy as though hygrophanous. Not scaly. Gills adnate, cream to tan; upper gill and lower cap context with distinct olive tones. Stipe 1-1.5 x 0.7 cm, incarnate (color of aged bone with reddish orange tinges), bulbous, hollow. Caulocystidia only on upper 1/3. Odor farinaceous.
Spores elliptical, asymmetric, 10.2-10.8[11.4,11.5] x [4.8]5.2-5.6[6.1,6.5] μm
Gill trama cellular.
Pleurocystidia 52x11 μm, ventricose, lageniform to subcapitate, 1.2 μm thick. Cheilocystidia shorter, lageniform.
HAY-F-000477 found by Harte Singer
Small white mushroom growing near redwood,
Very viscid,
Stinky tire smell
Funny plastic like odor. Found by pdvmushroom, see https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/9640562
K red, brown on stipe, taste chemical spice, no smell. Quercus spp, UV -