On sandy soil under American Beech in broadleaf forest.
Sack-like volva, swollen base. Ring absent.
cap: 7.2 cm, slightly viscous (a match)
stalk: about 10 cm, at apex 1.2 cm wide widening to 1.4 cm at base, hollow with cottony filling.
base/cup: 7 cm wide
spore print: cream
spores: ellipsoid, uniguttulate or biguttulate, measured 10.3 - 11.1 x 7.4 - 8.2 um
on old decayed fungus
Progress of bruising ~7hrs after collecting. Hygrocybe conica, found by @jonathan_mack (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/175137283)
On the ground
Strobilomyces floccopus, or whatever this North American version of S. strobilaceus ends up being officially named.
Large, over 10cm cup under hardwood. I couldn’t find a single conifer around.
Also black patches of pyrenomycete
several specimens growing on the underside of a log; looks like a Crepidotus species is being parasitized.
growing on poplar log