Found in coastal conifer/hardwood mixed forest, Salt Point State Park, Stump Beach Trail
Found in a thicket of Carex, growing on dead Rubus ursinus stem right off the side of trail
Tiny black football-shaped or eye-shaped sporocarps. Margin dark teal in coloration. Larger, open sporocarps with a bumpy, teal-grey, almost gelatinous looking matrix filling the internal contents of the "eye"
Very viscid cap. Rusty gills. Very large: cap 9 1/2" across, 7" tall.
1/14/24-12
Yellow and gold groups growing on oak and redwood litter. Bruised blue and brown upon picking
Found on duff by tan oak trees among redwood trees. Oak leaves and redwood leaves on the ground. Two clusters of 3-5 fruit bodies ~10 feet apart.
Found in redwood, oak litter. Yellow cap and stem. Groin clusters
Fog drip saturated Sequoia sempervirens dominant coastal forest with Pseudotsuga menziesii, and Notholithocarpus densiflorus understory. MMWD
Growing from semi-disturbed soil on side of trail
Large, fleshy mushroom with a brown, finely fibrillose pileus. Lamellae white when young and turning dungy brown and the pinkish in age. White, fleshy annulus present in younger specimens, becoming reduced or disappearing in age. Long, rooting, fibrous stipe that comes to a point, slightly yellow at base
Taste slightly sour
Smell indistinct
Brown orange KOH on cap
Brown KOH on stipe
Person said specimen originated from Sausalito area
Photograph and sample taken from the 2024 Fungus Fair in Santa Cruz.
White to tan cap,
Tan gills,
White to light brown stipe,
Bulbous base,
Very viscid,
Indistinct odor,
Bitter taste,
No UV,
Growing next to trail near burnt wood,
Near tan oak/doug fir/madrone,
Found in mixed hardwood forest/chaparral habitat with Quercus agrifolia, Baccharis pilularis
Growing in shrump under Quercus agrifolia leaves
Incredibly dense, yellow pores. Velutinous white/off white cap. Bulbous stipe base, stipe apex and pores oxidize blue when cut. Base of stipe brown and then yellow at substrate attachment point.
Smell slightly rubbery
Taste bitter
KOH brown on all parts
Orange UV fluorescence where there was blue oxidation, pores and bulbous stipe base glows yellow
Small brown fungi with concentric bands on upper surface with thin stipe and pores,
Growing I'm burned soil next to trail,
Near tan oak/doug fir,
No UV/taste/odor
White, gills pleurotoid fungi growing on deadwood next to trail,
Near Doug fir/tan oak
small mushroom, found growing in clusters on a well-rotted hardwood log.
i'm split between Galerina (G. marginata seems to match all characteristics except for the cap, which seems more striate than i would expect from G. marginata, and what appears to be the lack of a ring or even a ring zone) and Tubaria furfuracea, which... idk, the vibes are a little off, and i normally find that on wood chips. tho i guess it can just be on a wood log too.
Light peach cap with white stipe,
Dentate,
White UV all over,
No odor/taste,
Growing next to trail,
Near OG redwood/tan oak/doug fir
Orange fungi,
Depressed cap center,
Scaly stipe,
No taste/odor,
White UV on gills,
Growing next to trail,
Near OG redwood/tan oak/doug fir
Found on edge of mixed hardwood/conifer forest and grassland east of Duvoul creek, Bohemia Ecological Preserve
Growing in an open grassy/mossy/lichen-rich area dominated by Monardella purpurea on the edge of grassland and mixed hardwood/conifer forest. In between two young Pseudotsuga menziesii
Black velutinous pileus becoming white near the margins with white fibrous stipe covered in fine hairs and white, broadly attached lamellae
Growing in mossy open area on edge of Doug fir bay toyon forest between two Doug firs
Smell indistinct
Taste slowly spicy, leaving tounge tingling
No KOH
Dark center with radiating color,
White gills,
White stipe with upward flaring annulus,
Bulbous base with white tomentum,
Near redwood/doug fir/alder,
White UV on gills,
Reddish brown KOH,
No taste,
Indistinct odor
Mild, red staining
small mushroom, found growing in clusters on a well-rotted hardwood log.
i'm split between Galerina (G. marginata seems to match all characteristics except for the cap, which seems more striate than i would expect from G. marginata, and what appears to be the lack of a ring or even a ring zone) and Tubaria furfuracea, which... idk, the vibes are a little off, and i normally find that on wood chips. tho i guess it can just be on a wood log too.
Around the roots of a fallen Tree-of-heaven