@natvik steve what is this and do you want it?
fruitbodies small, caps also small (1.5 cm across), round-conical when young, more plane in age. Caps red and orange with yellow tones towards margin. Cap disk darkening to blackish, stipe blackening slowly when bruised, gills becoming grayish and then black. Growth in grass among Panaeolina foenisecii.
Cucumber, earthy, Farinaceous. Tanoak, doug fir
Odor indistinct. Lacking annulus.
PIJE
On the edge of a vineyard and forested tree-line near my home on a ridge in Sebastopol
Growing on leaves of Rubus ursinus which is crawling up a fence
Bright orange splotches on underside of leaf as well as growing on sepals of maturing berry
KOH stain in the microscopic images
Possibly M. olivaceum from its tan color but hard to set just yet
Growing in soil under Sequoia sempervirens
Growing along the banks of a small creek in the redwoods. Dark turquoise green earth tongues without much ornamentation, head sometimes folded, with a short smooth stipe, surface dry.
Castle Rock State Park- Pseudotsuga menziesii, Arbutus menziesii, Notholithocarpus densiflorus dominant mixed hardwood/conifer forest
Growing in soil just off the Saratoga Gap Trail under Pseudotsuga menziesii, Arbutus menziesii, and Notholithocarpus densiflorus
Stipitate grey cup with tomentose exciple, smooth hymenophore. Stipe white to beige, covered in fine, almost crystal-like ornamentation
Smell indistinct
Taste astringent and farinaceous
KOH instinct
Two fruiting bodies found within 20 feet of large patches of Microglossum nudipes complex. Fruiting from needle duff unlike all other earth tongues around found fruiting from moss. Second photo compares the two Microglossum sp. on the left with M. nudipes found nearby .
~98% ITS barcode alignment with U.S. M. olivaceum and European M. rufescens
Found by Connor Dooley,
Parasitized beetle larvae,
Tall, dark stroma sticking out of sand,
Growing trailside in Dunes
Mixed hardwood/conifer coastal forest, private property in Gualala
Growing from soil nearby Notholithocarpus densiflorus, Pseudotsuga menziesii and Vaccinium ovatum
Teal earth tongues with irregular club-shaped head and ornamentation on stipe
Smell indistinct
Taste mild
Yellow/olive green KOH
Glows orange in UV, KOH glows super bright yellow/green
Light brown with depressed center,
Tan, thin stipe,
White UV on gills,
No odor,
Growing off trail near redwood/doug fir,
Redwood, Doug fir, grand fir
On Geopora:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/208652805
Spores dark brown (speckled in transmitted light), smooth, broadly fusiform to citriform; walls 1.5 µm thick;
(23.5) 24.1 - 27.4 (28.8) × (13.1) 13.5 - 16.3 (17.4) µm
Q = (1.5) 1.6 - 1.9 (2) ; N = 31
Me = 25.9 × 14.8 µm ; Qe = 1.8.
Growing in mossy soil under Adenostoma fasciculatum in chaparral. Stipitate cup fungus, compressed into a lip like slit. Exciple dark grey, ornamented with bumps, stipe white. Hymenium dark grey to black.
Under duff beneath Quercus chrysolepsis
Mixed forest Pine, Cedar, Tan Oak nearby. Lots of very old decomposed wood chips.
Tanoak and bishop pine duff
Growing in moss in recently burned area. SEGI, ABCO, PILA, Alnus
San Vicente Redwoods- Mixed hardwood/conifer forest that burned in the 2020 CZU fire
Growing from thick duff under Quercus agrifolia, Arbutus menziesii and Pseudotsuga menziesii. Found on the side of the forest that burned at low intensity in the 2020 CZU due to cultural fire
Pileus pale yellow with patchy, fragile, thin veil remnants. Margin decorated with tufts of white VR tissue. Stipe white, equal, finely flocculose. Volva small, adhered to stipe. Lamellae white, broadly attached, finely serrate
Smell indsitinct
Taste slightly floral
KOH yellow on cap and stipe
Lamellae fluoresce green
Fruiting in moist lowlands with mixed hardwoods; mostly Salix. Spores elliptic, smooth, colorless, with single large oil inclusion, and
measured 17.5-21.25 x 11.25-13.75; a good match with H. solitaria (Abbott).
Collected by Justin https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/205799891
Found by a participant on a group walk, growing solitary out of moss. Out for sequencing.
Growing in alpine area coming up between rocks with grasses near, but no other obvious plants
Found and collected by Cameron Tavis.
in one of the most urbanized sections of this city. probably immensely stressed from pedestrians and their dogs, cars, and the lightrail.
Noticed fruiting out the side of a mossy birds nest under a bay laurel tree. Sitka spruce, fir, alder, and redwood growing nearby. Lots of rain recently and cold temps.
On Eriogonum reniforme, producing both aecia and uredinia
Torpedo shaped head,
Black to brown with cylindrical stipe,
No hairs,
Growing next to trail under sword fern,
Near redwood
Mixed hardwood/conifer coastal forest, private property in Gualala
Growing on the seed pods spines of planted Castanea dentata found on the ground in orchard at edge of forest
Stipitate Ascomycetes with orange hymenophore and a brown stipe, becoming darker brown near the base. Goblet shaped when young becoming flattened in age
Fluoresce bright yellow
Mixed hardwood/conifer coastal forest, private property in Gualala
Growing in clay-rich soil and duff under Pseudotsuga menziesii near small, man-made pond
Black club with bulbous, irregular shaped spade head. Stipe extremely viscous
Smell and taste indistinct
KOH indistinct
Fruiting on alder I think. Also hearty, Sitka spruce, redwood and fir, near river alongside urban trail.