thehyphaemovement's Identifications

Growing in wet mixed duff. Some appeared to be emerging from Redwood needles, but difficult to determine. The first image shows some that were emerging from a rotten Rhododendron (?) twig. Other options are California-Bay Laurel (Umbellularia californica) and Coast Live Oak (Quercus agrifolia) leaves.

Growing scattered in Sequoia sempervirens and Notholithocarpus densiflorus forest with Polystichum munitum and Toxicodendron diversilobum understory. Head dark brownish black, slippery but not sticky, sparkly in the sunlight. Stipe more chocolatey or sepia brown, finely ornamented with tiny studs.

In Hesperocyparis macrocarpus duff with Kindbergia and grasses. Pileus dark, shiny and appeased-matted, dark brownish blue. Lamellae creamy beige, free. Stipe oft pinching off, blue grey, somewhat scurfy with white cottony basal tomentum.