In deep shade under a thicket of landscaped trees (maybe Fagus sylvatica) and blackberries behind the Talent City Hall.
On dead decapitated lepidoptera larva, I think.
Specimen was collected on April 1st and incubated in a moist container for 2 weeks, producing purple fruit bodies covered in conidia.
See observation
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/205155116 for original collection.
Growing on mixed conifer leaf litter in riparian forest. Pileus light tan, ornamented in cinamon-brown dusty looking scales, colored like a snickerdoodle; often dimpled in the center and irregularly wavy at margins in typical omphalinoid fashion. Gills wavy, some shallowly crossveined, deeply decurrent. Stipe whitish at apex, fading to pinkish brown at the base.
Small
Could also be a Sclerotinia sp.?
Feeding on sediment bottom. 15 ft deep.
Aeolid, 1.5cm long. Pink-peach body. Rhinophores smooth, long and joined at base. Cerata abundant with white tips and dark pink to red digestive glands with uneven, bumpy form.
Same observation as jonathan1232, same location, same date.
Growing in mixed conifer forest under a yew tree. Pileus matte, powdery lipstick-brick red, with raggedy white veil tissue at margin. Lamellae reddish pink, free. Stripe fibrous, reddish with white scales, bruising dark red easily. K+ black, smell indistinct
Soft and were smells funky sweet an white fir
Tons of it in a small area growing on dead Red alder (Alnus rubra) twigs
pupa-like structure found on a well-rotted log
Perithecia just starting to become pronounced. On ants. Found by @fish_narc. Vouchered. @corndog @richtehan
on Brochymena affinis or another insect in Pentatomidae
Okenia rosacea with eggs was located underneath a pebble on reef at a depth of 20 feet. Lengths were 1 cm. Water temperature was 64 degrees F.
A collection of fruitbodies of an ascomycete bryoparasite-- they were growing much more sporadically than this image suggests. Younger fruit bodies were translucent and sheltered into the moss until fully erumpent with mature fruit bodies buff/brown
Necrotrophically parasitic on Racomitrium, the discolored area was an oblong circular area approximately one square yard in diameter, I thought I took a locality photo but I can't find it.
Growing under a log in Hesperocyparis sargentii forest. Small mushroom, squashed from growing in tight quarters. Cap grey and purple, pruinose. Lamellae an interesting key lime pie green. Stipe reddish purple, twisted and bent.
Growing out of moss
This was first seen by @smellyturkey who's observation you can see here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/200154535
I think I saw this species last year:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/154667088
Habitat: Moss (Most likely Brachythecium or some similar pleurocarp) growing in a shaded wall of concrete.
Most fruiting bodies are less than a cm and have basal mycelium on the moss.
The first microscopy photo is in Melzer's reagent and the second in KOH.
Currently spores seem to grow and germinate in culture.
1 small fruit body was sequenced, but does not match the previous sequence obtained for this species. I'm inclined to think that the original sequence was contaminated as it was taken from a not so clean culture. I will update this with additional culture and fruitbody sequences. That being said, I will not upload this to genbank until I know for certain that the sequence read is good.
On another note hopefully I can find this again or can get multiple collections of this. I'll have to check the spot from last year.
If new sequences keep coming back as novel and I can't find anything in the literature I will take a crack at describing this as a new species (So long as I can get more than just ITS)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/178330978 and https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/178330951 observed the same day, same locality
Montane Entalomatoid growing in moist soil along trail edge, no overstory plants in the area.
Similar to a @corndog observation in a similar, nearby locality and comparable elevation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/183896554
and another collection of mine in Snoqualmie pass:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/184817852
Sample sent to @relg (Ariel Goldsztejn) 12/4/2023
Caps 1 cm diameter, 1.5 cm tall. Growing from the soil walls of subalpine meadow trail cuts with short but steep 20cm soil edges, ~5.750 ft elevation, presumably same species as https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/171323950 made nearby on the same day
Acomycete growing from decaying graminoid material in an area with Carex utriculata and Scirpus microcarpus. Growing gregariously over several square yards in a seasonally flooded area of a montane acidic fen peatland. @corndog has a Genus/Species concept for this and will likely be making another observation for these from this locality, I will link these observations when available
I think? Green alder nearby
fruitbody diameter ~3mm, in a seep area around 3000' under noble fir, a pine species and a range of understory plants, environment pictured
growing from soil under mixed Abies species, Pacific silver fir, Douglas fir and Hemlock
Single fruit body on a moss-covered curb in Phoenix Cemetery.
In wet soil on edge of fen, under sedges/spiraea
appears to be growing on Willow in all three sticks to my eye, these would be quite dark and somewhat large for Cudoniella . Growing in flowing water from a seep into a pond under Willow, Sugar pine, Pacific silver fir and Spirea
Mixed forest. Sea level. White spored. Dried and saved.
See microscopy. I think this was on conifer. Tricholomopsis growing on same log.
portentosum perhaps. Yellow on stem and gills. Viscid.
Appeared olive toned in the field.
Slightly floral
Very close to beach. Faintly pleasant odor. Taste, cucumber, slightly bitter over time. Doug fir.
Growing on a standing maple tree (which was fairly covered in moss). Small. Maybe subeuchroum?
Near Doug Fir and other deciduous trees, (salix, alder, others). Odor indistinct. Glutinous, pellicle peels off in one piece.
2/3 of micro, using KOH, last water. Have not figured out how to display measurements with new scope software yet.
Solitary, mixed forest of doug fir and maple, rooting stem, both cap and stem extremely viscid - glob of slime can be seen on the stem which I believe is thr partial veil remnant. Growing in duff. Collected, drying. Microscopy in last several photos, using water.
Growing from soil in a CA bay transition zone from redwood dominated to oak dominated forest
Cordyceps cf tenuipes; found by Jack Johnson and photographed by Matthew Koons; collected for sequencing.
Seemed to be associated with the peltigera??
moisty greasy caps tan to light brown, with visible striations for the whole cap on the lighter and younger specimens. 0.7-1.3cm diameter
omphalinoid. crenate margin.
gills beige, sort of translucent. wide spaced, decurrent.
stipes moist/sorta greasy, tan pinkish brown 0.7-2cm
ID by @jackjohnsonn <33
While not completely wild, this came up from a seed I tossed some months ago into a promising spot at the edge of a bunch of Himalayan blackberries that I hoped it would cover, to partially cover. I was quite pleased to see it today for the first time! This is one of the locally native species that I have introduced to Lincoln Park, that I estimated would have grown here, if only a seed had fallen in the right place.
This is now the 3rd Coastal Manroot - Marah oregana growing in the park where I tossed seed in what I estimated were promising spots. One germinated 3 years after the toss, and the other germinated 7 years after the toss. I think of this as nature saying if, and when, this species would naturally germinate in each spot. The first shoots of the year of one of the other 2. I see these plants as being a step or two closer to being part of a natural landscape than potted plants that humans planted there would be. I had only seen M. oregana growing in 2 - 4 places in Seattle previously, so I count it as a locally rare native, that I've given a boost to.
Here is another Coastal Manroot that I "guerilla planted" about 20 years ago, that substantially covers a large, unnatural juniper hedge where I preferred to see more wild, natural, and native, vegetation. It also competes well with some Himalayan Blackberries that also grow through the hedge.
Isolated from dung sample submitted by @mgkoons. Related:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/160685896
Isolated from dung sample submitted by @mgkoons. Related:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/160685896
Douglas-fir, western redcedar, rhododendron.
Scattered somewhat widely, frbs appearing “independent”.
No smell detected.
Cap and gill tissue a bit tough and elastic.
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Additional notes for sequences (bases on the right):
ITS: Sequenced by the Matheny Lab
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Originally posted to Mushroom Observer on Jan. 20, 2022.
on dead branch of Arbutus menziesii. Green in KOH. Raised hairs, near band of blue and then white at the margin.
PCR done by @mgkoons
Small, in trailside moss at ~4500 feet. could not find mature spores. Arrhenia? Lyophyllum?
Site accessed with DNR permission
collected by Matthew Koons
Site accessed with DNR permission
Small, clustered mushrooms found growing on the gnarled, seemingly burned stump ball of what appears to be one long dead and one living Madrona tree. Surrounding environment is on an island, high elevation forest of well spaced, mature conifers and thick, diverse moss blankets. Unique area. Mushroom is deep burgundy red, up to 3cm across the top. Very clean and uniform top. Stem is centrally attached, burgundy, and growing horizontally on nearly all mushrooms. Gills are closely spaced and deep burgundy as well, broadly attached/adnate. Never seen anything like this before. Last 3 photos show scraped spores from a print, put onto a dry microscope slide at 10/0.25 magnification. Spores appear ovate to slightly elliptic. @JRJFungarium
Sheep skull collected from a nearby field months prior, now has visible Horn Stalkballs
On Suillus ponderosus (presumably) which was fruiting right next to it and nearby in abundance. Does not look like any Hypomyces chrysospermus I have seen. Very carpet-y and pronounced fuzz, not just powdery. Saved some for sequencing.
Likely Typhula species, but ID tenative as I cannot rule out there are other fungi whose sclerotia look like this. These were absolutely everywhere in the leaflitter on the sphagnum.
/Marasmiaceae. Tough fruiting bodies, thickened stipe apex, on wood, odorless
up to 2cm tall, appear to be growing on seeds of some kind. In moss and peat in subalpine streambed. Falcate conidia formed on slimy heads.
Found near a creek growing out of moss and mud. No trees close by.
Fruiting bodies range from 5mm to 13mm tall, caps are 4 mm to 6mm, with the stipe being 1mm to 1.3mm.
Spore measurements:
(16.2) 19.7 - 23.8 (26.2) × (3.4) 3.5 - 4.2 (4.4) µm, N = 9
Slight curve to the spores, other are more straight. Appears to be eight spored.
Asci measure at
(77.6) 77.61 - 89 × 8.3 - 9.8 µm,
N = 3
Amyloid, slight blue reaction in Melzers reagent. Asci are abundant throughout.
Paraphysis about 1.9 - 2.7 µm with the tip becoming slightly larger.
On alpine streambank, in mosses and liverworts.
I collected this - need to check if it has gills, almost looked like it might not.
Was growing in a minimally vegetated alpine rocky sloe on a north aspect (vegetation is lacking due to late snow. Also a vein of serpentine in the vicinity.