observation is for the fruits.
This was the only time I saw this Hygrocybe today and it was also the only time I saw this fruit which was of the same color. Some of the mushrooms were only stipes left as if something tried biting them.
The downside of living in the SF Bay Area: having to relearn mushrooms every year. At least I know a lot of shrooms it isn't. @damontighe.
Arctostaphylos mewukka host
under a slight shrump in the decomposed grantie like sand was a large fruiting of this mushrooms making a half circle around a Chamise plant. Manzanita was ~5 m away, otherwise it was all chamise. No scent. very viscid cap with a slime veil extending down to the stem, stem had large ridge on it making it slightly flocculus. cap had a grey hue to it in situ, but it may have been due to it being past sundown
UVF 365 nm = dramatic blue
Under primarily Doulas Fir, but some spruce and grand fir present, about 5600’ elevation . Fragile/crumbly, with orange gills similar in color to Cantharellus, growing mostly buried. Strong aroma - yeasty, like rising bread dough or beer. (Other suggestion for smell: like lettuce with Ranch dressing. ;-) Possibly secotoid?
Hongo encontrado en Parque Cordillera en el sendero los peumos , no logre tomar mejores foto porque estaban en lugar de difícil acceso
HAY-F-007670
p6 7-6
HAY-F-007583
the worst Lactarius I've ever tasted. Immediate fire at the tip of my tongue, so bad I couldn't taste anything the rest of the day. The next day the tongue felt bured, day 3 tongue has papellae that have swollen are and are hopefully cycling
Latex unchanging
Grey blush on the stipe
Zonation on the cap
Cap surface sticky
Flesh relatively dense feeling
p3 3-2
HAY-F-005457
p5 2-8
From my culture of this species. The culture was started last year from locally wild-caught individuals from this area.
From my culture of this species. The culture was started last year from locally wild-caught individuals from this area.
I just discovered that they bioluminesce when disturbed! It's very very faint. I took them into a dark closet and blew on them. I couldn't see any glow when looking directly in the culture, but if I looked slightly away I could see the glow with my peripheral vision.
soil under spruce, fir and aspen. odor of fresh hot pepper JM17 Abineau Tr San Francisco Peaks
DNA sequenced
FDS-CA-00750
Mixed hardwood/conifer coastal forest near the south fork of the Gualala River
Growing on dead Arbutus menziesii leaves fallen near the side of dirt road. Studding the underside with affinity for the central vein
Tiny orange spheres. Hard to the touch. Endophytes?
?! On E. prunastri
On a fallen twig. Putah Creek South Fork Preserve, Yolo County, California.
Spores 11-11.5 X 4-5 µm.
HAY-F-005388
Growing all over live Tree of Heaven.
Hypogeous under interior live oak, gray pine, valley oak and blue oak nearby. No odor.
Found by @samzanita at the base of a blade of grass on the underside of a log. Same specimen as this observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/199743127
The specimen was collected by Nate Dube and will be examined by them under higher magnification.
It was actively raining that day hence the shiny wet surface of the specimen.
Springtail on a mushroom found by @damontighe at the indicated time. Specimens were photographed later that evening in San Francisco at a KQED Live event.
This springtail was missing one leg and part of one antenna.
In captive culture, appeared after death.
HAY-F-003035
nanopore able to see parasite
Rabbit dung. @werdnus have you ever seen something like this? F000208
@damontighe @catchang @leslie_flint @chyroptera Do any of you recognize this? It was all over the underside of dead huckleberry leaves
Not sure of ID
found by and co-observed with @damontighe will link to his observation when available
Gall formed on Panaeolus by diptera! https://www.bioinfo.org.uk/html/b148075.htm
HAY-F-003018
Thank you to the incredibly cool homeowner who allowed me to study the mushrooms on their lawn.
Same observation as https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/154332861
Very small, fruiting from exposed soil along creek.
Found along inner edge of seed scale (pine cone), where meeting the ground.
On Dalea frutescens.
Laetiporus gilbertsonii
The Jurupa Oak ~ 13,000 years old
On Aeonium
On deer poop
Found by truffle dog Rye in burned prairie plot
Growing on Quercia kelloggii
A mold on Amanita muscaria subsp. flavivolvata.
On underside of partially submerged log. Collected one of the flies.
Going to try and see if I can collect spores
Found dead along shore. No conspicuous cause of death that I could see.
I understand there was a prominent red-brown algal bloom (Heterosigma akashiwo) in the same area just a day prior. A possible cause of death.
Rediscovered this observation from 2018 with no small amount of excitement; I think it may show Pleurotus cystidiosus with both its anamorph and teleomorph on display!
See the second picture for a diagram of my assumption. Unfortunately I didn't have a microscope in 2018, so no spore shots are available. The third and fourth images isolate the anamorph and teleomorph respectively.
I am aware that there are a few (closely related?) Pleurotus spp. that can also present anamorphic forms, so please let me know if the identification is off.
Growing on the hollowed-out inside of a corticate Acer sacchariferum stick. The “heads” of some of the synnemata were being eaten by millipedes. Clamped hyphae in the base of the synnemata with lateral “nubs” that may have been the starts of blastoconidia or “secretory cells”. Brown conidia breaking off from clamped hyphae (arthroconidia) in the “heads” of the synnamata within a drop of slime. Conidia measurements from Piximetre: (11.6) 12.5 – 19 (23.9) × (4.8) 5.2 – 6.5 (7.1) µm, Q = (1.9) 2 – 3.5 (5); N = 30, Me = 16.2 × 5.8 µm; Qe = 2.8
Individual conidia: 16.94 × 5.91 µm, 12.83 × 6.48 µm, 16.69 × 6.55 µm, 13.60 × 5.93 µm, 14.11 × 5.80 µm, 15.73 × 6.06 µm, 11.90 × 5.12 µm, 12.98 × 6.82 µm, 15.12 × 7.15 µm, 16.32 × 5.72 µm, 13.73 × 5.61 µm, 11.58 × 6.09 µm, 11.95 × 5.84 µm, 14.72 × 5.07 µm, 19.02 × 6.23 µm, 18.22 × 5.47 µm, 17.87 × 5.17 µm, 17.45 × 6.34 µm, 18.37 × 5.42 µm, 19.05 × 5.26 µm, 15.82 × 6.27 µm, 17.72 × 5.71 µm, 16.88 × 5.67 µm, 16.51 × 5.35 µm, 17.55 × 5.49 µm, 17.44 × 5.35 µm, 23.85 × 4.78 µm, 18.33 × 5.91 µm, 12.52 × 5.35 µm, 22.65 × 5.80 µm
I think..?
Some kind of mite...?
Microscopy:
spores: 32-38 x 27.5-29 μm
with @damontighe
The last picture is shot by a full spectrum camera, with UV pass and IR block filter stack. UV flora, aka UV Bee Vision.
Isolated from an infected fungus gnat submitted by @damontighe
Isolated from an infected fungus gnat submitted by @damontighe
Isolated from an infected fungus gnat submitted by @damontighe
Isolated from an infected fungus gnat submitted by @damontighe
Side by side of co-occuring Octoglena sierra (top) in the family Hirudisomatidae and Bdellozonium cerviculatum (bottom) in the family Polyzoniidae. You can see the characteristic upturned caudal edges of the tergites of Hirudisomatidae in O. sierra, vs the not upturned, smooth caudal edges of the tergites of Polyzoniidae in B. cerviculatum. Octoglena sierra (as is the case with many hirudisomatids, but not all) also has a broad telson.
Found several under rocks and logs on a rocky, grassy hillside, maybe 1-2 mm long, fairly active. I think these should be called candy cane mites or Christmas mites.
Datos de Yopal: registrado en Bosque Seco Tropical (temporada de lluvia). Precipitación mínima de 15 – 25 mm en los meses de enero y diciembre, precipitación máxima 350 mm y 300 mm en los meses de mayo, junio y julio; con menos de 60 mm de lluvia en el mes más seco y precipitación anual superior a 1270 mm. Cuenta con valores mínimos de humedad relativa a inicio del año (65%), y valores más altos en junio, julio, agosto y septiembre (90-85%). Cuenta con una altura sobre el nivel del mar entre 0 y 1000 m, una pluviosidad entre 2000 y 4000 mm y temperatura promedio mayor de 24 °C, con amplitud de temperatura máxima de 8 °C, como se referencia en DANE. Los máximos valores de temperatura no sobrepasan los 36 °C y los mínimos valores no logran bajar los 19 °C que se presentan en febrero y en julio, respectivamente. Temperatura media anual mayor de 20 °C, con una estación seca y una lluviosa bien definidas (Bustamante et al., 2017; DANE, 1999; Castro y Sosa, 2017).
Se observa con frecuencia plantas representativas de la zona como Yarumo (Cecropia peltata), Jobo (Spondias mombin), Cedro (Cedrela odorata), Nauno (Albizzia guachepele), Cañafistol (Cassia moschata), Flor blanco (Tabebuia orinocensis), Uña de gato (Cynodon dactylon), entre otras.
Te dejo algunas recomendaciones para tus registros. Las fotografías y descripciones que hagas, te van a permitir identificar el ejemplar. Más información en: https://colombia.inaturalist.org/journal/teodoro_chivatabedoya/54937-registro-de-hongos-macromicetos
Hongos de Colombia (Bogotá, 2019):
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343651635_Hongos_de_Colombia_Contribucion_al_Conocimiento_de_la_Biota_Fungica_en_Ecosistemas_de_Humedal_Bosques_Andinos_Subparamos_y_Paramos_de_Bogota_DC
Bibliografía General de Macromicetos:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19VZivWVc5ueyBABX73KIfBGei9smvMzh?usp=sharing
Otras recomendaciones en:
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on a dead Modesto ash tree