Found growing of dead Engelmann Spruce on the side of a small stream.
Found growing of dead Engelmann Spruce in the middle of a small stream.
Found growing of dead Engelmann Spruce on the side of a small stream.
Psilocybe gandalfiana nom. prov.
Biggest cascade chanterelle I've ever seen. It had to be 12 inches across!
Spores:
measuring 7.78 – 10.15 × 5.44 – 6.69 µm
Q = 1.26 – 1.64 ; N = 30
Me = 8.57 × 6.16 µm ; Qe = 1.38
9.00 × 6.35
8.45 × 6.13
8.91 × 6.31
8.71 × 6.50
8.31 × 5.71
9.11 × 6.62
9.01 × 6.60
8.71 × 6.17
8.11 × 6.08
8.25 × 6.12
10.15 × 6.18
8.82 × 6.61
8.78 × 6.05
7.89 × 5.52
8.40 × 6.48
8.20 × 6.05
8.36 × 6.25
8.09 × 5.68
8.43 × 6.03
8.16 × 6.23
8.50 × 6.30
8.61 × 6.35
8.41 × 6.48
8.24 × 5.72
8.63 × 6.28
8.57 × 6.34
8.97 × 6.69
8.56 × 5.92
8.20 × 5.44
7.78 × 6.19
Growing on an alder tree covered in moss 3 feet off the ground this area is a large hardwood forest with elderberry alder and blackberry near a river.
I found these morels in an abandoned marijuana farm in foothills park. The guerrilla farming activity disturbed the ground a couple years ago. They were not directly under any trees but there was coast live oak, bay, and chamise nearby. I fried them in grape seed oil until they were well browned, they were delicious.
[admin – Sat Aug 14 02:00:30 +0000 2010]: Changed location name from ‘Foothills Park, Palo Alto, CA, USA’ to ‘Foothills Park, Palo Alto, California, USA’
Growing under Arizona cypress (Cupressus arizonica). This was well into wild country in the Coconino National Forest, with no man-made landscape mulch or bark chips in the vicinity.
No visible spore print in 24 hours.
I have kept a small air-dried fragment if anyone wishes to have it for a microscopy or DNA study.
WA, USA Cascades Growing on old dead Hemlock wood
Fuzzy little tooth fungi growing on likely a conifer log.
Isarioid cordyceps, asexual morph, collected under and in accordance with a DNR issued permit.
co-observation of this specimen here:https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/190965139
collected by Matthew Koons
Site accessed with DNR permission
Cordyceps cf tenuipes; found by Jack Johnson and photographed by Matthew Koons; collected for sequencing.
Hybrid of Psilocybe thaiaerugineomaculans and Psilocybe niveo-tropicalis created by Julian Mattucci
Spores: subrhomboid,
measuring
7.86 - 9.92 x 5.91 - 8.6 μm
Q= 1.02 - 1.46
N=30
9.34 x 7.15
9.92 x 6.94
9.71 x 7.34
8.95 x 6.75
8.39 x 6.62
9.39 x 7.92
8.74 x 7.18
7.86 x 6.47
9.53 x 8.01
9.19 x 6.57
9.22 x 6.43
8.93 x 7.27
9.48 x 6.60
8.25 x 7.40
9.74 x 7.89
8.88 x 6.53
9.81 x 7.18
9.54 x 8.08
9.33 x 7.17
8.95 x 7.81
8.04 x 6.16
9.04 x 8.60
8.07 x 7.90
9.27 x 7.50
9.52 x 7.77
9.16 x 6.83
9.25 x 6.33
8.93 x 6.58
8.69 x 7.25
9.47 x 7.19
Young specimen. Fruiting hypogeously beneath Western red cedar and Douglas fir. Most likely a young tuckahoe- all white and leathery before hardening and turning crusty brown… Herbarium specimen available in Olympia, WA.
Gleba thick, leathery. All white, with small rhizomatous filaments surrounding.
Interior-potato like, hard. Odor: pleasant, sweet, faintly fungaloid.
Temp: mid 50’s.
Elevation: Sea level.
UPDATE on 7/11/24:
Mounted dry/powdery glebal tissue/spores on a glass slide in 3% KOH.
Spores: ROUND!!!! Thick walled and roughened on exterior. Making it impossible for this collection to be Wolfiporia(Wolfiporia have distinctly cylindrical spores).
Updated my identification for this collection to Mycenastrum corium based on round roughened spores, thick leathery Peridium(flaky textured) and brown spores at maturity(not white).
Growing under Pinus virginiana
Under Tsuga canadensis and Pinus strobus. Odor of cinnamon.
Young button-nearly 12cm wide. under oak, Douglas fir and Western red cedar.
Hunting with Lee Walstad at the holotype location.
Multiple, large earth tongues fruiting beneath Douglas fir, Western red cedar and Western hemlock trees.
Bright yellow.
Some specimens rather large(7-9cm long).
Temp: upper 30’s, raining.
Elevation: 2,972 ft.
Fruiting from the side of a decaying coniferous log in Tsuga and Pseudostuga forest; approximately 10x8 cm, about the size of my fist. Flesh was firm (including the spathulate projections on the cap) but not woody. KOH was negative. Specimen collected for microscopy and sequencing.
Paper:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ayevu-JyGTZf5jnFng5hC5yPw8Q1fh_R/view?usp=drivesdk
Well that’s funnest milk cap I’ve ever seen
Camera lens was completely soaked and fogged due to the heavy rain and hail today. Unfortunately, I came upon this beautiful P. multiplex at the end of the day. Very large, meaty specimen with 2 other FB’s nearby. This is the only specimen harvested this season(out of 5). Delicious and buttery compared to Cantharellus species- lacking apricot aroma but has a spermatic almost “natural morel” odor, especially after dehydrating.
Also interesting was the fact that this large cluster(and the others around it) were deeply indigo blue in the field but became jet black with gray hymenium by the time I arrived home. Never seen this before.
Fruiting beneath Spruce and old growth Douglas fir.
Elevation: 4000ft.
Temp: 30’s mixed rain/hail.
NOTE: Dehydrated specimens available.
The Big Oyster collection, from one of the potted plants in the garden section.
From this thread.
Fruiting in a newly developed neighborhood/construction site. Construction began at this location during Summer 2022. Recorded the location and returned again today(4/22/23). Abundant fruiting in grass surrounding a newly installed lamppost/street lamp(installed during construction Summer 2022).
Microclimate created by heat/vibration from lamps overnight. All fruiting bodies within 3 ft. of lamp post bases. We have noted this occurrence under lampposts with M. importuna for over 10yrs in new developments(most abundant flushes always beneath lampposts).
Note the ladder like/vertically arranged pits.
Harvested 11 specimens for culinary use(left multiple young fruits to mature over remainder of Spring season here).
This is the 2nd new development site on my 2023 list that has begun producing fruiting bodies so far this Spring.
Dehydrating all specimens for future use and bagging a single specimen for herbarium collection/genetic record with this observation.
my coinciding Mushroomobserver observation below-
on fallen bitter cherry
Large (~8" wide) shelf fungus growing on birch stand. One of many
Same collection as observation 459233
Growing from rotted Southern Beech wood. Slight hint of blue bruising visible on the stem.
Growing out of painted trellis/awning. Spore print rust colored, taste bitter.
Same location as seen January 2nd, fruit bodies persisting into present but photos are from 2/27/2023
Update: still fruiting 4/4/23, new pictures added
Laricifomes officinalis 9/10/21 notes:
Location: Cayuse Pass, WA-elevation 2500ft.
Three separate Young fruit bodies on a fallen 2nd growth Douglas fir.
Very soft, mailable pore surface(easily poked my finger into it and left depression-note mark at lower left of front specimen). Pore surface and entire context easily scraped with fingernail. NON staining where handled/scraped.
Easily sliced a portion/sample off of a single specimen with my pocket knife to obtain a spore print and dehydrate sample for herbarium collection/sequencing. Rapid regrowth/healing will begin immediately and does not effect future production/growth spore drop here. I plan to monitor this group with growth updates for many years to come(as with many of my previous observations of this species).
Left the remainder to continue fruiting for years to come. Will monitor perennial growth of all specimens to maturity(granting no one harvests them).
Interior/context: concentrically banded with 2 prior seasons of pore layer production(2 distinct visible rings in side/interior view after being sliced open). Once specimens take on a flat bottom, the perennial growth rings are then counted from the bottom only-at this stage they are counted vertically from interior center outward. These have dropped spores for 3 seasons.
Pore layer visibly separate from the rest of interior(light creamy yellow pore layer tubes-appear like dense paintbrush strands from side cut view).
Friable/mailable flesh(easily separated from interior(like soft blue cheese between fingers).
Taste: Extremely bitter and when tasted the flesh dissolved quickly on tongue(as with all the 20+ collections of Laricifomes officinalis I’ve tested over the years.
I Immediately spore printed the fruiting body on a glass slide upon arriving home. Left to print overnight.
Spore print: creamy light yellow.
Microscopy performed for spore images using my celestron scope(images included here).
Spores: very small.
Mostly all cylindrical, a few ellipsoid and ovoid. Smooth.
Sliced small specimen in half and dehydrated slices in dehydrator for over 12 hrs at 115F.
Coinciding Mushroomobserver observation below-
I uncovered these while looking at some Flammulina on the exterior of this downed log - this area was totally dark which might explain the form of these. Still would be difficult to confirm these without more info I think.
Given to Ben Lemmond of the Smith Truffle Lab. Sweet pineapple odor.
Approx 5 feet away from 20yr old Doug fir in a Doug fir plantation (failed xmas tree farm I think)
Dark brûlée between Doug fir and truffle.
Found by a chonky Labrador whose been training with the scents. Mild truffle scent to this one, must be an immature specimen.