Dark purple cap,
Purple stipe,
Glutinous partial veil,
White gills,
Viscid,
Indistinct odor,
No KOH; flouresces yellow,
White UV on gills/White parts of stipe,
Bitter taste,
Growing trailside in mossy soil,
Near sitka spruce
This mushroom is fruiting about 30ft below ground in a moist cave environment. I didn’t get a closeup because the downclimb is pretty tight. It has a yellow cap with white spots.
No KOH reaction
Growing abundantly under Coyote Brush in Oak woodland
Not much smell.
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Originally posted to Mushroom Observer on Jul. 13, 2020.
Nearly black! This was growing on a grassy edge next to a paved driveway and also under coastal Cypress.
In a very deep pile of Quercus parvula litter, on north facing slope. First timer
odor: phenolic; growing under fir, pine, cedar
under Chamaebatia australis and Ceanothus tomentosus.
Microscopy below generated by @rudydiaz:
Pileipellis a cutis of cylindrical hyphae 3.4 µm thick, roughened exterior.
Spores: Angular, 6 to 8-sided in profile;
(7.8) 9.1 - 10.6 (11) × (5.1) 5.9 - 7 (7.8) µm
Q = (1.3) 1.34 - 1.7 (1.8) ; N = 30
Me = 9.8 × 6.5 µm ; Qe = 1.5.
9.61 6.44
7.99 5.97
10.99 6.44
10.39 6.49
10.97 6.50
8.48 6.71
9.41 6.63
9.83 7.10
9.94 7.83
10.33 6.79
9.20 6.58
10.41 6.47
10.01 6.36
10.19 6.92
7.78 5.09
9.41 6.29
10.64 5.88
9.14 6.01
9.45 6.41
10.38 6.92
10.24 6.02
9.18 6.05
9.65 6.54
9.19 7.02
10.33 6.49
10.59 7.02
10.60 5.93
10.20 6.33
9.52 6.72
10.02 5.92
My best naturalist observation ever, on Christmas day
Hot pink tones under UV light on base and cap surface.
scruffy pink upper stipe; stipe grooved. Tall fruitbody under redwoods.
Perhaps the same species as the (faded?) specimens in Sava Krstic's observation on MO:
http://mushroomobserver.org/226542?q=rhM
Found in Nora’s Wood as part of my study to generate a funga report of the park starting in October 2020.
Unsure what this species is, there were dark droplets on the smaller mushrooms that stained my fingers a tobacco color, gills were very slug eaten but the small section has given a white to cream spore color. Found below a California incense cedar.
Growing on dead Quercus wood
With live oak. Only found under one particular older growth tree.
This was an odd mushroom. The stipes of several were fused together and one was fused upside down like it lost gravitropism.
Cortinarius atkinsonianus or very close
Fruiting in a streambed close to exposed roots of Alnus rhombifolia
This was the most abundant fruiting I found, and there was also Paxillus involutus fruiting with the same tree
Fresh pins show no evidence of partial veil, but the stipe of some mature fruitbodies seems to have a ring
Hymenium stains blue quickly
Dry older specimens acquire red tones on lower half of the stipe
Pores and stipe deep brown/red with KOH
Bitter, then hot taste
Found growing in potting soil
orangey-red staining, ornamented stipe and partial veil margin
Rhizomorphs present.
In duff of Quercus (Q. arizonica? and alligator juniper).
Smells like rotting meat, grows on the ground.
.ab1 files located at
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kNNLOmvrjm_yGhaG6ObyGP9jq1xeh2_y?usp=sharing
Fruitbody 2.7x1.3 cm
Found near Tanoak and Pine with Rhododendron and Huckleberry nearby with Manzanita some 30m away. When it was found it was cut in half and apparently oozed a whitish latex. Fresh aroma similar to Lactarius rubidus.
Collected by Katrina S. during SOMA foray.
Microscopic features at 1000x in KOH and also with Melzer's
Spores amyloid, globbose, 6.5-10.5um with reticulate ornamentation.
Unusual basidia, appears mostly 2 spored but maybe these cells are something else.
Large fruiting of very large mushrooms. KOH reaction Pictured - darkening of cap and orange on context of stipe and cap.
Mild farinaceous odor
I found this peculiar looking mushroom while walking around my yard. It had ring-like ridges and was funnel-shaped at the top. It had blue towards the edges and gradually faded to green towards the center. In its center it had a small pool of water. It’s too was only about 4 inches in diameter. It was the only one of its kind in my yard and all the other fungi in my yard looked nothing like it. I’ve never seen a mushroom like this before and I was wondering if anyone would be able to identify it?
Tylopilus cf. plumbeoviolaceus
Single specimen found with live oak and bay laurel in riparian corridor. Silvery stipe, farinaceous odor.
Growing out of a turret spider burrow!
Mild tasting.
Stipe white with light pink blush.
All gills reach stipe.
Yellow stains turning brown.
Gills cream to light yellow-cream.
Odor shrimpy.
Cap beautiful true red to gold or beige-white in some spots, not viscid in age, margin not sulcate.
Tentative ID, not an expert in fungus ID.
In wood chips under a blue oak in a residential neighborhood. ETA someone with more knowledge suggests this is S aeruginosa rather than S caerulea.
This Bobcat was seen casually working its way up the Big Sur Gorge.
Coastal Live Oak woodland
Not one I’m familiar with— iNat suggests hygrophorus
ID is best guess. Fruiting from a moist, moss-covered stream embankment under tanoak on a dry day (no rain for over a week). 20 or so fruitbodies scattered singly across 5' x 8' area. They presented as small dark gray pins, but turned out to be brown under magnification. About 10-15mm tall with heads/caps 1-2mm. Wiry and flexible, bouncing back quickly after bending and releasing.
These were growing in a crevice near the bottom entrance to the Bear Gulch Caves. Any ideas, @flygrl67 , @euproserpinus, @rjadams55 , @danielgeorge?
I was shocked to see around a dozen of these diminutive mushrooms coming up through the oak duff in late June. Their spores are bright yellow and although there was some bruising to the gills, the stipes did not change color even an hour after being cut in half. The stipes are striate and yellow along their length. I tried keying them out using "California Mushrooms: The comprehensive identification guide" but I kept coming up with some kind of Xerocomellus, but the lack of red on the stipe seems to eliminate that genus.
Section vaginatae, in soil under Quercus arizonica
Cap- deep purple,smooth, fine striations on margin. Stalk-fragile, 6.5 cm x 1 cm. Note dingy yellow at base of stalk.
Distinct umbo and unusually wavy stipe? Or is that just me.
Edit: it's because it wasnt a serrulata lmao
Growing in a lawn. Broken gills produce a white latex
Amazingly pink.
Russula brevipes and Hypomyces lactofoulum close by. 3 separate fruitings within 5 m circle, 2 fruitings under decaying wood log
Habitat; in duff under coastal live oak.
Pilius: light brownish. 10 cm diameter. Has sheen & texture of A. phalloides seen in this proximity, in previous observations. They were greener but fresher.
Gills: free, white, close.
Stipe: 1.5 cm x 10 cm. Exotic pattern. Hollow near pilius. Bulbous base with thick volva.
Annulus: superior, skirtlike, withered, appressed (from aging?)
Not my freshest specimen from this location.
Found in loose soil, in an embankment (a small berm). Possibly attached to a dead root (likely a mahogany). It was detached from sandy soil easily without breakage. Young mahogany trees and Sig-id vines near by. Purple cap and same color on stipe. No attached veil present. Torn white fragments of veil around the limb. No scales, no warts (although, if this a young specimen, warts may develop as it matures). Gill attachment: free. Specimen size: about 10-12mm. Specimens found in area: 2.
"aZ13" nom prov. (a Lepidella)
http://www.amanitaceae.org/?Amanita+sp-AZ13