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Golden brown cap with a paler margin,
Light brown gills,
Cortina present,
Thick stipe that darkens a rusty color at base,
Tapered base,
White UV on gills/stipe,
Indistinct KOH; flouresces yellow,
Purple staining at top center of cut cap,
Indistinct odor,
No taste,
Off trail near Doug fir/sitka spruce/redwood

Found by Chris Wilkins,
Medium-sized, dark brown, umbonate cap with white margin,
Dark purple gills with cinnamon spores,
Cortina present,
Light purple, tapered stipe that yellows towards base,
No UV/odor/taste/KOH,
In mossy soil off trail,
Near sitka spruce/cascara

Annadel State Park, just off Lawndale Trail. In robust chaparral habitat under large power line system
Fruit bodies growing from white mycelial “cocoon” in soil under Adenostoma fasciculatum
Strange, cordyceps-like fungus with two sporocarps emerging from a white, mycelial "cocoon" buried underneath the surface of the soil. Sporocarps like little bulbous clips, covered din a white, cracking tissue. No in-tact insect body detected, but some spherical chitinous remains of what seems to be of insect origin were found

Found thanks to Emma Shelton’s ask for an ID on this observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/237391282

KOH = red on cap
UVF 365 = none detected
Scent = sweet
Flavor = heme / blood
Host = Alnus
Staining= blue on pores, slow
spores = 7.5 - 8.75 x 4.3 μm
54+ fruiting bodies. All within 1 m of water fruiting near exposed roots. Many with a mold infection.

This is a gastroid form of a soon to be described new species of Suillellus

Many have suggested this is near G. turbinates, and as most know Gastroboletus is polyphyletic and in process of being redistributed back to other genera.

Since this is only a single collection it may not get formally described as a form or variety, but it might...

Found in Hemlock cedar forest in mossy duff.

Taste is bitter, but doesn't linger into a peppery aftertaste.

Cap 5cm wide, green
Gills white, detached
specimen 4cm tall
stipe is 1 cm wide

Sporeprint white, spores are globose and 8um, warted, amyloid in Melzer's

No reaction on cap, stipe or gills in FeSO4 (iron salts)
A golden yellow reaction on cap and stipe from KOH.

Salt Point State Park, near Central Trail. Mixed confier/hardwood coastal forest; Sequoia sempervirens, Abies grandis, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Notholithocarpus densiflorus, Pinus muricata, Arbutus menziesii
Growing on a well rotted and de-barked Notholithocarpus densiflorus
Tiny, pea sized orange pleurotoid fungus. Laterally attached stipe with distantly spaced, subdecurrent lamellae. Pileus striate, so thin you can almost see through it. Reduced stipe covered in tiny white hairs.
No noticeable smell, taste mild

Pinus contorta dominant forest, approx. 8,000ft. Badger Flat Campground, Sierra National Forest
Growing in a bed of Polytrichum under Pinus contorta with Fragaria vesca
Pileus brown to copper, slightly umbonate, fibrous, inrolled margin in younger specimens. Lamellae rusty brown/orange, broadly attached with a sub-decurrent behavior. Stipe thin, equal, fibrous, silvery white to almost lilac in color, faint rusty cortina intact in some specimens
Taste very bitter
Smell indistinct
Reddish/brown KOH

Diminutive, light brown mushrooms growing from mossy soil in Pseudotsuga menziesii and Notholithocarpus densiflorus forest. Pileus light brown, striate. Lamellae widely attached. Stipe long and thin, both stipe and cap ornamented with fine granules.