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found in a grassy woodchip area. similar to Galerina nana. slightly different coloring. Has 2-spored basidia. Lots of pleurocystidia.
These mushrooms were found at the Lawrence Hall of Science in wood chips after a light rain. Chip cherries characteristically grow in wood chip or under pine trees. Chip cherries have a red/orange cap and pale stalk that stains dark orange at the base with age (as shown in picture 3). Furthermore, veil fragments can be seen on edge of their caps, which is visualized in the pictures above.
I identified this as Candolleomyces candolleanus because it has the distinctive features of a young Candolleomyces candolleanus. It has a tan, conical cap which is about 1.5 inches wide which is typical for these young mushrooms. It’s cap margin is also irregular and asymmetrical all around. It has a purple/brown spore print and a white stalk that is about 2.5 inches tall which is an identifying feature of Candolleomyces candolleanus. I found it in a grassy area and due to it fruiting in the fall is another reason I identified this mushroom as Candolleomyces candolleanus.
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Order: Agoricales
Genus: Candolleomyces
Species: C. candolleanus
Immature clathrus. Found buried under woodchips.
found in a grassy woodchip area. similar to Galerina nana. slightly different coloring. Has 2-spored basidia. Lots of pleurocystidia.
I identified this mushroom as Xerocomellus dryophilus because I found it growing near live oak. It also has a pink/brown cap with cracks and a yellow under cap which led me to further believe that it was Xerocomellus dryophilus.
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Order: Boletales
Genus: Xerocomellus
Species: X. dryophilus
Inrolled margin/saprobic ecology/all-yellow palette/smooth stipe/staining/slight red discoloration/offset stipe all suggest B. sphaerocephalus, though quite uncommon. Growing in wood chips and pine needles. Regular mushroomy taste and odor.
Note--further research indicates B. sphaerocephalus may actually parasitize P. schweinitzii. I've never seen it in this exact location, but its ecology certainly fits the area
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Eurotiomycetes
Order: Eurotiales
Family: Trichocomaceae
Genus: Penicillium
Species: P. purpurogenum
Collected from Genetics and Plant Biology Building lab's air. Since it turns the media red, so it should be Penicillium purpurogenum that produce red pigment.
From oak tree on Centennial Drive by the UC Botanical Garden 9/4/22. Cultured as oak leaf endophyte 9/7/22. Transferred to PDA plate 9/12/22. Identified as Cladosporium because it grows as greenish-black color, reverse is mostly black, spores are different sizes, has septa, tree-like branching of conidiophores, but chains of spores are very delicate -- hard to prep microscope imagery of conidia.
Found in leaf litter under an oak tree. The last image is a second fruiting body coming up next to the bigger mushroom.
Purplish/black inside. Spores are round and somewhat spiny. Found on dirt/mossy area near a tree and by a pathway.
Collected from an RBA plate of an air sample in ASUC Student Union. Species determined from location of source.
Small discolored solitary mushroom sitting under a rock next to a bit of moss. The mushroom is not very high off the ground and I cannot see the gills under the cap but we'll take pictures under the Microscope. Around a lot of rocks rocks on a patch of grass on the uc Berkeley campus. identifed as areolatum due to the globose, thick walled spiny dark spores.
Found at Sagehen Field Station. Found growing on dead tree, likely a conifer based on other trees in the surrounding area. Appeared to be old and desiccated. A colony of spiders were living in the layers of the fungi.
For sure genus Rhizopus, species most likely stolonifer!
(Going to argue here why it's NOT oryzae)
hyphae have no septa
black spores borne in a sac
rapid growth
complex + branched rhizoids (stolons!)
sporangiophores exceed 1mm in height
air-isolated! so likely not oryzae, which is typically used in food fermenting and grows at high temp (45C)
stolonifer tends to grow on overripe fruit (which was definitely present in my apartment from which this isolate was taken) and grows at 36C ish
sporangia diameter roughly 150 micrometers, sporangiophore length 1.6 mm
For sure genus Rhizopus, species most likely stolonifer!
(Going to argue here why it's NOT oryzae)
hyphae have no septa
black spores borne in a sac
rapid growth
complex + branched rhizoids (stolons!)
sporangiophores exceed 1mm in height
air-isolated! so likely not oryzae, which is typically used in food fermenting and grows at high temp (45C)
stolonifer tends to grow on overripe fruit (which was definitely present in my apartment from which this isolate was taken) and grows at 36C ish
sporangia diameter roughly 150 micrometers, sporangiophore length 1.6 mm
Stains yellow
Not confident about this ID… growing in a watered lawn under an ornamental birch tree
Collected right most cap
Clathrus ruber found near Moffitt Library and Memorial Pool. About five fruiting bodies observed in the area!
found on a stump, stained reddish-black with KOH (last picture)