arik's Identifications

Found in San Luis Rey Day Use Area, Palomar Mountain State Park, San Diego County, CA
Coordinates: 33.25305° N, 116.79245° W
Information: Coastal Oak habitat, mushroom found in ground at base of oak tree surrounded by rocks and buried under decaying leaves. Specimen found by itself, although many same species specimens were found within 200 ft vicinity. Spores dyed blue with Melzers, spores amyloid and oval shape. No significant smell, mild acrid taste.

During a field trip to Emerson Oaks in Temecula, California on February 10th around 10am.The weather was about 60 degrees and was partly cloudy. There was a lot of rain the current week which made the region very moist perfect for mushroom sprouting. I spotted a very fragile and bright yellow mushroom in a field of grass and with dried leaves around it growing alone. This mushroom had a very long stalk that is attached to a smaller delicate cap with free gills. The spores print is a brownish color and the spores are brown and smooth.

4th year biology student at UCR here.

This mushroom was found in the middle of the grass under oak trees, the environment was wet due to prior rain. This mushroom was very viscid when picked up. This mushroom was also found alone

The weather was about 60 degrees Fahrenheit.

Spores are a dark yellow color

small brown gilled mushrooms found growing on the ground under trees in oak forest. Brown oval spores and cystidia present. Found at Emerson Oaks Reserve in Temecula (Riverside County) California on Saturday, February 10, 2024.

I found this mushroom at the Emerson Oaks Reserve in Temecula, CA, which is in Riverside County. I collected it on February 10th in the morning around 11 am. The temperature was 59 farenheit, and the area just received multiple days of rain from an atmospheric river. It was next to a downed oak branch, in the soil, and surrounded by oak leaf litter. Smells sweetly sick.

User: Omarjalal2 - Specimen: B. flaviporus - Notes: Spore ID shows olive-colored oval spores. Cap viscid, found under an oak tree with relative solitude from all other mushrooms. Does not bruise blue and has very bright yellow pores.

Found on 1/30/2022 at 1:38 pm on the corner of Eucalyptus Drive and Picnic Hill Road at UCR. It was found under the shade of a building in front of the lawn, three feet from a Longleaf tree. The mushroom is white with brown marks on the cap almost scale-like or a burnt marshmallow. The cap is covering most of the stem and is cylindrical. It possibly might have a volva at the base. The mushroom has no annulus and the gills are white with no extension of the cap (could be a sign of immaturity and also from the dry weather because of no rain). Gills are close like book pages and free. The mushroom smells earthy and has a very bland flavor. Spore print was obtainable and produced a black color. The mushroom started deliquescing less than 24 hours from excavation. It was found alone in its habitat near asphalt. Possible identification could be an inky cap; known as Coprinus comatus (italicized), Shaggy Mane.

Date found: 2/5/2022
Location: Emerson Oak Reserve, Temecula, Riverside County,CA
Weather: Nice and sunny, highest was 69° Fahrenheit, there was an advisory for high winds of 15 to 30 mph and a low humidity of 9%

Description: Mushroom where growing on an incline manner since it was on a hill, they where hidden under dry leaf litter next to oak trees.

Description of mushroom: Smelled like bleach, had pink angular spores, the diameter of the cap is 4.2 cm, stem width is 2.5 cm and the total height of the mushroom from cap to stem is 8.7 cm. Color of cap is grey ish brown, not a viscid cap, stem was thinner at the top and became thicker towards the base as well as being a white color, gills where close almost described as crowded. The stalk itself also felt fleshy yet slightly firm.

(by Julieta Delgado) This mushroom was found on February 5, 2022, at 10:29 am at the Emerson Oaks Reserve in Temecula, Riverside County, California. The weather was about 70 degrees celsius, with 9% humidity and with a wind speed of 5mph. It was found growing near an oak tree in an oak forest on the ground under lots of tree leaf litter. This mushroom was not a solitary mushroom as it was growing in a scattered manner with others of the same species, and was very near to a few of these that were growing clumped together. In this specific area, I counted about 15 or more of this species. The mushroom cap is a grayish color and the spores are pink and the mushroom has a bleachy smell. No annulus ring or volva present. No spore print was obtained for this specific mushroom but the spores under the microscope were angular spores and the spore print should be pink. Predicted to be Entoloma Ferruginans using Mushroom Demystified by David Arora

Found mushrooms growing on UC Riverside campus behind the Student Health Center. Mushrooms were found buried under dry leaf litter, dead plant and wood debris. There was a gregarious cluster of mushrooms growing underneath the pile of dry leaves. Cap is an oval, pale honey brown color with a white fibrous stalk. Minute white granules surrounded the cap surface.

Found on February 5, 2022 in the Emerson Oaks Reserve in Temecula. This mushroom grew in a scattered manner on a somewhat open area on a hill. There were 2-3 inches of leaf litter and the soil was moist. There were trees (possibly oak) and shrubs within 50 feet.