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West Coast Reishi (Ganoderma oregonense)Observer
elizabethaceaeDescription
This bracket fungi is Maroon -red and varnished (shiney. It is a bracket (shelf like growth habit). It is a polypore fungi (its underside is white and his pores where the spores exit. Top is red varnished with brown spore coating. Very beautiful. Medicinal mushroom. This is an annual fungi.
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Deceiver (Laccaria laccata)Observer
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Growing in sandy soil near the beach. The stem is vertically striate and fibrose, sometimes it can looked 'twisted'. The cap and stem are pink-skin color, gills slightly lighter.
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Violet Webcap (Cortinarius violaceus)Observer
elizabethaceaeDescription
What a purple beauty! Rusty spore deposit, Cortinareus quality. Cap deep dark purple, shaggy.
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Smoky-gilled Hypholoma (Hypholoma capnoides)Observer
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Missing LocationDescription
Growing in clusters on down wood. Cap 3cm wide, tawny yellow to cinnamon yellow. Gills grey.
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Hedgehog Mushrooms (Genus Hydnum)Observer
elizabethaceaeDescription
Growing solitary beneath conifers. Light orange-brown cap, about 6cm broad with small teeth on underside where gills would be.
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Candlesnuff Fungus (Xylaria hypoxylon)Observer
elizabethaceaeDescription
Cluster of small, club-like, black and white fungi growing on fallen branch. Black at base, white at top. Only a few have branching white tips, the others are club-shaped.
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Aniseed Funnel (Collybia odora)Observer
elizabethaceaeDescription
Nice blue-green cap , lighter stem and gills. Smells like anise when fresh, less when dry. Found beneath conifers; scattered.
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Observer
elizabethaceaeDescription
Yummy almond odor.
Yellow brown cap, creamy white thick and waxy gills ever so slightly decurrent. Found growing solo.
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Sulphur Tuft (Hypholoma fasciculare)Observer
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Found growing in clusters, circling beneath a dead conifer. Cap 2.5 cm broad, orange yellow and sulfur yellow. Gills have greenish yellow tinge. Taste bitter; poisonous.
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Truncated Club (Clavariadelphus truncatus)Observer
elizabethaceaeDescription
This club-fungi was found growing beneath conifers in forest humus. It grew scattered. Some specimens had branching form, some grew as a single club. The top of the clubs was blunt almost flattened.
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Conifer Mazegill (Gloeophyllum sepiarium)Observer
elizabethaceaeDescription
This neat fungi was found growing shelflike on a down conifer stump. It's cap was 4 cm broad, leathery, dry, and had concentric rings of dark browns with a lighter ring at the margin (new growth lighter than old). The bottom of the fungi was lined with light brown gills that darkened with age.
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Fluted Black Elfin Saddle (Helvella lacunosa [inactive])Observer
elizabethaceaeDescription
Beautiful dark grey heart shaped cap folded on top of a lighter grey stem, seemingly hollowed out in places. Stem resembles slightly opaque melted candle wax. Found growing solo.
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Fungi Including Lichens (Kingdom Fungi)Observer
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This fungi appeared emerging from forest duff, as a "mushrump", with debri on its cap. White gills, white stem, and white cap with minimal brown discoloration. This Russula was very spicy/acrid. Stem breaks cleanly like chalk- a Russula quality.
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Scaly Chanterelle (Turbinellus floccosus)Observer
elizabethaceaeDescription
Bright peach-orange cap 6 cm wide with hairy scales slightly lifted off cap.
Stem has decurrent veins, similar to that of a chanterelle but not as deep.
Not edible.
Scattered growth.
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Mushrooms, Bracket Fungi, Puffballs, and Allies (Class Agaricomycetes)Observer
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Growing on down doug fir. Nice orange color.
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Common Milkcaps (Genus Lactarius)Observer
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Delicious maple scent when dry!
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Tricholoma virgatumObserver
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Amazingly strong cucumber scent. Grey cap, white stem.
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Orange Rough-cap Tooth (Hydnellum aurantiacum)Observer
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Growing on ground beneath conifer forest.
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Witch's Hat (Hygrocybe conica)Observer
elizabethaceaeDescription
Beautiful bright red cap, shimmering yellow stem, black bruising.
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Small mushrooms growing beneath cedar forest. Have lilac and brown umbonate cap.
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Vermilion Waxcap (Hygrocybe miniata)Observer
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Beautiful bright orange caught the eye immediately.
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Zeller's Bolete (Xerocomellus zelleri)Observer
elizabethaceaeDescription
Interesting white mycelium growing at base of stem.
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Questionable Stropharia (Stropharia ambigua)Observer
elizabethaceaeDescription
Beautiful lacy margin, wipes off easily.
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Hairy Curtain Crust (Stereum hirsutum)Observer
elizabethaceaeDescription
Growing on a down alder log, next to Panellus serotinus.
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Late Oyster (Sarcomyxa serotina)Observer
elizabethaceaeDescription
Growing on down alder in clumps; shelf like.
These fungi were so beautiful, they have orange, green, grey to their caps and cream gills.
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Shellfish-scented Russula (Russula xerampelina)Observer
elizabethaceaeDescription
Very red-purple cap, stem cream at top pink at base.
Growing solo, in grass beneath conifers.
Shrimp odor, cream gills.
Mild taste.
