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Inocybe lanuginosaObserver
laynedrewDescription
Completely brown
Brown cap, stipe, gills and spores
Skinny stem
Slightly shaggy cap
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Western Black Elfin Saddle (Helvella vespertina)Observer
laynedrewDescription
Found right off of road
Tall with weird shaped cap and stem
Dark white stem
Almost black cap
Found as a pair in grass
Light gray flesh
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Observer
laynedrewDescription
100 feet in to trail behind fallen tree,
Coral fungi
Just sitting above ground in forest litter
Reddish orange stem with white and yellow with pinkish orange branches with bright yellow tips
Tall, long branches/stems
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Toothed Jelly Fungus (Pseudohydnum gelatinosum)Observer
laynedrewDescription
Jelly fungus
Whitish/transparent flabby rubber-like fruit body,
Tongue shaped
Small teeth on underside
Completely almost see through
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Jewelled Amanita (Amanita junquillea)Observer
laynedrewDescription
Alone in dirt and forest litter
Weird veil still attached on top in spots
Yellow top with white spots
White volva, gills and stipe
Slightly slimy, smooth cap
Flesh white/yellow
Solid stem, powdered at apex
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Common Gilled Mushrooms and Allies (Order Agaricales)Observer
laynedrewDescription
Rusty brown spore print
Orange cap with yellowish ring
Light orange gills
Orangish stem flesh
Off white stem
Cap dry, smooth, bell shaped
Straight margin, even contours
Stem flexnous, viscid, smooth, fibrous consistency and solid texture
No veil
Adnate attachment to stem
Found only one growing sideways off side of hill surrounded by moss
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Western Woodland Lepidella (Amanita silvicola)Observer
laynedrewDescription
Growing in dirt, under leaves in groups
White cap, stipe, volva and gills
Looks yellow behind gills
Cap greasy, smooth and fleshy
Stem flesh feels stuffed
Cottony veil with large white volva
Powdery stem
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Questionable Stropharia (Stropharia ambigua)Observer
laynedrewDescription
White, almost transparent cap
with orange center
Dark brown gills and spores
Growing in forest liter
Slimy cap smooth with straight margin, fleshy
No veil
Equal, solid skinny stem
Gills free from stem
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Order PezizalesObserver
laynedrewDescription
Growing on roots of a hemlock
Pair of them in dirt with long roots
Orange cup like shape
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Genus XerocomellusObserver
laynedrewDescription
Found alone
Dark brown cap bruises black
Orange/yellow spongy pore layer bruises black
Stem deep red
Flesh white bruises dark red
Volva white/yellow
Semi dotted cap
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Olive Shaggy Parasol (Chlorophyllum olivieri)Observer
laynedrewDescription
White stipe, growing sporadically under a tree
Dark white cap, brown center on top of cap
Shaggy cap
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Short-stemmed Russula (Russula brevipes)Observer
laynedrewDescription
Very short white mushroom
Hiding underneath forest liter at the edge of bushes at the beginning of the organic farm trail
Cap, stipe, gills and spores are all white
Very meaty
Wide spread gills
Known as
"the most boring mushroom"
Surprisingly elusive being how big they get
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King Bolete (Boletus edulis)Observer
laynedrewDescription
Light brown cap
Lighter brown stipe
Yellowish green Pore layer
Growing alone, 50 feet from ocean inlet in very tall grass
Large mushroom
