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myco-houndDescription
Strong mushroom smell. Growing on decaying big leaf maple. Yellowish coloring on cap and gills.
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Psilocybe azurescensObserver
myco-houndDescription
Collector: Christian Jacks Johnson
Coll. #: F8.JAX.11.06.22 (iNaturalist)
Pic. #: F8-a,b,c,d,e
Date: 11-06-22
Time: 2:53 pm
Scientific Name: Psilocybe azurescen
Family: Hymenogastraceae
Location:
Weather: Mostly sunny, breezy
Habitat: Coastal pines mixing with dunes about 100 meters from the coastline (depending on tide).
Plant Association:
- Trees
- Lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta)
- Vegetation
- Scotchbroom (Cytisus scoparius)
- Coastal Sedge (Carex exilis)
Substrate: Fruits attached to decaying coastal sedge (Carex exilis).
Spore Print: purple/brown
Morphology/Description: Specimens are a range of sizes and maturities. Growing scattered amidst the sedge. Small staure; fleshy.
- Height of entire specimens: 3.5-11 cm
- Stem length: 2-9.5 cm
- Width of cap: 0.5-7 cm
- Height of cap at center: 0.5-1.5 cm
- Width of stem: From 0.3 cm at apex to 0.8 cm at base
Stipe: Beige with white; with bluing where bruised; base has strong rhizomorphs; slight veil remnants with brown spore dusting. Gills: Close, unequal, attached, slight purple tint. Cap: Light caramel color; umbonate with nipple when young, becoming planar with age but retaining nipple, resembles flying saucer; margin with slight bluing. Odor: farinaceous. Taste: bitter/farinaceous. Spores: light brown and slightly wrinkly.
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Genus FomitopsisObserver
myco-houndDescription
This may be Fomitopsis pinicola, but the size and immaturity make it hard to distinguish. Also I have seen this same polypore emerge at this same spot before, on this aging yellow plum tree.
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Milk-white Toothed Polypore (Irpex lacteus)Observer
myco-houndDescription
Collector: Christian Jacks Johnson
Coll. #: F9.JAX.10.27.22 (iNaturalist)
Pic. #: F9-a,b,c,
Date: 11-18-22
Time: 5:05 pm
Scientific Name: Irpex lacteus
Family: Meruliaceae
Location:
Lat: 47.095 Long: -122.84
Weather: Overcast, dry, cool, still
Habitat: Mixed conifer and deciduous second growth forest. Found 2 meters off of a trail about 20 meters due east from the corner or Sunset Dr. NW and Marine Dr. NW.
Plant Association:
- Trees
- Heartnut (Juglans ailantifolia)
- Vegetation
- Nandina (Nandina domestica)
- Azaleus (Rhododendron…)
- Dahlias
- Paeonia
Substrate: Growing on a locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) stump.
Spore Print: Unattainable
Morphology/Description: White with slight yellow and pink corticioid hymenium with irregular pores growing as a crust with a bumpy characteristic. About 90 cm by 45 cm.
I avoided smelling or tasting because I learned it is infectious. All parts stain brownish/orange with KOH.
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Arnold's Parmotrema Lichen (Parmotrema arnoldii)Observer
myco-houndDescription
Collector: Christian Jacks Johnson
Coll. #: L18.JAX.11.17.22
Date: 11-17-22
Scientific Name: Parmotrema arnoldii
Family: Parmeliaceae
Location:
Lat: 46.895 Long: -123.029
Elevation: 53 m
Weather: Sunny, still
Habitat: Oak savanna along the Black River surrounded by glacial prairie in the Glacial Heritage site.
Plant Association:
- Trees
- Oregon White Oak (Quercus garryana)
- Vegetation
- Bracken Fern (Pteridium aquilinum)
- Pacific Blackberry (Rubus ursinus)
- Snow Berry (Symphoricarpus albus)
Substrate: Thallus suberect, partially attached to small oak branch on the forest floor.
Morphology/Description: Green Algal Foliose: Thallus suberect, partially attached; rhizines moderately abundant; medium to large, 2 x 3.5 cm; gray/white with dark chocolate brown to black margins, stratified, not umbilicate; usnic acid presence not obvious; lobes lobes broadly rounded, not hollow, > 1.5 mm wide, margins with black cilia; lower surface not veined and smooth, not mottled; soralia rounded, marginal on short side lobes. Medulla UV+ blue-white, K-.
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Mushrooms, Bracket Fungi, Puffballs, and Allies (Class Agaricomycetes)Observer
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Pixie Cup and Reindeer Lichens (Genus Cladonia)Observer
myco-houndDescription
L16
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Bay Polypore (Picipes badius)Observer
myco-houndDescription
Growing firmly attached to decaying scotch room where the coastal lodgepole pines mix with sand dunes. Sedge, sword fern and evergreen huckleberry are all within 1 meter.
It is unclear if the specimens are different maturities or just different sizes.
Weather is overcast.
Coll#: F8.JAX.11.6.22
Pic#: F8a,b,c,d,e
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Pixie Cup and Reindeer Lichens (Genus Cladonia)Observer
myco-houndDescription
L14
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Pixie Cup and Reindeer Lichens (Genus Cladonia)Observer
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L13
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Pixie Cup and Reindeer Lichens (Genus Cladonia)Observer
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L12
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Basidiomycete Fungi (Phylum Basidiomycota)Observer
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Western Jumbo Gym (Gymnopilus ventricosus)Observer
myco-houndDescription
Collection #: F5.JAX.10.27.22
Scientific Name: Gymnopilus ventricosus
Family: Hymenogastraceae
Weather: Overcast, dry, cool, still
Habitat: Mixed conifer and deciduous second growth forest. Found 2 meters off of a trail about 20 meters due east from the corner or Sunset Dr. NW and Marine Dr. NW.
Plant Association:
- Trees
- Western Red Cedar (Thuja plicata)
- Western Hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla)
- Douglas Fir (Pseudotsuga menzeinsii)
- Big Leaf Maple (Acer macrophyllum)
- Vegetation
- Sword Fern (Polystichum munitum)
- Red Huckleberry (Vacinium parvifolium)
Substrate: Fruiting from a Douglas fir snag and cohabitating with at least two other polypore sporophores on the same snag.
Spore Print: Orange/rusty brown
Morphology/Description: Growing in clusters around the snag. Multiple life cycle stages present. The fruits are very large, and from the very young to mature measurements range from:
- Height of entire specimens: 6-26 cm
Stipe: Pale orange with darker orange fibers and annulus; younger specimens with clavate base, older specimens not as pronounced; becoming hollow with age. Gills: Closely attached, unequal with close spacing and even edges. Cap: Convex and flattening with age; margin is straight becoming slightly wavy with age; Surface is dry, dull and smooth; margin is entire and even becoming slightly undulating in older specimens; fleshy and firm texture; same orange color throughout. Odor: farinaceous. Taste: bitter/farinaceous. Spores: Orange and slightly wrinkled
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Rock Shield Lichens (Genus Xanthoparmelia)Observer
myco-houndDescription
Crustose lichen: possibly Xanthoria based on the small lobes and heavy concentration of apothecia.
Habitat: Growing on landscaping rocks at the edge of a sidewalk in residential Portland, OR.
Weather/Conditions: Sunny/Very dry
Key Features Observed: Lobes of thallus appressed to rock. Cup shaped apothecia have chestnut brown interior and mint green exterior with margins that curl into the cup.
Collection #: L10
Picture #s: L10 a,b,c
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Brown-eyed Sunshine Lichen (Vulpicida canadensis)Observer
myco-houndDescription
Vulpicida seems likely based on the bright yellow foliose thallus with large brown apothecia.
Habitat: Growing on a fallen branch with other lichens amidst ponderosa pine and mountain hemlock
Weather/Conditions: Sunny/Very dry
Key Features Observed:
Collection #: L9
Picture #s: L9 a,b
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Woolly Foam (Stereocaulon tomentosum)Observer
myco-houndDescription
Collector: Christian Jacks Johnson
Coll. #: L8.JAX.10.13.22
Pic #: L8 a,b,c,d,e,f
Date: 10-13-22
Scientific Name: Stereocaulon tomentosum
Family: Stereocaulaceae
Location:
Lat: 45.9389 Long: -121.7561
Elevation: 950 m
Weather: Sunny, still
Habitat: Mountainous mixed conifer forest on old lava beds. SW of Mt. Adams, Jefferson County, Washington State.
Plant Association:
- Trees
- Ponderosa Pine (Pinus ponderosa)
- Engleman Spruce (Picea pungens)
- Vegetation
- Bear grass (Xerophyllum tenax)
Substrate: Thallus growing amidst moss on rocks over old lava beds.
Morphology/Description: Thallus fruticose, loosely attached to moss/humus layer, grey/blue/green with repeatedly branched stalks, lumpy with minute cauliflower-like outgrowths (phyllocladia), somewhat erect but decumbent and forming dorsiventral mats; cortex present, tometum thick and wooly; cephalodia nearly inconspicous; apothecia lateral and terminal, up to 1 mm; medulla K+Y, KC+ Orangish, P-
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Concentric Pelt Lichen (Peltigera elisabethae)Observer
myco-houndDescription
Collector: Christian Jacks Johnson
Coll. #: L7.JAX.10.13.22
Pic #: L7 a
Date: 10-13-22
Scientific Name: Peltigera elizabethae
Family: Peltigeraceae
Location:
Lat: 45.9389 Long: -121.7561
Elevation: 950 m
Weather: Sunny, still
Habitat: Mountainous mixed conifer forest on old lava beds. Trout Lake Wilderness Area: SW of Mt. Adams, Jefferson County, Washington State.
Plant Association:
- Trees
- Ponderosa Pine (Pinus ponderosa)
- Engleman Spruce (Picea pungens)
- Vegetation
- Bear grass (Xerophyllum tenax)
Substrate: Thallus growing on rocks over old lava beds.
Morphology/Description: Stratified foliose cyanolichen: Thallus broadly attached, not umbilicate, upper surface glabrous, gray/salmon color, lower surface with veins indistinct and diffused, lower cortex absent; dorsiventral lobes; lobules present along margins; soredia absent
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Gray Reindeer Lichen (Cladonia rangiferina)Observer
myco-houndDescription
Collector: Christian Jacks Johnson
Coll. #: L6.JAX.10.13.22
Pic #: L6 a,b,c,d,e,f
Date: 10-13-22
Scientific Name: Cladonia rangiferina
Family: Cladoniaceae
Location:
Lat: 45.9389 Long: -121.7561
Elevation: 950 m
Weather: Sunny, still
Habitat: Mountainous mixed conifer forest on old lava beds. Trout Lake Wilderness Area: SW of Mt. Adams, Jefferson County, Washington State.
Plant Association:
- Trees
- Ponderosa Pine (Pinus ponderosa)
- Engleman Spruce (Picea pungens)
- Vegetation
- Bear grass (Xerophyllum tenax)
Substrate: Thallus growing amidst moss and duff on rocks over old lava beds.
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Western Wand Lichen (Cladonia verruculosa)Observer
myco-houndDescription
Collector: Christian Jacks Johnson
Coll. #: L5.JAX.10.13.22
Pic #: L5 a,b,c,d,e,f,g
Date: 10-13-22
Scientific Name: Cladonia verruculosa
Family: Cladoniaceae
Location:
Lat: 45.9389 Long: -121.7561
Elevation: 950 m
Weather: Sunny, still
Habitat: Mountainous mixed conifer forest on old lava beds. Trout Lake Wilderness Area: SW of Mt. Adams, Jefferson County, Washington State.
Plant Association:
- Trees
- Ponderosa Pine (Pinus ponderosa)
- Engleman Spruce (Picea pungens)
- Vegetation
- Bear grass (Xerophyllum tenax)
Substrate: Thallus growing amidst moss, pine needles and duff on rocks over old lava beds.
