Describe sub-meter scale details of the spot where you found the specimens (e.g. "in sphagnum next to a decomposing log, at the base of a large tanoak tree, in litter 2m W of the trail, under exterior bark of well rotted log"

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Observations specifying this field

Observation Description of Microhabitat

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Observer

rudydiaz

Date

April 2024

Description

Odor at first like oysters and fruit, then developing strong odor of bacon after split specimen was left sweating in tackle box.

Under manzantia, near chamise.

Chaparral, buried soil and duff under Arctostaphylos, near chamise.

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Observer

rudydiaz

Date

April 2024
Chaparral, in soil and duff under Arctostaphylos and chamise.

Photos / Sounds

What

Brittlegills (Genus Russula)

Observer

fresno_mycology

Date

April 21, 2024 05:36 PM PDT
Growing on trailside just before angel falls.

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Observer

rudydiaz

Date

April 2024

Description

On Geopora:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/208652805

Spores dark brown (speckled in transmitted light), smooth, broadly fusiform to citriform; walls 1.5 µm thick;
(23.5) 24.1 - 27.4 (28.8) × (13.1) 13.5 - 16.3 (17.4) µm
Q = (1.5) 1.6 - 1.9 (2) ; N = 31
Me = 25.9 × 14.8 µm ; Qe = 1.8.

On interior of truffle-like Geopora sp. foung in chaparral, in soil and duff under Arctostaphylos and chamise.

Photos / Sounds

What

Juniper Disco (Pithya cupressina)

Observer

stucumber

Date

March 2024
On western juniper leaf litter

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What

Truffles (Genus Tuber)

Observer

rudydiaz

Date

April 2024

Description

Odor oil paints.
Asci 1 to 2-spored, balloon-shaped, (91.6) 91.63 - 110.2 × (64.6) 64.61 - 75.37 (75.4) µm (Me = 98.6 × 70.3 µm). Ascospores globose with honeycomb ornamentation composed of ridges 4.5 µm thick;
(36.7) 38.9 - 43.4 (45.7) × (33.3) 35.4 - 42.6 (44.8) µm;
Q = 1 - 1.1 ; Me = 41.7 × 39.6 µm ; Qe = 1.1.

Buried in soil and duff under Arctostaphylos and chamise.

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Observer

mandymushii

Date

April 20, 2024 05:17 PM PDT

Description

Orange crust growing on downed redwood,
No UV,
Indistinct KOH,
Cleaner odor,
Near hemlock

Growing trailside

Photos / Sounds

Observer

mandymushii

Date

April 20, 2024 11:42 AM PDT

Description

Found by Connor Dooley,
Fuzzy fungi with tall stipe,
Growing on root(fern?),
Near redwood

Growing next to road

Photos / Sounds

What

Earthstars (Genus Geastrum)

Observer

mandymushii

Date

April 20, 2024 12:02 PM PDT

Description

Found by Jordan Gates,
Brown peridium,
White gleba,
Cleaner odor,
No UV,
Growing trailside,
Near redwood

Growing next to trail

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Observer

mandymushii

Date

April 20, 2024 12:12 PM PDT

Description

Found by Jordan Gates,
Faded pink cap,
White stipe,
Near redwood

Growing off trail

Photos / Sounds

Observer

mandymushii

Date

April 20, 2024 12:35 PM PDT

Description

Found by Jordan Gates,
Dark rounded top,
Yellow to white stipe,
Parasitizing truffle,
Growing trailside near bay laurel and redwood

Growing trailside

Photos / Sounds

What

Bonnets (Genus Mycena)

Observer

mandymushii

Date

April 20, 2024 02:58 PM PDT

Description

Umbonate cap,
Reddish brown latex,
Marginate gills,
No odor,
White to yellow UV on gills,
Growing next to parking spot,
Near redwood

Growing near parking area

Photos / Sounds

What

Pinewood Gingertail (Xeromphalina campanella)

Observer

mandymushii

Date

April 20, 2024 03:06 PM PDT

Description

Orange, depressed cap with light margin,
Creamy, decurrent gills,
Stipe darkens towards base,
Fuzzy foot,
On downed wood near parking spot,
Near redwood

Growing next to parking area

Photos / Sounds

Observer

mandymushii

Date

April 20, 2024 03:11 PM PDT

Description

Found by Jordan Gates,
Hairy, White cup,
Growing on dead sword fern leaves,
Near redwood

Growing off trail

Photos / Sounds

Observer

mandymushii

Date

April 20, 2024 03:31 PM PDT

Description

Found by Leah Bendlin,
Tiny, stipitate,orange cups,
Growing trailside,
Near Maple/tanoak/redwood

Growing trailside

Photos / Sounds

Observer

mandymushii

Date

April 20, 2024 03:40 PM PDT

Description

Polypore with yellow underside,
Smells like trash,
Growing off trail on doug fir

Growing off trail

Photos / Sounds

Observer

mandymushii

Date

April 20, 2024 03:55 PM PDT

Description

Light brown mushroom,
Indistinct odor,
Growing under downed redwood next to the road

Growing on downed redwood next to road

Photos / Sounds

Observer

mandymushii

Date

April 20, 2024 04:05 PM PDT

Description

Found by Sidnee Ober-Singleton ,
Rusty orange, dentate crust,
Growing on rotting Fomitopsis on the ground,
No UV,
Near hemlock/redwood

Growing on rotting Fomitopsis on the found next to trail

Photos / Sounds

What

Lichen Agaric (Lichenomphalia ericetorum)

Observer

mandymushii

Date

April 20, 2024 04:21 PM PDT

Description

Tan to creamy fungi,
Decurrent gills,
Growing on deadwood trailside,
Near redwood/hemlock

Growing trailside

Photos / Sounds

What

Shelf Fungi (Order Polyporales)

Observer

mandymushii

Date

April 20, 2024 04:48 PM PDT

Description

Ochre brown with mustard margin,
No UV,
Stains dark,
Smells like cinnamon red hot candy/matsutake,
Black KOH,
On downed redwood

Growing trailside

Photos / Sounds

Observer

mandymushii

Date

April 20, 2024 05:05 PM PDT

Description

Found by Jordan Gates,
White coral growing on trailside,
White UV,
Indistinct odor/taste,
Near redwood

Growing trailside

Photos / Sounds

What

Deceivers (Genus Laccaria)

Observer

mandymushii

Date

April 21, 2024 12:02 PM PDT

Description

Pale orange fungi growing in mossy sand trailside,
Indistinct odor,
Near shore pine/sitka spruce

Growing trailside

Photos / Sounds

Observer

mandymushii

Date

April 21, 2024 12:22 PM PDT

Description

Found by Connor Dooley,
Parasitized beetle larvae,
Tall, dark stroma sticking out of sand,
Growing trailside in Dunes

Growing below the sand trailside

Photos / Sounds

What

Chanterelles (Genus Cantharellus)

Observer

mandymushii

Date

April 21, 2024 02:06 PM PDT

Description

Golden fungi,
Veiny underside,
Growing off trail in mossy soil,
Near sitka spruce

Growing off trail

Photos / Sounds

Observer

mandymushii

Date

April 21, 2024 03:57 PM PDT

Description

Found by Sidnee Ober-Singleton,
Brown top,
Orange stipe with chevron at base,
Growing near trail at base of redwood

Growing near trail at base of redwood

Photos / Sounds

What

Trooping Crumble Cap (Coprinellus disseminatus)

Observer

mandymushii

Date

April 21, 2024 05:04 PM PDT

Description

Found by Christy Horseley,
Small troops of campanulate fungi,
Light brown to gray, striate cap with darkened center,
Pale stipe with fuzzy base,
White UV on stipe,
Growing in mossy, sandy soil wall on side of road,
Near alder/cascara

Growing on soil wall next to old road by the river

Photos / Sounds

What

Wine-colored Agaricus (Agaricus subrutilescens)

Date

April 21, 2024 07:02 PM PDT
At base of redwood, among Oxalis oregana, near dirt parking lot

Photos / Sounds

Date

April 21, 2024 06:37 PM PDT
In duff on side of trail, near vaccinium, doug fir, redwood

Photos / Sounds

What

Antler and Spindle Fungi (Family Clavariaceae)

Date

April 21, 2024 06:05 PM PDT
Mossy, eroding, slope on side of trail

Photos / Sounds

What

Corona Cup (Plectania melastoma)

Date

April 21, 2024 05:32 PM PDT
Mossy, eroding, slope on side of trail
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