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What

Bonnets (Genus Mycena)

Observer

angelique_k

Date

February 25, 2024 05:00 PM PST

Description

Stipe 'snaps' when bent. Things that were missed first time around - Need to verify substrate (wood or soil?), and get better shots of stipe/attachment, smells. Note white spored (photo 2) amyloid rxn for spores (photo 3), UV glows blue (photo 4), ellipsoid spores, long pointed cystidia (photo 5-6, 1 div=1um) odd attachment of spores - 1/2 way up? - to basidia (photo 7-8, photo 7, 1 div=1 um, photo 8 1 div = 10 um)

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What

Turkey-Tail (Trametes versicolor)

Observer

angelique_k

Date

February 22, 2024 11:02 AM PST

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What

Ascomycete Fungi (Phylum Ascomycota)

Observer

angelique_k

Date

February 13, 2024 12:34 PM PST

Description

On pollen embedded in cone sap from pollen cone of Atlas cedar - Photo 1 - conidial chains? Note that these ran out from pollen surface. Photo 2 Conidia (?) Photo 3 - Biofilm of very dark black cells, near hyphae - definitely patterned but I do not recognize. Yellow/brown rounded pollen. Photo 6 resin turns yellow in KOH.

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Observer

angelique_k

Date

February 7, 2024 10:27 AM PST

Description

Below Cedrus, Broken twig found on the ground - could have blown here from nearby trees? Photo 3 - erumpent fruiting bodies in lactic acid. In Photo 7 - Fruiting body 550um across - imperfectly round, very firm and difficult to section. I let it dry right out before adding lactic acid. Photo 6 - xsection of fruiting body shows hollow concavity within. Photo 8 - Allantoid to Cylindrical-Ellipsoid conidiospores, Photo 10 - Will measure shortly. Could not find any septate spores here. Note pleurogenous condial development (conidia popping off the side of the conidiophore see photo 6 and 9) Compare to higher quality observation here https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/112918758

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Observer

angelique_k

Date

February 7, 2024 10:14 AM PST

Description

Duplicate observation, for purposes of adding micro photos

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What

Red Thread (Laetisaria fuciformis)

Observer

angelique_k

Date

February 7, 2024 10:20 AM PST

Description

Laetisaria fuciformis identified nearby - this is more of a large clump of a corticoid fruiting body. See key end of this article:
Three species are parasitic on grass leaves [L. culmigena (R. K. Webster and D. A. Reid) Diederich, Lawrey and Ghobad-Nejhad, L. fuciformis (Berk.) Burds., and L. roseipellis (Stalpers and Loer.) Diederich, Lawrey and Ghobad-Nejhad]

  1. Clamps totally absent…………………………L. fuciformis
  2. Clamps present at least on some septa……………………9
  3. Basidia with four sterigmata, basidiospores 9–12 × 5–6 μm……………‥…………………………L. roseipellis
  4. Basidia with two sterigmata, basidiospores 13–16 × 7–9.5 μm…………‥….,°………………………L. culmigena
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8425454/

Photo 9: (9-11.5)x(7.5-8)

Looks like this https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/100609180 to me - lack of clamp connections. So L. fuciformis it is.

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What

Fairy Ring Marasmius (Marasmius oreades)

Observer

angelique_k

Date

February 7, 2024 10:24 AM PST

Description

Near European Holly
Maybe same as https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/198672656

For comparison: http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/99925162
(Fairy ring mushroom - verified by Andy) - looks quite different. KOH spore and lamella photos coming.
Will analyze.

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What

Cedars (Genus Cedrus)

Observer

angelique_k

Date

February 7, 2024 10:38 AM PST

Description

Note the extent of the woodpecker/sapsucker holes in the trunk. An Anna's hummingbird was using these to suck sap from the tree (never seen that before)

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What

Cedars (Genus Cedrus)

Observer

angelique_k

Date

February 7, 2024 10:42 AM PST

Description

? Atlas cedar?

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What

Slime Molds (Phylum Mycetozoa)

Observer

angelique_k

Date

February 7, 2024 10:50 AM PST

Description

Will look at more closely later. On wood chip pile

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What

Hairy Curtain Crust (Stereum hirsutum)

Observer

angelique_k

Date

January 7, 2024 01:48 PM PST

Description

This one also on oak, same area, but no teeth, black in KOH. Slight reddening but no bleeding.

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Observer

angelique_k

Date

January 7, 2024 05:54 PM PST

Description

On Laetiporus

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What

Powdered Speckled Shield Lichen (Punctelia jeckeri)

Observer

angelique_k

Date

January 7, 2024 01:45 PM PST

Description

More unhealthy looking - orange patches, patches that have turbed black. North facing, on the heavily trafficked side. On oak

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What

Powdered Speckled Shield Lichen (Punctelia jeckeri)

Observer

angelique_k

Date

January 7, 2024 01:43 PM PST

Description

Much darker colours on side away from road, facing south. Deserves the 'most like kale' award. Could be Parmelia hygrophila (granular isidia, Granular circles mid leaf - slightly orange color scattered here and there - not sure if that is the leaf itself?)

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What

Common Chickweed (Stellaria media)

Observer

angelique_k

Date

January 7, 2024 01:34 PM PST

Description

Uncertain, since no flowers yet. Growing from moss on Oak tree. Looks like flowers might come soon!

Photos / Sounds

Observer

angelique_k

Date

January 7, 2024 05:51 PM PST

Description

Note overlapping layers, algae developing on top. Fruiting body crumbles easily with handling. The grain of the hyphae in cross-section reminds me of chicken. Rove beetles love it. Growing on hard to identify stump below Doug fir. No smell.

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What

Scurfy Twiglet (Tubaria furfuracea)

Observer

angelique_k

Date

January 7, 2024 06:34 PM PST

Description

In grass, near Garry oak, hygrophanous.

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What

Shelf Fungi (Order Polyporales)

Observer

angelique_k

Date

January 4, 2024 02:41 PM PST

Description

Ex Quercus garryana. No bleeding, no smell, black line in context point to Cerrena unicolor. I have seen S. ochraceoflavum on small Garry oak twigs in the same spot: http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/38624565
and S. hirsutum as well.

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What

Conifer Mazegill (Gloeophyllum sepiarium)

Observer

angelique_k

Date

January 4, 2024 02:10 PM PST

Description

On a 'railroad tie' garden border

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What

Eastern Grey Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)

Observer

angelique_k

Date

December 31, 2023 01:24 PM PST

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Observer

angelique_k

Date

December 31, 2023 01:27 PM PST

Description

? Pluteus cervinus. Under oak in grass - photo 5 with KOH

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What

Fiber Caps (Genus Inocybe)

Observer

angelique_k

Date

December 31, 2023 01:45 PM PST

Description

Under oak, spermatic smell, slimy stipe at the bottom.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11557-021-01712-w

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What

Moss Bells (Genus Galerina)

Observer

angelique_k

Date

December 31, 2023 01:50 PM PST

Description

Under garry oak, right next to Inocybe, in grass, smells a little like an inocybe on cutting

Photos / Sounds

Observer

angelique_k

Date

December 31, 2023 02:01 PM PST

Description

Thick, lush, mat with Arrhenia

Fungi

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What

Fungi Including Lichens (Kingdom Fungi)

Observer

angelique_k

Date

December 31, 2023 01:57 PM PST

Description

Amazing smell. Large one is Overpowering lilac floral smell, and the younger one is floral and yet like gasoline. 3.5-9 cm cap, 4.5 - 7 cm stipe - extremely yellowed/old Tricholoma sulphureum matches the intense lilac/hyacinth smell description. Colours are all wrong but could be due to age? Note widely spaced gills and lack of notch...Microscopy to come. Hyaline spores.

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What

Small Moss Oysterling (Arrhenia retiruga)

Observer

angelique_k

Date

December 31, 2023 02:04 PM PST

Description

From AI - Will voucher. Growing on a very lovely moss garden at Camosun: Please see similar fruiting body and microscopy here https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/190860055 Compare with Photo 14 - 'gill' trama with palisade of basidia - 'Gills' remind me more of very shallow, indistinct cross-gills rather than lamellae - bulbous (capitate) 1div=1um - some with four basidiospores still attached (photo 16). See photo 7 showing little clusters of 4 spores glittering in a line from the attachment point. Photo 9 in KOH. Three distinct layers to the hymenium - photo 9, 12. Photo 15 - looks like algal or bryophyte cell surrounded/encased in hyphae. See entry in MRC.

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What

Orange-Yellow Rusts (Genus Puccinia)

Observer

angelique_k

Date

December 23, 2023 11:23 AM PST

Description

From algorithm. Unfortunately, I am having some difficulty ID-ing the plant this is on. (Imported bush) As the rust spps. name usually varies with host I am not sure. Note the jelly fungi fruitbody covers all the stomata under the leaf. photo 1 is of one of those fruitbodies.

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What

Longlegged Sac Spiders (Genus Cheiracanthium)

Observer

angelique_k

Date

December 23, 2023 11:16 AM PST

Description

From the algorithm. Also saw orange jelly fungi blocking the leaf stomata near the spider.

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What

Silky Pinkgill (Entoloma sericeum)

Observer

angelique_k

Date

December 11, 2023 01:16 PM PST

Description

Very old, poor quality. They were about 10 cm wide.

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What

Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus)

Observer

angelique_k

Date

December 17, 2023 02:50 PM PST

Description

Very open to suggestion

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