Doug fir cone. Seemed like some smaller ascos growing off the larger Ciboria - curious if this is common, and if it's the same species.
Growing underwater in the river at a depth of about a third of a meter. Location was almost the same as a sighting from the previous week
Spores: (10.2) 10.3 - 11.5 (12.1) × (6.1) 6.3 - 6.65 (6.7) µm
Q = (1.6) 1.64 - 1.8 ; N = 9
Me = 11.1 × 6.5 µm ; Qe = 1.7
11.53 6.39
10.62 6.46
11.33 6.68
11.09 6.51
10.21 6.14
10.33 6.43
11.54 6.27
10.83 6.55
12.13 6.65
This is a species with a spotty distribution in Seattle (and it is rare in SW BC, its range barely crossing north into Canada), and one I never observed before in Lincoln Park in my 24 years of spending time there almost every day. I long thought it had appropriate habitat there, and "belonged" there. It was what I have called a "missing native species" from the location in question.
While looking for Nemophila parviflora in a nearby park where I had previously seen a lot of Nemophila (but finding none that day), I found a couple of large patches of Hydrophyllum tenuipes - Pacific Waterleaf with plants in both spots growing into the trail, where they were being trampled by both the introduced Homo sapiens and their introduced Canis familiaris.
I moved a couple out of the edge of the trail, to a beautiful mossy spot in Lincoln Park, that had just had Trailing Blackberry - Rubus ursinus removed, where I both hope these Pacific Waterleaf plants will have a better chance of survival, and where I hope they will have a chance of starting a new population of this "missing native species". Some days after transplanting they are already looking great, and one leaf, that I thought I might have broken, was also again looking great!
Hard to see, but some tiny teeth on the edge of these hairy leaves distinguish this species from related Madia species.
I've long wanted to get this species started both in Seattle again, as it was on my 1999 list of Seattle's lost ("extirpated") species, this one last recorded in Seattle by the herbaria in 1889 (Alki Point), or 1892 (location not clear) and the flower looked beautiful. I moved these 2 plants to Lincoln Park from the South Puget Sound area a few months ago, and chose a promising mossy forest edge for them, and they were both looking great, until a presumed Eastern Cottontail rabbit chewed one down to the top of the root, but the smaller rosette is what grew back after the Leporine (rabbit caused) setback! I tried the species in the park once before, and that plant didn't get far before dying, but I'm optimistic with these 2!
Clinging to the body of a Burying beetle (Nicrophorus vespillo), see observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/155953943
Likely same one observed a month ago. On a stick next to the trail close to the parking lot. So beautiful!
On dead small branchesof hardwood, high up, gluing them to the main trunk. Also on tiny stick where it is showing an edge. Mossy woods.
Found this little guy outside, I'm keeping him for a while because of the frost. Note the dark body color, and the profile shape of the shell lead me to doubt it's a Hesperian of any sort
Photos 2 and 3 were taken in the morning when it was close to 0C; the first photo was taken in the evening when it was around 12C
Captured in 2018
Spores 4-4.5 x 2.2-3 µm.
On a huge standing dead Madrone. Does not key out. Some obscure polypore. . . .
Small pores 2-3/mm.
Trametes-like, but no hair and spores are quite different.
Metamorphic talus of Pilot ridge. 1800m, black oak woodland top of ridge.
very gelatinous flesh bands, spores average 8.6 x 5.7 microns
Grows loosely attached to bark on living Quercus garryana. Hymenium lacks pores but looks finely granular probably due to very large basidia (up to 50 microns beyond rest of hymenium and long sterigmata (10-20 microns long. Spores are amyloid, roughened, thick-walled with refractive content, average 15.9 x13.8 microns. They have a small pip. Another possibility is Aleurocystidiellum. No good species match.
Parasitizing Clavulina cristata. The coral looks like a disfigured gray mass. Park; side of hill.
On decaying wood of Falcateria. 1.5-3mm high.
Spores
(6.5) 6.7 - 7.7 (8.4) × (6) 6.2 - 6.8 (7.4) µm
Q = 1 - 1.2 (1.4) ; N = 25
Me = 7.1 × 6.5 µm ; Qe = 1.1
Capillitium
2.2-3.0 um wide.
N = 10
Mean of 2.5
Vouchered but number not written down.
Only about 8mm high, encrusted gill edges, growing on fallen Falcateria.
Unsure of this one, ID a best guess, not a perfect fit. One young fruit growing solitary, with a branching cluster of tips. stipe brown base. Could possibly be immature Tremellodendropsis, but is not very lumpy. Under douglas fir, Tsuga heterophylla.
Small, clustered mushrooms found growing on the gnarled, seemingly burned stump ball of what appears to be one long dead and one living Madrona tree. Surrounding environment is on an island, high elevation forest of well spaced, mature conifers and thick, diverse moss blankets. Unique area. Mushroom is deep burgundy red, up to 3cm across the top. Very clean and uniform top. Stem is centrally attached, burgundy, and growing horizontally on nearly all mushrooms. Gills are closely spaced and deep burgundy as well, broadly attached/adnate. Never seen anything like this before. Last 3 photos show scraped spores from a print, put onto a dry microscope slide at 10/0.25 magnification. Spores appear ovate to slightly elliptic. @JRJFungarium
S. imbricatum or squamosus?
I can't tell the difference!
Bitter when cooked, mild when raw.
Shrub was about 18 feet (5.5 M) tall. First photo shows entire shrub. Second-fourth show from top to bottom. Fifth shows twig and leaves. It was in dense shade.
Last photo is a repeat of the first photo with an arrow added to show the highest point I could reach on the shrub while standing next to it, which was 6.75 feet high.
On both upper and lower surface of Calocedrus decurrens scales, in combination with flagging symptoms on most of the canopy. Spores cylindrical and hyaline. This tree is also affected by cedar-apple rust in the spring.
This sprouted on a rotting log following a period of warm, wet weather. Touching it caused a smoke-like cloud of spores to be emitted.
Very small. Noticed only after a larger white growth on same log caught my attention. This log was in a dried-up vernal pool. Probably had been submerged for some weeks early in the spring.
Same camera as previous observation but inside with fluorescent light.
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Originally posted to Mushroom Observer on Aug. 11, 2013.
One of 64 plants... The third photo shows some of them. This collection has been curated over the past 40+ years. Like this example, some have no record of any blooms, thus the color being indicated as unknown.