Tuber? Found in garden bed next to house just to the right of the garden hose.
Under madrone wood in redwood dominated forest, k orange only in yellow areas of frb
Unclear exactly what kind of hypogeous fungi this is. Christian claims it smells like Halloween candy (I have a covid sense of smell so it is difficult for me to gather this data). KOH negative, UV negative, staining slightly yellow with touch. Under a large douglas fir. In a mixed redwood, Douglass fur and madrones nearby. Fluffy and light externally. Spores lemon shape, brown and warty with one oil drop in the center
This is one of the most common native cyprinid species caught in mid-water trawls by the USFWS's Delta Juvenile Fish Monitoring Program.
growing on weathered olive seed on ground under ornamental olive trees
Female Vanduzee's grasshopper ovipositing on Chimineas Ranch, California
To paraphrase @sea-kangaroo, I propose we name this the Stab-nose Kitten Fly.
Charcoal Bee Fly, Anthrax oedipus, Family Bombyliidae, Order Diptera. Documented at the Reyes Peak area in Los Padres National Forest, Ventura County, California, USA.
Orange cap and yellow pruinose stipe mushrooms growing on incense cedar leaves creekside,
No UV/odor,
Brown KOH
Tiny (1mm) pale yellow to orange ascocarps growing on hard chunk of oak wood, probably from Q. kelloggii. Not strongly stipitate, cups dwarfed and obscured by the proportionally extremely long white hairs. UV+ blue/white.
On Adenostoma fasciculare branches that were killed back in a fire, plant resprouting from its base.
White mushroom growing out of redwood duff,
Decurrent gills,
Hairy cap margin,
White mycelium,
Brown spored,
Sweetish eraser odor,
Eraser texture,
Strong yellow UV rxn on stipe/interior flesh/gills,
Indistinct taste,
No KOH rxn
Growing on pitch of Hesperocyparis sargentii in serpentine barren. Ascocarp orange, gumdrop-shaped, miniscule
Unfortunately I couldn't get the phone to pick it up, but this was VERY green in person! Almost like Gliophorus psittacinus!
Update: likely the same as https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/3553971
DNA sequence (to be added soon) was not a match to anything in Genbank. Closest matches at 92.8% were B. callistus (many) and B. psittacinus.
Substrate: old Populus trichocarpa log.
Reference: Koukol, Ondřej. (2016). Myriococcum revisited: a revision of an overlooked fungal genus. Plant Systematics and Evolution. 302. 10.1007/s00606-016-1310-x.
Was delighted to find this fishless (and newtless!) little pond full of fairy shrimp and other crustaceans. Clearly a lot of pig action nearby, but probably no cows. Very unlike most cow ponds around.
Grey clavarioid fungi under Sequoia sempervirens, Pseudotsuga menziesii, and Notholithocarpus densiflorus forest. Head long, smooth, grey, thickest towards apex. Stipe shinier, more fibrous-looking, a different tone of grey, long and twisted from growing up through leaf litter.
Collected from coastal dune scrub via beat sheet on Malva assurgentiflora ssp. glabra. Images by Leah C. Makler.
Rodent digs found throughout the area exclusively under chamise. Manzanita also present, and interior live oak within 100 feet, but digs were only under chamise. Digging revealed that the mycelial mat that truffles were found in and smelled the same dissipated with distance from chamise. Melanogaster also mixed in and more abundant. Parts of the mycelial mat smelled like Melanogaster and parts smelled like these -- distinctly of oil paint. Woodrat nest about 8 feet away.
Brown fruitbodies with umbonate cap, scurfy stipe and annulus,
Growing on deadwood
Mixed chaparral. Under scrub oak.
Cap fibrillose, cream to light brown at center. Stipe pallid, caulocystidia along full length; bulbous emarginate; no bruising.
Cap cream, convex to plane. Gills clitocyboid. Young specimens with vellipellis. Odor farinaceous. Growing on dead live oak.
Uploaded on behalf of the collector, Kym Brennan
Small, fragile, 10cm tall. In leaf mould in heavy shade, lowland spring-fed monsoon forest, on drier part towards margin.
This is a normal gilled mushroom that has a very thin cap flesh, which splits radially (between the gills). Further drying lifts and twists the gill-segments into the flower shape in the image. The type specimen from Vanauatu had the same form on all fruitbodies, but the author was unsure whether this was an oddity, or the normal condition. The find of this Australian specimen shows that it is the norm, but it would be great to find young fruitbodies to understand exactly of the final form develops – at what point in development does it depart from a mushroom shape?
The species is Hausknechtia floriformis, a monotypic genus only described in 2020, with a single species described (by Anton Hausknecht) in 2003, previously only known from Vanuatu. I have been on the lookout for it, great to know it occurs in Australia too.
A link to the genus description: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11557-020-01606-3
A link to the original species description: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjwh767wJD0AhWQXisKHV56AnkQFnoECAgQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zobodat.at%2Fpdf%2FOestZPilz_12_0031-0040.pdf&usg=AOvVaw2rG4jlSDVwwBUmwAkpRYGM
Bobcat?/Domestic cat skeleton,
immature mushrooms at this time, will continue to monitor!
Could it be? Or is it just coincidentally growing there???
Very small Spores about 5-6um
Laccaria sp. seems possible?
This color is not a photographic artifact. This Ganoderma was blue. Compare with @leptonia's similar find in 2014 (https://mycobratpack.tumblr.com/post/100772519089/ive-got-the-blues-for-you) and another from a random Redditor (https://www.reddit.com/r/mycology/comments/vce5g5/has_anyone_seen_a_blue_reishi_before_ganoderma/). I've seen this once before in person several thousand miles away in Bolivia (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/12011445). As is often the case with such chromatically curious collections, the dried collection retains almost none of this color.
Collected during the 2019 Mycological Society of San Francisco (MSSF) Mendocino Woodlands Foray
Substrate = Cupressus sargentii needles under bark on the ground
Tanoak associated, red KOH on cap
Tiny larvae ( <.5 cm ) inside decayed wood, carrying brown orbs, occasionally depositing them. Is it a frass shield like in some Coleoptera larvae? Are they diptera larvae instead??
Bearing a striking resemblance to a slime mold.
Grey clavarioid fungus growing from poor mossy soil with Geoglossum and Clavaria. Stipe opaquely nattered, head with a less fibrous, more uniformly grey look.
On fallen oak, likely Quercus wislizeni but hard to tell. Being eaten by some sort of large larvae. Unclear if coming from a tuber, but larvae were in the wood at the point of attachment.