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:
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.
Fruiting on an Acer macrophyllum leaf(note dense mycelium). https://mushroomobserver.org/433576?q=1UoRA
This lichen was on a coniferous twig alongside a heavily foot trafficked trail on the Twin Falls trail near North Bend, WA. The whole thallus was about 7.6 cm (3 in) in length and 3.04 cm (1.2 in) wide. The upper thallus was a light green color and the lower portion varied from cream-tan to dark brown/black. The surface of the lichen thallus was relatively smooth, but had some rougher portions.
Habitat: Mixed conifer forest; overstory dominant
Weather: 58F; Cloudy and sprinkling
Elevation: 830 ft AMSL
Substrate: Rock/Soil over rock.
Ecosystem: Riparian zone adjacent conifer dominant old growth and open deciduous dominant areas.
Associations: Hepatic spp, Bryophyte spp, Peltigera spp, Pilophorus acicularis, Polypodium glycyrrhiza
Description: Foliose thallus with single/broad lobes. Upper surface bright green. Lower surface white with distinct brown veins bearing cephalodia. Apothecia dark brown/black.
Notes: Indeed the cutest little peltigera!
Growing on a fallen branch under a dominantly coniferous overstory
Growing on a fallen branch under a dominantly coniferous overstory
Found on a fallen Acer macrophyllum branch in a mixed coniferous-deciduous forest patch
This lichen is growing on an Alder branch. This is the only red tinged lichen that I found in the area.
Found in hardwood and conifer mixed forest
Thallus partially hollow
Growing from base of Acer macrophyllum, in a logged clearing. Mostly vegetation on the hillside is medium-sized shrubs. East facing slope. Rainy day, after several consecutive rainy days.
I think this is either A. tabescens or A. solidipes/ostoyea. The specimens I collected all still had their partial veils attached, which were very fluffy/cottony. They look like they won't have a persistent ring or ring-zone, but I can't be sure because I'm not too familiar with Armillaria.
Habitat: Mature mixed coniferous forest. Specimen growing on leaning trunk of Pseudotsuga menziesii. Weather: some clouds, some blue sky, 40 F, snowed the day before. Apothecia abundant on this specimen; no isidia or soredia observed