הזיהויים של raddisonleigh

Weather: Sunny.
Habitat: Found in a park growing on a downed Acer macrophyllum log I’m pretty sure.
Key features: Rounded clumps or pom poms of downward hanging soft, compact spines.
Flesh was very moist and thick.
Taste was mild.

Before I could finish processing finding this outer-wordly mushroom for the first time, I found it again! Crazy how quickly our eyes can be trained. This fruiting was much more robust, with stipes almost three times as long and more abundant conidial branching.

Second growth Pseudotsuga menziesii forest at the Evergreen State College with some inetrmixed Acer macrophyllum.

Plenty of Russula fruiting but none observed at the base of this cluster.