Captive bred Allogona townsendiana eggs & hatchlings in all of their tiny pink-bodied glory.
I'm assuming the blackish spheres are a different stage of the same species, if it's something different I can split the observation.
Ascocoryne sarcoides with Trichia sp.
Small black cups growing gregariously on soil and living wood/tree roots, scenes like this punctuated the trailside throughout this locality, maybe 2-3 per mile
I think. @rambryum. Seems to be among Riccardia. On wood. Marble River Provincial Park, BC, Canada
These were scattered on our back deck, not in a pile.
3-12 I found a very that looks like the same plant.
Common under stones on Selaginella and moss covered ground, in Artemisia Salvia scrub.
https://bugguide.net/node/view/2329684
If the small knob along the mesal palp surface is the palpgenu oncophysis (last image), this would be Parateneriffia based on Mirza et al. 2023 (https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13233736).
Very fluorescent in 365 nanometer ultraviolet light
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
Likely on maple. Predominantly maple, cedar, doug fir area.
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
On Asclepias fascicularis eating aphids
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.
Interesting parasite in gills, found in sheep field near wooded margin
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
Two adults found under a downed redcedar
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.
About 1cm in length
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.
Tiny...
Moss and dirt under maple leaves in suburban yard.
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.