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fruiting on road cut beneath Quercus agrifolia.

Helvella dryophilla and Peziza also emerging from the same hill side. Most of the specimens I found looked like they had already been partially eaten by some animal

flesh was lavendar in direct sunlight
no obvious scent to me but every specimen on this hill side had been eaten and within 5 minutes of it being in my office the grain moths were swarming it so it must be producing some sort of attractant the mammalian or just my nose can't detect

Microscopy:
irregular asci - ~120 um x 25 um
round spores - 12-13 um with thick wall

Directly from wood at base of redwoods Same habitat and look as http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/197367718, which was called a Cortinarius sp. Same habitat as this, http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/197367672 but looks a little different..

White mycelium, mold, or secretion from sliced and exposed bamboo roots. Roots were exposed while digging a trench next to bamboo patch. Took 3-7 days to appear. Looks like it has mold hairs on it. Maybe a mold is eating the bamboo secretion?

Found on UCSC campus in a smallish burn zone. Seemed to be fruiting only in patches that were burned. In a mixed evergreen forest consisting of redwoods, douglas-fir, madrone, huckleberry, and the occasional oak. The base of the stipe seems like it connects to clumps of clay soil underground. The soil has sparkly minerals in it. There are small nuggets of mycelium is inside the larger clumps of clay soil. No strong flavor, dries out mouth slightly, light fungal smell. White spores that powder coat caps underneath and leave rings of white spore powder on the soil beneath the cap.

This entire grass arc has these weird partially close capped Panaeolus all over. This grass was laid within the past year so this is the first summer cycle for it. Slight blue stain to base of stipe

Microscopy:
spores = 15 x 8.75 um
basidia =
clamps = present