gatorswampmartian's Identifications

Found on 12/2/23 at 2:30pm 49°F cold, cloudy but dry has been raining a lot. Cut down decaying tree that fell over the LBA trail. On the cut edge found the small cluster of polypores. White pore underside with blood red and almost magenta red also on the under pore side reaching up the margins to the cap. The cap is dark chocolaty brown black and looks like tree bark. Sessile absent stem. Not super adhered on since young and wet. Plant surrounding is Salal and licorice ferns, mosses and grasses, with a few deciduous and coniferous trees nearby.

Weather: cloudy, 43 degrees F.
Twin Creek Trail in Tolmie State Park. Mixed forest.
Growing on a dead wood, under red alder.
No odor or taste. Bruises darker purple-brown, bleeds dark red when cut.
Size: cap: 2 cm across, stem: 8 cm tall, 0.2 cm wide.
Clustered.
Gills pinkish, narrowly attached.

Date: 10/30/2023

Location: Aberdeen, wa

-Habitat: growing out of thicker bed of moss on fallen log under conifer trees in small group.

Physical Features/Descriptive

-Cap: conic shaped, small bright blue cap becoming lighter towards margin.

-Stipe: greyish white, covered in fine hairs

-Odor: none noted

-Gills: closely spaced, white to light grey in color.

Small 8th to 1/4 in cap, yellowing stem. Yellowing in center of cap. Growing out of mixed composition soil,.
Environment, understory, moss.Pine cones and alderleafs duff, sword fern, alder, cedar, big leaf maple, Douglas fur.

Pholiota. Scaly or bristly orange (cre’mbrule), orange scaly stipe, on white. Smells almost like smoke, burnt rubber or cream. Gilled mushroom growing on wood. Gills are notched. Slippery, mucusy cap.
Local ecolosystem. Maples cedars and alder near by, moss, ferns. On side of trail. Smell edit: almond rica. Dark brown bruising on older specimens.

This mushroom was found singular growing from the soil covered in maple leaves. Witha yellowish to white appendiculate cap thats wet and slippery.
Cap: Smooth viscid and slimy yellow convex cap that ubonate, appendiculate margins.
Gills: adnate, decurrent and unequal gills that are gray to purple
Stem: floccose, Flexuous and bulbous.
Height: 15cm
Cap: 7cm
Vegetation: Growing by Cedar, maple and fir, ferns and buttercups.
Weather:Cloudy

This white and brown mushroom was found under cedar trees growing from cedar duff bruising orange when damaged.
Cap: White and brown ovoid cap with darker brown center, shaggy-fibrillose and fibrillose or floccose margin. Bruises orange when damaged.
Gills: Membranous veil, gills are white and free bruises orange when damaged.
Stem: white and splits like string cheese, cortinate/webby in middle, marginate base, bruises brown/orange when damaged.
Height: 12cm
Cap: 3cm
Vegetation: Growing under cedar in cedar duff.
Weather:Cloudy

Weather: cold
Substrate: needle and leaf duff. Dirt.
Habitat: partial to full shade, just off the trail. Douglas fir and alder overstory. Oregon grape, moss. And salal near.
Identification: white spores.

Found on 12/2/23 at 2:30pm 49°F cold, cloudy but dry has been raining a lot. Cut down decaying tree that fell over the LBA trail. On the cut edge found the small cluster of polypores. White pore underside with blood red and almost magenta red also on the under pore side reaching up the margins to the cap. The cap is dark chocolaty brown black and looks like tree bark. Sessile absent stem. Not super adhered on since young and wet. Plant surrounding is Salal and licorice ferns, mosses and grasses, with a few deciduous and coniferous trees nearby.

12/2/23 2:00 49°F cold, cloudy and dry. Found next to edge of trail at LBA park growing on a stick.
Growing near lady ferns, foxglove, trailing blackberries, and found some small Dacrymyces chrysospermus about 3 feet away on fallen trees cut edge. Cap is white with light pink to light brown coloring and you can see slight striations on margins. Has a lateral stem that is fused to tree branch. Small cluster of them on this branch not sure the wood type. Has some short uneven gills but not too crowded. Very cold slimy feeling cap.

Weather-56°F and cloudy

Habitat- Local park

Substrate- Tsuga heterophylla logs and stumps

Key Features- branching, white fruit body, many branches from a rooting base, re-branching and teeth hanging in clumps

Weather- 62°F, 9mph winds, partly cloudy

Habitat- Thjua plicata dominated area of forest, also Polystichum munitum

Key Features- Fungi resembling coral growth, long, slender, straight and cylindrical, pale yellow in color, leathery feeling flesh

Weather- 50°F and partly sunny
Habitat- Nisqually State Park mixed forest
Substrate- growing out of the ground in mixed forest 
Key features- black cap, irregularly lobed, wrinkled on top, stipe with deep longitudinal ridges