Found growing on conifer wood. Gills fluorescent. Spores reddish brown. Mildly bitter. Largest diameter cap is 7 cm. My first choice for this is Gymnopilus luteus. I am taking G. voitkii under advice. Both of these are thought to be east coast species. My third choice is Gymnopilus ventricosus.
Mid elev 2500 ft Doug fir/ hemlock forest with sparse huckleberry understory. Dense firm but crumbly like old cauliflower. Brown stain on stipe.
Fir, cedar, alder, needle duff; after a recent hard freeze
Growing in sandy dunes in grass thatch.
Cap hygrophaneous, viscid, convex at first becoming plane-convex with incurled margin, brownish at first with white ring towards edge developing in older specimens, darker towards the center; gills white, decurrent, close, lamellae present; stipe stuffed, slightly viscid, larger towards base with slightly tapering base, brownish towards the gills and becoming white near base.
KOH nonreactive; UV reactive (context yellow, stipe yellow); odor similar to almond extract; taste indistinct; caps 2.5cm to larger x height 4.5cm to larger (I collected samples that were smaller so the size is fairly insignificant)
cap 5.5 cm across
no odor
Elevation:2669 ft
Possible H. capreolarius
Fruiting on wood(see rotted wood attached to specimen base).
Phaeoclavulina abietina does not occur on wood and has different branching tips and coloration.
Multiforked/pointed tips staining faintly greenish.
Odor: not distinct.
Harvested a single specimen and dehydrated for herbarium collection/genetic record.
My coinciding Mushroomobserver observation below-
Hardwood, coniferous old forest, sword fern, forest undergrowth
Fruiting in a tangle of hawthorn near the quartermaster harbor. 50+ fruiting bodies. Extremely viscid all over. Caps displaying the “windows” hence “Gliophorus fenestrata” or whatever.
Caps orange-red to yellow with darker striations. lightening around cap margin. VERY stick and viscid. planar to convex. 1.5-3cm diameter
Gills adnexed - subdecurrent, creamy yellow to pink
stipes yellow and marbled. very slippery and sticky. 4.5-7cm long. 0.25-0.5cm wide.
no smell or taste at all
Small cup shaped fungi found growing on a conifer log beside the trail. Log was large and fairly decomposed. Fungi is very close in color to the wood it was growing on.
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.