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Brown cap russula

edge of landslide

fabled seagrape- associated Clavulina truffles courtesy of Kurt Miller. Tastes pleasent, like a mild tuber... or like roasted and salted macadamia nuts, but less sweet.

bamboo

on bamboo. unsure of ID

on slash pine

Abundant in area on cypress. wetland area right off 557. Flesh soft. pilepellis dry. Stipipellis dry and reddish in some sections. only seen on cypress, and seen multiple times on that date.

Growing on mulch piece
No UV reaction

Only find these growing on young sabal palms and mainly towards the base or lower section

On dead Pinus elliottii, clearly bitter taste

About 80% certain on ID

Growing in hydric hammock, moist but no recent rains, koh slight brown reaction, dna ITS sample

On oak

Maybe G. penetrans? Growing on fallen pine trunk. Rusty orange spore print. Orange cap, gills, and orange-yellow stalk. Gills attached. Did not notice any scaliness on cap.

Growing amid pine needles.

Spores: N=10
measuring
5.64 x 5.36
5.65 x 5.19
5.26 x 5.08
5.67 x 4.72
5.26 x 4.27
4.25 x 4.00
4.78 x 4.12
5.09 x 4.55
5.30 x 4.67
5.74 x 4.98

Mid Michigan. Conocybe or pholiotina sp. perhaps.

Rusty spore print
Found growing on small rotting branch in a wet patch of ferns after a week of heavy rains

Small yellow mushroom with brown flecks growing on log.

ex of quercus twig

On Hyophorbe verschaffeltii

Cap 2cm, white with brown fibers and red liquid droplets (enzymes?); Gills white, free from stem; stipe 3cm, white, covered in droplets, distinct ring; on very rotten stick

Along the “Minnow Trail” just upstream of a giant waterfall.

This fugus has a bell shaped (nippled) cap, its darker in center, and has a lighter stipe. The hymenium is gilled and the overall mushroom is very small.