lostcoastmike's Identifications

Growing on tanoak wood in mixed forest. Small astipitate cups, irregularly wavy in age, grey but often with tan-yellow center.

Spreading across ground and on wood. Pores soft, shallow, and irregular. Spores hyaline, non-amyloid, 5.4-6.2 X 3.1 (4), no cystidia or clamps. Collected by Else Vellinga, at mycoblitz.

Single fruiting beneath evergreen huckleberry and Douglas fir.
Pink cast hymenium.
Harvested for culinary use.

Seen at the MSSF fungus fair and sampled for DNA barcoding. Mostly from the bay area but some are from Mendocino county.

CA24-00879
Noticed under Monterey pine, shore pine, Sitka spruce, redwood, fir and alder trees.

CM24-07018
Fruiting abundantly under redwood, alder, tan oak and fir trees in moist moss. Very humid environment at about 2000 feet.
Sandstone and deep duff and moss on steep hillside.

FC

Dark blue, bumpy club fungi,
No UV,
Near Huckleberry/sitka spruce

Firm jelly texture. On Populus bark submerged in stream