Observations by elizabethyori

Grey, overcast day. Found in the backyard garden on 74ave NE Kirkland growing in clumps on hummus and wood chip mulch. Under mature Douglas Fir and rhodies. Largest cap collected was 11.5cm in diameter, 12inches tall and stem was 2in wide uniformly from cap to base. Cap is convex, white-buff with a grey spot in the center, turning darker grey brown with age. Moveable ring on stem 2/3way up. Cap is scaly and very viscous in rain. Gills are free, crowded, broad and brown to buff-pink-salmon. Stem is pithy, white inside. No noticed staining or swelling of stem at base. Spores are chocolate brown in color.

Cloudy, grey, overcast. Growing in a tight group all over a dead snag, believed to be larch or pine or fir? Located in a partial clearing under several Douglas firs. Cap is broad, bright yellow to orange and covered with a highly viscous brown/rust-colored goo. Cap has scales. Largest cap collected measures nearly 6cm across. Stem is hollow and yellow with scales on the bottom 2/3; ~1/2cm wide at base. Gills are attached and light yellow and fade to a light yellow/salmon color. Gills covered by a partial veil when young. Gills are close and adenate. Spores are brown.

Cloudy, grey overcast with scattered showers. Single, solitary specimen growing on maple/madrona blowdown underneath other madrona trees, near wild apple. 7 cm tall, cap is ~1.5 cm wide, stem is <1/2cm wide at apex to >1/2 cm wide at base. Stem is striated and somewhat mottled and pale lavender in color near cap darkening to dusky lavender at the base. Stem is hollow with an orangey pith inside. Cap is convex with a "double hump" and a slight dimple in the middle. Cap is velvety and beautiful indigo/purple. Gills are attached and subdistant and lighter purple than cap.

Overcast, rainy, cloudy. Growing in clusters in larger numbers on dead fir under a mature Doug fir. Cap is creamy-white aging to buffish, with a wavy margin on the older/larger ones. Cap edge is slightly involuted on younger ones. Spores are white. Stalk is lateral and not seen from above. Gills are large, decurrent and white but turn creamy with age. Largest cap gathered was 10cm in diameter smallest 1cm.

Overcast, raining. Found on trail on Bastyr U campus. Growing in a clump on a dead big-leaf maple branch on the ground. Edge is wavy, and top is white to off-white. Top is fillamentous, yellowish with scales (maybe scales?). Gills on underside are white to buff and unequal. NO stem. Spores are brown. Attached to log on one side (off center). Smallest collected was 1cm in diameter; largest was 4.5cm.

LBM (little brown mushroom). Cap is dark brown with veins/gills seen through. Gills are wide set, tan/grey near the cap turning to white at the bottom edge. Cap is 2.5cm wide. Stem is 2mm wide and 5.5cm long. Some gills are longer than others. Found growing in herb bed in hummus along side of Tussilago. Grown scattered throughout bed/ somewhat solitary.

Also known as "chicken of the woods". This particular specimen was found growing on and old cherry tree. It may actually be a subspecies, as conifericola grows predominately on conifers in the Pacific NW. These fungi had an opportunistic fungus growing on some of them (the bluish fuzz in the photos). Grows in clumps.

Found in Bastyr garden, growing on wood chips in the pathway. Day was cloudy/overcast. Mushroom as bright rust orange cap. Slender white stem that has a veil remenant and turns rust orange at the base. Unattached buff-colored gills. Stem is pithy in the center. Grows in clumps. Found at 430pm near the gazebo in the Bastyr garden.