scienceismetal's Identifications

growing on dead branch of bay laurel. moss grown into cap. classification characteristics: pink polypore. porous underside with pink cap. Woody and tough.

Distinctive cologne/cedar smell.

Bright orange and decurrent forked gills,
Spores: ellipsoid, smooth, and dextrinoid

Small white mushroom with dark yellow brown stipe. Relatively closely spaced gills Found on cone in redwood forest at site 2

On fallen conifer log, abundant. Round, creamy white to yellow cap, size variable and can be up to 5cm in diameter. Pores covered under and inside the margin of the cap.

on wood/soil, orange-red cap, rhizomorphs, red streaks on stipe, spores 11.9x6.4 um smooth, ellipsoid

zonate creamy tan / orangish pileus with white stipe, adnate/sinuate gills. latex white initially but turns yellow after oxidizing with air

Growing in well watered wood chips, nonhygroscopic rays that curve downward and curl inward. lacks stipe, pale ring around puffball in center.

Growing in a large cluster
Flaring partial veil

Decurrent gills, growing in groups on hardwood.

Found on hardwood.

Elongated gill-like pores, tomentose caps, tough and leathery texture, fan shaped, tan and grayish-white concentric zones of caps, some specimens have green algal growth, on tanoak

Beige brown scales on top of vaselike fruiting body. Fertile surface is wrinkled and ridged. Growing in mixed conifer forest.

Free gills, chocolate brown spores, yellow stain, phenolic smell

Volva, annulus, smooth greenish tinted cap, potatoish smell, growing under Quercus agrifolia

Whitish cap with brown center, gills free and close together, cylindrical white stipe, growing on decaying log.