Size: pileus 1mm-2.3cm, stipes 1cm-1.3cm. Odor: Pleasant. Taste: Mildly bitter. UV: Flecks on pileus and margin fluoresce bright yellow, shown in photos. KOH: Neg.
Echinodontium ballouii wasn't seen for 100 years until Larry Millman found it in an Atlantic White Cedar swamp. Larry took me to the site, (which I can't say where it is) and we found about a dozen of these again 4 years after the first visit.
Site 1, fire severity blue (low). Burnt sporocarp from before the Lookout Fire.
UV green on gills Ohia
Growing in mixed redwood forest. Pileus greasy-tacky, pink, conical with a splitting-ruffled margin. Lamellae narrowly attached, creamy light pink. Stipe white, greasy, splitting into fibers.
Stout and thick white mushroom found in pine litter/soil substrate in an island of an urban parking lot. Trees on island coniferous. First discovered a while ago in egg forms, covered with debris and continually returned to reach maturity. Only discovered in one area of one of the lot islands, growing in one patch of spaced individuals, all out of egg forms. One individual finally mature enough to observe, but may still be not fully developed. Likelihood of damage led me to pick this one now. Only around 6 inches tall but very thick and heavy. Stem is white and breaks in chips, strong white annulus present right under cap. Top of cap is white, just under 5 inches across, and scaled slightly grey/light tan, currently convex with peculiar concave geometry present in some areas, similar to Amanita muscaria cap geometry. Same light tan coloration near base. Stem is about an inch in diameter and very bulbous at bottom, with more tanned scales near base. Stem isn’t hollow. Gills are also white, cannot tell state of attachment to stalk. Smells slightly funky.
Growing in a fire ring on ashes, soil, and charcoal.
Puffball-esque with a small opening that emits clouds of what appear to be white spores (pic 6).
UV light yellow (greenish?) especially on the ‘foot’; KOH not tested; odor indistinct; taste not recorded; size 6-9mm diameter, 5-6mm tall
Small gasteroid, pinkish at first with a small white, fuzzy base differentiated by a ring, appearing secotioid at first then becoming more spherical, with a small pointed ostiole appearing at the tip, becoming brown above the ring in age.
Spores ~3.5 μm in diameter, spherical to subspherical, warty/verrucose (I think), containing one oil droplet that is placed offcenter.
Microscopy done in KOH at 400x (first two pics) last pic at 100x..
up to 1mm diam.
Substrate: leaf of Clusia lechlerii
Habitat: Montane to high-montane, humid, secondary mountain forests
Ecoregion: Bolivian Yungas (NT0105)
Collectors: D. Newman & F. Saavedra
Collection #: DSN.2012.060
BDC-0088-23
Growing from wood, Hibiscus tiliaceus dominant forest.
KOH not tested; UV reactive at tips (blue); odor indistinct; taste not tested; size 2-5.5cm x 1-2mm.
BDC-0095-23
Growing from horse dung in grass (Axonopus compressus, Paspalum conjugatum).
KOH no reaction; UV no reaction; odor anise-like; taste sour/farinaceous; cap 1-2cm; height 3cm-14cm.
Notes: Gill edges white, mottled. Cap with bloom. Longitudinally striated stipe that spirals.
BDC-0112-23
Growing from wood, Kukui and Falcataria in the area.
KOH no reaction; UV not tested; odor bleachy; taste indistinct; cap 6mm; height 3cm