Growing on buried wood moss and needle duff. No odor or taste. Hemlock Fir forest mid elevation.
Found growing on conifer wood. Gills fluorescent. Spores reddish brown. Mildly bitter. Largest diameter cap is 7 cm. My first choice for this is Gymnopilus luteus. I am taking G. voitkii under advice. Both of these are thought to be east coast species. My third choice is Gymnopilus ventricosus.
Mid elev 2500 ft Doug fir/ hemlock forest with sparse huckleberry understory. Dense firm but crumbly like old cauliflower. Brown stain on stipe.
Fir, cedar, alder, needle duff; after a recent hard freeze
Growing in sandy dunes in grass thatch.
Cap hygrophaneous, viscid, convex at first becoming plane-convex with incurled margin, brownish at first with white ring towards edge developing in older specimens, darker towards the center; gills white, decurrent, close, lamellae present; stipe stuffed, slightly viscid, larger towards base with slightly tapering base, brownish towards the gills and becoming white near base.
KOH nonreactive; UV reactive (context yellow, stipe yellow); odor similar to almond extract; taste indistinct; caps 2.5cm to larger x height 4.5cm to larger (I collected samples that were smaller so the size is fairly insignificant)
Extensive mycelial Matt in duff. Under Doug fir Hemlock.
cap 5.5 cm across
no odor
Elevation:2669 ft
Possible H. capreolarius
Fruiting on wood(see rotted wood attached to specimen base).
Phaeoclavulina abietina does not occur on wood and has different branching tips and coloration.
Multiforked/pointed tips staining faintly greenish.
Odor: not distinct.
Harvested a single specimen and dehydrated for herbarium collection/genetic record.
My coinciding Mushroomobserver observation below-
Hardwood, coniferous old forest, sword fern, forest undergrowth
Fruiting in a tangle of hawthorn near the quartermaster harbor. 50+ fruiting bodies. Extremely viscid all over. Caps displaying the “windows” hence “Gliophorus fenestrata” or whatever.
Caps orange-red to yellow with darker striations. lightening around cap margin. VERY stick and viscid. planar to convex. 1.5-3cm diameter
Gills adnexed - subdecurrent, creamy yellow to pink
stipes yellow and marbled. very slippery and sticky. 4.5-7cm long. 0.25-0.5cm wide.
no smell or taste at all
Small cup shaped fungi found growing on a conifer log beside the trail. Log was large and fairly decomposed. Fungi is very close in color to the wood it was growing on.
Date: 10/30/2023
Location: Aberdeen, wa
-Habitat: growing out of thicker bed of moss on fallen log under conifer trees in small group.
Physical Features/Descriptive
-Cap: conic shaped, small bright blue cap becoming lighter towards margin.
-Stipe: greyish white, covered in fine hairs
-Odor: none noted
-Gills: closely spaced, white to light grey in color.
On Tsuga heterophylla stump.
Basidiocarp: <8cm tall x <5cm wide
Spores (19): 7.75-9.0 x 4.0-5.0µm