Young specimen. Fruiting hypogeously beneath Western red cedar and Douglas fir. Most likely a young tuckahoe- all white and leathery before hardening and turning crusty brown… Herbarium specimen available in Olympia, WA.
Gleba thick, leathery. All white, with small rhizomatous filaments surrounding.
Interior-potato like, hard. Odor: pleasant, sweet, faintly fungaloid.
Temp: mid 50’s.
Elevation: Sea level.
UPDATE on 7/11/24:
Mounted dry/powdery glebal tissue/spores on a glass slide in 3% KOH.
Spores: ROUND!!!! Thick walled and roughened on exterior. Making it impossible for this collection to be Wolfiporia(Wolfiporia have distinctly cylindrical spores).
Updated my identification for this collection to Mycenastrum corium based on round roughened spores, thick leathery Peridium(flaky textured) and brown spores at maturity(not white).
Found growing amongst Ponderosa Pine, Douglas and Grand Fir
Purchased from a vendor in the Mercado de San Juan in Mexico City (stall #261). Dried and wrapped in plastic. Not
labeled.
Purchased from a vendor in the Mercado de San Juan (stand #261). Not labeled. Dried and wrapped in plastic.
Originally posted to Mushroom Observer on May 27, 2019.
Golden-backed Frog
Mushroom grown on frog body
HAY-F-002780
Micscroscopy:
spores = round, smooth, and most with 2 oil droplets per spore
asci = not amyloid tipped in melzers,
Sphagnum associated
The closest sequence in Genbank is at 82% - except for one soil fungus sequence from North Carolina that's 99.18% similar. This is likely an undescribed species or a species that has been described a long time ago but has not been sequenced.
Near oak and other hardwoods in moss in a peninsula in Ohrbach Lake
I got quite a surprise when I looked at these odd "sporodochia" and they started to wriggle around on my slide after a few minutes!
picture 2-3 show individual immediately after mounting them in water still in their deshydrated form
Picture 8 show the corona (which was ciliate, albeit this trait did not show up on pictures)
Picture 9 show a corona and toe from another individual and picture 10 show the mastax.
Underside of decaying hardwood
White rot
5-6 ppmm
Odor not distinctive
Koh : black
Bruised dark red/brownish
Spores slightly allentoid 1.25-2.5 x 3.75-4.3
Skeletal hyphae thick walled, 4um thick
Clamps present
White rot on deciduous wood.
No Koh reaction
Spores IKI- 4.38-5.6 x 2.5 um
2-3 ppmm
Readily separable from substrate
No odor
large very pale gymn with a very pleasant smell, was associated with conifers
Exuberant fruiting from a large downed log.