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Unclear exactly what kind of hypogeous fungi this is. Christian claims it smells like Halloween candy (I have a covid sense of smell so it is difficult for me to gather this data). KOH negative, UV negative, staining slightly yellow with touch. Under a large douglas fir. In a mixed redwood, Douglass fur and madrones nearby. Fluffy and light externally. Spores lemon shape, brown and warty with one oil drop in the center

Unfortunately I couldn't get the phone to pick it up, but this was VERY green in person! Almost like Gliophorus psittacinus!

Update: likely the same as https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/3553971

DNA sequence (to be added soon) was not a match to anything in Genbank. Closest matches at 92.8% were B. callistus (many) and B. psittacinus.

Grey clavarioid fungi under Sequoia sempervirens, Pseudotsuga menziesii, and Notholithocarpus densiflorus forest. Head long, smooth, grey, thickest towards apex. Stipe shinier, more fibrous-looking, a different tone of grey, long and twisted from growing up through leaf litter.

Rodent digs found throughout the area exclusively under chamise. Manzanita also present, and interior live oak within 100 feet, but digs were only under chamise. Digging revealed that the mycelial mat that truffles were found in and smelled the same dissipated with distance from chamise. Melanogaster also mixed in and more abundant. Parts of the mycelial mat smelled like Melanogaster and parts smelled like these -- distinctly of oil paint. Woodrat nest about 8 feet away.

Bobcat?/Domestic cat skeleton,
immature mushrooms at this time, will continue to monitor!
Could it be? Or is it just coincidentally growing there???

Very small Spores about 5-6um
Laccaria sp. seems possible?

This color is not a photographic artifact. This Ganoderma was blue. Compare with @leptonia's similar find in 2014 (https://mycobratpack.tumblr.com/post/100772519089/ive-got-the-blues-for-you) and another from a random Redditor (https://www.reddit.com/r/mycology/comments/vce5g5/has_anyone_seen_a_blue_reishi_before_ganoderma/). I've seen this once before in person several thousand miles away in Bolivia (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/12011445). As is often the case with such chromatically curious collections, the dried collection retains almost none of this color.

Collected during the 2019 Mycological Society of San Francisco (MSSF) Mendocino Woodlands Foray

Tiny larvae ( <.5 cm ) inside decayed wood, carrying brown orbs, occasionally depositing them. Is it a frass shield like in some Coleoptera larvae? Are they diptera larvae instead??

Bearing a striking resemblance to a slime mold.