San Vicente Redwoods- Mixed hardwood/conifer forest that burned in the 2020 CZU fire
Growing from thick duff under Quercus agrifolia, Arbutus menziesii and Pseudotsuga menziesii. Found on the side of the forest that burned at low intensity in the 2020 CZU due to cultural fire
Pileus pale yellow with patchy, fragile, thin veil remnants. Margin decorated with tufts of white VR tissue. Stipe white, equal, finely flocculose. Volva small, adhered to stipe. Lamellae white, broadly attached, finely serrate
Smell indsitinct
Taste slightly floral
KOH yellow on cap and stipe
Lamellae fluoresce green

4th photo shows UV. under tan oak and redwoods next to a stream, growing solitarily from a muddy/silty slope in the shade, last photo shows light green flesh.

this has been my target genus for months sooo happy

spores (poorly) mounted in ~0.5% KOH... I was working with what I had...

cf. fragrant odor, cap with appressed fibrils, white basal mycelium. growing in wood chips.

3rd observation i've made this week where it's the iNat observation of a species in IL (+ another with 3 records, none in northern IL)!

Only found near redwoods in burned patches. Thousands of them. Stringy stipe, non-attached gills, have a "root" like redwood rooters, Dirty & dark brown/blackish caps. Pure white stipe. Minimal bruising, but develops into a dirty white/brown colored stipe in age.

are photos 1 and 2 the same species but different mating types? they were on the same leaf just a few cm away from each other, but no hairs on the 1st one.

also this is different than my previous observation of this species (about 100ft away)

Growing under redwoods along stream. Pileus very slimy, red-orange, striate towards the margin. Lamellae narrowly attached, thick, faces light orange to pale lemon yellow at the margins. Stipe dry, smooth, yellow, nattered.

strong cucumber odor
stipe: white flesh, ~ 7cm long, red fibrils on surface
pileus: brownish/orange, very viscid, hygrophanous, 2.2 cm
white gills, some white rhizomorphs at base, growing solitarily in hardwood and conifer forest

added to 2024 West Coast Mycoblitz with permission

my friend broke the cap off before i took the first photo, so what is pictured is how i placed the cap back on...

Genus Hygrocybe
maybe Hygrocybe Latissima, based on the lighting of color toward the cap margin, uplifted/wavy margin with age, scruffy stipe, stature and lack of a viscid cap.

• orange margin around pileus, red in the center. not very viscid

• robust stature
  -largely spaced gills

• textured stipe
• growing solitary