Growing under Quercus agrifolia in a coastal canyon approximately 1 mile inland from the ocean
A Stereum - not sure which one.
Burned wood from old forest fire.
Log is in purple creek.
I am not sure it is a Ascomycota.
Found in coastal conifer/hardwood mixed forest, Salt Point State Park, Stump Beach Trail
Growing directly from leaves of Notholithocarpus densiflorus, fruiting by the thousands on just about every Notholithocarpus densiflorus leaf I could see!
Tiny mushroom with thin brown stipe emerging directly from Notholithocarpus densiflorus leaf. Woven through leaf were many thin brown rhizomorphs. Cap white to off white, wrinkled at margin, lamellae white
Taste mild
No KOH
Small white capped fungi with yellow stipe with a white apex, growing out of sitka spruce cone next to trail,
Near sitka spruce,
Blue UV on stipe apex/gills,
Indistinct odor
Bohemia Ecological Preserve- mixed hardwood/conifer forest with scattered grasslands on serpentine vein, adjacent to Duvoul Creek
Found growing on very well decomposed (conifer?) wood under an Arctostaphylos bakeri on the edge of grassland
White to off-white poroid resupinate fungus, pores irregular
Taste slightly sour
Smell indistinct
KOH yellow/brownish
Bohemia Ecological Preserve- mixed hardwood/conifer forest with scattered grasslands on serpentine vein, adjacent to Duvoul Creek
Growing on dead nub of Heteromeles arbutifolia perched on a rocky outcropping on side of trail
White to cream to yellowish crust with small lumps throughout. Firmly adhered to substrate and cracking in some places
Taste mild
Smell indistinct
KOH indistinct
Bohemia Ecological Preserve- mixed hardwood/conifer forest with scattered grasslands on serpentine vein, adjacent to Duvoul Creek
Found scattered amongst other organic matter and leaf litter on wet, mossy earth on the bank of Duvoul Creek.
Black, hexagonal/square/splotchy apothecia in epidermal layer of leaf, forming a multi-colored mosaic pattern across leafs surface with bold zones of inhibition. I believe these are Valley oak leaves (?) but I couldn't make out a nearby host tree
Fruiting mostly under Monterey pines.
Cluster of 100 plus tiny specimens near base of a fallen old growth Douglas-fir surrounded by dense moss.