Found under beargrass by truffle dog Rye, nearby trees include grand fir, Douglas-fir, and mountain ash. Aroma faint, mostly sweet/nutty.
Spore photos added 9/7/23
Growing among leaf litter near pine trees, fallen pine needles incorporated into fruiting body (cap, stalk, volva). Near stagnant body of water. Features pores instead of gills, no partial veil present.
hardwood. under log. no others nearby. mild taste. dark dense fuzzy scaly cap ornamentations when young.
Roughened spores, pinkish spore print, citrus smell, lost lilac color through aging.
Lepista nuda
iNaturalist Number: 191999272
Date: 11/13/2023
Collector: Ciara Chiampou
Location: At the Field and Fork Gardens on the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, FL, USA.
Notes: Fruiting in a cluster in the soil after heavy rain. Cap is wide with undulate margins and a pale pink to tan color and a deeper purple center. The surface of the fruitbody is tacky and has thick flesh. Gills are violet-tan shade and the stock is similar in color. Spores are white.
Synonyms: Clitocybe nuda
Habitat: Growing in soil in a hardwood forest.
Notes: Pileus is pale tan and white with a depressed center. Hymenium is poroid, but I would not call it decurrent as it clearly ends before the stipe. The poroid hymenium immediately led me to the Bolete family, while the large size, pale color, and depressed center led me to the Tylopilus genus. I believe that it could by Tylopilus rhoadsiae due to the size and shape of the specimen, but I could not be sure.
Polypore specimen measuring 0.3 x 1.5 cm, attached to decayed wood substrate. Has a white cap with smooth surface and teeth-like projections ressembling gills.
Specimen was found in dead wood. And as common for Trametes spp. it has a sessile, fan-shaped cap but also laterally fused and spreading across the substrate. The cap measured up to 2cm wide and 10 cm long with a sligthly zonate upper surface. Fertile surface has pores (4-5 per mm) and brownish pale color (dark brown when mature) with dark purple brownish edges.
This particular polypore has macroscopic characteristics that resemble the genus Trametes and the genus Stereum. The caps are effused-reflexed to resupinate and the upper surface is zonated and cream-colored. It was found attached to a trunk of dead wood by a narrow base. The semicircular shell-shaped caps are more lobed when compared to Trametes spp. The lower surface is whitish, turns tan when mature and has small tooth projections. Due to the age of the sample, microscopic evaluation was not performed.
It was found laterally fused and attached to wood substrate, having a fan-shape and mesuring about 2 cm wide. The upper surface is shiny and present radiate zones of yellow-orange to brownish color. The fertile surface is pale orange and smooth. Microscopically it was observed smooth, hyaline, and cylindrical spores, measuring ~7.5x3 µm. Hyphae is dimitic (generative and skeletal type with thick wall and very long), non septate and clamp conncetions are absent (Bessette et al. 2021).
These specimens are sessile caps attached to wood by a narrowed base. Fruitbody upper surface is fan-shaped, measure approximately 8 x 6 cm, is zonate and has ocre to yellowish color (more orange when mature and dried). Features are similar to S ostrea and S subtomentosum (Bessette et al. 2021).
Polipore decaying fungi with a very small semicircular cap, eccentric stalk, upper surface moist and fertile surface with pores radially aligned measuring around 3mm. In microscopic evaluation spores are oblong, measuring about 4-3µm and hyphae with clamp connections (Bessette et al. 2021).
Cap was found convex, round to flat in mature specimens, white, and sometimes covered with pale brown patches. Gills are free from the stalk, more greenish to grayish green when mature. Stem is thick, with a swollen base and white. Spore print revealed pale green to grayish color. Microscopic features exhibit elliptical, hyaline spores, measuring about 10x 7µm. Ocasionally apical germ pore can be observed. (Bessette et al. 2007)
Macroscopic features of this fungi are similar to P candolleana e P umbonata, however the specimens have more proeminent umbilicate cap compatible with P umbonata. Microscopic evaluation revelead elliptical, pale brown spores, measuring 11x5µm.
Specimens presented cap with 2-5 cm, centrally depressed, reddish to orange brown; gills are decurrent and stalk are thick (up to 2mm in diameter) and bulbous at the base. Microscopically features are compatible with description of Bessette et al. (2007, 2019), and similar to L amethystina and L laccata. Spores are globose, hyaline, with presence of little spines. Spore measurement is ~10x9 µm in diameter (Bessette et al. 2019).
Macroscopic characteristics are similar to at least 2 different species of Lactarius (L argillaceifolius and L delicatus) The cap is convex with a depressed center, sticky and pale tan, measuring around 7 cm. Gills are cream color, slightly decurrent and release a yellow latex when bruised. Stalk is central, thick and slimy. Observed spores were elliptical and hyaline, ornamented with slightly prominences. A partial reticulum mentioned by Bessette et al. (2019) can be seen in the majority of the spores.
This fungi was collected from a dead wood substrate. It has a sessile, fan-shaped cap, frequently laterally fused. The upper surface exhibit zones with various colors, and surface is waved. Fertile surface has pores (4-5 per mm) and white-cream color (Bessette et al. 2021).
NCBI/Blast 25S Large subunit ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence - 99.88% of identity and 100% query cover.
Specimen was found as a effused-reflexed cap on wood, measuring 5- 6 cm, with fan-shaped format. Upper surface is off white and azonate, although it can be white to cream when immature. Fertile surface is is poroid in immature polypores but forming conspicuous teeth up to 1.5 cm long, as observed in the collected specimens. Spore identification was not possible due sample age (Bessette et al. 2021).
NCBI Blast Large subunit ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence 100% of identity and 100% of query cover.
Amphilogia gyrosa
iNaturalist Number: 187148543
Date: 10/11/2023
Collector: Ciara Chiampou
Location: At Fifield Hall on the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, FL, USA.
Notes: Fruiting on exposed root of an oak tree. Fruiting body is very small and appears as bright red-orange pustules on the surface of the tree root.
Synonyms: Endothia gyrosa
Thick cap with deep pores & flat pore surface typical of Boletes.
Blue staining, stipe reticulation, red coloring at base. Spores fusoid & yellow-brown. Cap resembles Boletus ochraceoluteus, but pores are distinctly dissimilar from that species.
ID matching description in Mushrooms of the Gulf Coast States by Bessette, Bessette, & Lewis (2019)
Roughened spores, pinkish spore print, citrus smell, lost lilac color through aging.
PHF0004
Bolete, red cap, insect feeding, yellow pores blue staining
Poly pores and similar fungi of eastern and central North America Key B: 1,8,12,14,22,23a
Pores capitate porafices. Asci fat at apex of hymenium surface and narrows towards base. 8 spores per asci
PHF0013