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Growing from soil organic matter in a saturated area close to a culvert just downhill from road in the 2021 Caldor fire burn scar, Eldorado NF.
Undescribed Psilocybe species, ample blue bruising along stipe

Location approximate.

This was abundant, and seen by many folks in its vegetative stage- an expansive pink fuzz which engulfed duff.
Fertile surface observed here, microscopy to be added.
Thin, relatively easy to remove from it's fruiting surface.

KOH turned cherry red and then to reddish black.
Microscopy showed very small allantoid spores, free floating yeasts living on the underside, and much oily material emitted when mounted in KOH. Basidia observed. Photos to come of that micro.

Tiny brown mushroom growing from red ultramafic clay soil in a roadcut with mosses under Hesperocyparis sargentii and Quercus durata. Pileus light brown with fine fuzz. Lamellae concolorous, widely spaced,adnexed. Stipe blackish brown at base,fading to lighter brown at apex, ornamented with white fibrils.

In moss on granitic canyon wall with ferns. No distinct odor. A hint of gills at the margins and seemingly an annulus on at least one fruitbody. Next to road into the parking lot for Millard Falls trailhead. Spores visually a good match for Deconica montana which I frequently see on that canyon wall but none in the immediate vicinity at the time. No UV fluorescence.

Growing from poor gravelly soil with mosses,liverworts, and many other club fungi (Geoglossum and Microglossum). Small, extremely fragile, pale orange to pinkish clubs, often clustered at the base, turning white and soft in age.

I have no idea what this is. Strange brown cup-shaped fungus, unclear where the hymenium is. Top surface dark brown, dull, matted and concave. Stipe thick, flesh marshmallowy, with golden basal mycelium.

Growing under mature, widely spaced Pinus attenuata amongst chaparral. Chocolate to yellowish brown cap with distinct pointed umbo when young, radially fibrillose. Lamellae notched, narrowly attached, yellowish orange to vermillion orange at maturity, KOH+ bloodred. Stipe yellowish beige, silky-looking, KOH+ dark violet. Smells earthy, similar to Stropharia or Psilocybe.

Collection and photo by Michael Beug. Collection 04mwb112120.

under oak at home.

veil remnants and some flesh UV+

odor mild, taste mild then a little hot.
KOH on cap red-orange, base unreactive.

See also observation 480664. On a grass culm, likely Ammophila sp. Very small, 1 – 2 mm in diameter.

Found by Ava Arvest.

Microscopy by Jack Johnson, who says:

“I have used Rolf Singers monograph to Favolaschia, and landed in “Species incompletely known” and did not find any matches, although It is possible that more recent resources could bear better fruit.

Seems to be in the subsect. Depauperatae but again I’m aware this subsection may have more recently been divided/reassessed.

Spores, broadly elliptic to subglobose, most always with a single droplet and a strong apical plug

(7.4) 7.5 – 10.6 (12.4) × (5.2) 5.3 – 6.8 (6.9) µm

Gloeocystidia and gloeovessels present in KOH. Two types of cystidia observed."

See also discussion on https://www.facebook.com/...

Maybe. In Sphagnum fuscum in a hummock around an isolated hemlock.

Spore measurements
(7.3) 7.8 - 10.1 (12.9) × (3.7) 4.3 - 5.3 (6.1) µm
Q = (1.4) 1.5 - 2.2 (2.4) ; N = 40
Me = 9 × 4.8 µm ; Qe = 1.9

Cap dark brown in KOH, stipe red-brown

Growing in a moderate, loose troop on an old, decomposing, fairly large Douglas-fir stump also hosting Mucronella fusiformis.

Micro photos are:

1. Caulocystidia
2. Caulocystidia
3. Inflated cap surface cells
4. Cheilocystidia and weakly amyloid spores