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I think. It might also be P. foenisecii, are they hygrophanous?

Habitat/Ecology: LBMs growing in grassy area, saprobic.
Cap: Conical or bell-shaped. Light brown or caramel when young, cream colored when mature. Younger specimens had a distinct dark band around and slightly above the margin. The older specimens tended to lack this. Mature caps had brown bruising in areas damaged by bugs.
Gills: Adnate, attached to stipe. Gray-brown. Very fitting for Panaeolus.
Stipe: Long, fibrous, white and pruinose, bruising brown. No bulb at the base; stays straight continuously.
Annulus: Absent.
Volva: Absent.
Spore color: Brown, dark brown.
Spore morphology: Ellipsoid, once described as "lemon shaped".
Spore measurements:

(11.6) 12.4 - 15 (15.5) × (7.3) 7.8 - 8.8 (9.2) µm
Q = (1.3) 1.4 - 1.8 (1.9) ; N = 25
Me = 14 × 8.3 µm ; Qe = 1.7

I've noticed that my spore size measurements are a little off from other peoples. I know it varies specimen to specimen, but I can't help but think somehow I'm getting my calibration wrong.

All microscopy done using 40x objective and 1MP camera.

Image 3: Spore sizes in Piximetre
Image 4, 5, 6: Spores.
Image 7, 8, 9: Gill edge, cystidia and basidia.

Absolutely ridiculous. The most mushrooms I’ve ever found in a single foray. So beautiful.

An absolutely ungodly number of White Chanterelles! They were everywhere!!!!! I had to restrain myself from picking more!

Observation #400 (woah)

Single fruiting beneath Western Hemlock outside of the loop A restrooms at Mora campground.
Cap: blue, striate at margin.
Stem: heavily pruinose/frosted.
Harvested specimen and stored in my tacklebox until arriving back home to Olympia on 8/27/24. Dehydrated specimen overnight and bagged for my fungal herbarium/genetic record.
My corresponding Mushroomobserver observation linked below-

https://mushroomobserver.org/558514?q=1oaSB

Fruiting body pale white, firm. Veins present on underside. Margin rolled under. Stem short, thick. Orange staining observed. Growing in ground, sometimes in clusters, but usually standalone.

The last image shows one of my C. subalbidus specimens (left) next to a more orange C. formosus (right).

Found in Big Pond trail systems. My first C. subalbidus find!

Obervation #300 (yay!)

"Huh, a blue piece of wood- weird..."
When I realised what it was, I brought it back home with me and imaged it with my DSLR in my backyard. First time not imaging specimens with my iphone. Beautiful teal cups growing out of a piece of old wood. Sadly, the whole file size was too much for iNaturalist to handle.

Observation #285

Found growing in disturbed soil underneath conifer and pine trees.

Cap: Brown. They were young - largest measured at about 1.3cm in diameter. Smooth, with strange greying region along the margin.
Stipe: Rust brown, pruinose. No abrupt bulb.
Gills: Adnexed, grayish-brown. White fringes.
Annulus: Not present.
Volva: Not present.
Spore color: Gray.
Spore morphology: Ovoid, football-shaped.
Basidia: 4-sterigmate (see photo 5)
Cheilocystidia and pleurocystidia were not observed.

Image 5: Spores still attached to basidia, 4 present. 2000x
Image 6: Gill edge 2000x
Image 7: Basidia 2000x
Image 8: Gill edge 200x
Image 9: Gill edge 200x

Fruiting beneath Douglas fir, Evergreen huckleberry and Western red cedar.
Harvested specimen and dehydrating for herbarium collection/genetic record.
My corresponding Mushroomobserver observation below-

https://mushroomobserver.org/548287?q=1oaSB

I’ve seen @aaronjhillard ‘s and @millivedder ’s Cantharellus formosus observations and thought I’d see for myself. Chanterelles in June seemed pretty crazy! I went back to where I had found some last year, and, sure enough, found some beautiful little butter sponges! I feel bad for picking them though, they were way too tiny. I should have left them there and come back to them in a couple of days. Also, I’m pretty sure I’ve accidentally come across someone else’s secret chanterelle spot, but whatever.

Oh, and happy 200th observation!

In wood chip landscaping. Mild mushroom odor and flavor. Cap extremely viscid!

Spores measure

(6.9) 7.2 - 8 (9) × (3.8) 4.1 - 4.7 (4.8) x (3.6) 3.9 - 4.4 (4.5) µm
Q = (1.6) 1.64 - 1.87 (1.9) ; N = 30
Me = 7.7 × 4.4 µm ; Qe = 1.7

This may sound strange, but this is actually the first true morel I have ever found. Albeit I’ve only been into this sort of thing for a year now. Today it was sort of my mission to at least find some sort of morel. At one point I was chanting “morchella morchella morchella” into the forest floor to see if anything would happen. Literally, no more than 5 minutes later I found this litte guy hanging out, growing out of a disturbed area of forest floor. There was only one (to my dismay) - something I came to accept 15 minutes after scouring the ground for more. Really awesome thing to find!

Im assuming this is M. norvegiensis because its a woodland morel and consistent with most images I found online. Im not a morel expert, so if I am wrong feel free to correct me!

I went home, made a spore solution, mixed with some ash and clay and spread it under a hemlock in the woods behind my neighborhood. I await next spring with minimal expectations.