Creek trail, Sugarloaf State Park. Arbutus menziesii, Quercus, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Umbellularia californica, Heteromeles arbutifolia dominated mixed hardwood/conifer forest
Growing on the moist underside of decomposing hardwood (what I believe to be Umbellularia californica)
Poroid, amorphous, white crust with extending rhizomorphs. Pores consist of short tubes, varying in size and stature. Thin and fragile
Smells like old animal bedding at a pet store, slightly like urine
Taste instinct
KOH indistinct
Fluoresces a dim white
References say spores larger and usually in Broadleafs, but can be in/on Fir.
Inside/behind outer bark within a mostly decomposed Douglas Fir.
Spores tiny ~3-3.5 X 2 µm.
Perhaps. On beech or magnolia
Among old trees in area near Hackensack Water Company facility.
Collected at PNW Key Council spring foray, 2017
Single to gregarious in soil under shrubs – rose, dogwood etc. near Quercus, Pseudotsuga, + unidentified smaller hardwood
Cap – < 3.7 cm diam., sub-acute conical; hygrophanous; reddish-ochre at first, drying to ochraceous-buff; smooth, lubricous,
Gills – deeply notched but attached; close; pale orange-ochre, sub-serrate edges;
Stipe – < 10.0 cm tall x 0.8 cm wide; dry; striate to grooved; no annulus; deeply rooting.
Micro – spores ~ 5-7 × 3-3.5, oblong, white, smooth, inamyloid
Showy Orange Bolete, Upper County Park, Toano, James City County, VA, on bike trail