Observaciones de amamalian

Found in leaf litter under big leaf maple, flat ground, growing out of soil. Scattered single fruiting bodies. Stipe Wrinkled in a way that’s similar to H. vespertina, caps smooth to touch and kind of rubbery.

Habitat: Growing on ornamental hardwood in a parking lot.
Key features: Fruticose branched thallus minty green to orange. Branches round but with distinctly foveolate (pitted.) Mazaedium present at some branch tips, fairly common. Cortex UV+ bright blue white and one specimen reacted to the long wave with a bright yellow green color.

Weather: Sunny to partly cloudy.
Habitat: Growing on some type of Salix species close to the coast near Westport Lighthouse.
Key features: Loosely appressed thallus measuring about 4-5cm; upper surface gray and distinctly pubescent with tiny hairs as seen in the second photo. Lobes around 2-5mm wide. Lower surface light brown and tomentose with white papillae. Reddish brown apothecia on the underside of lobes. Photobiont blue green. All microscopic shots taken at 20x.

Weather: Raining.
Habitat: Growing on bark on some species of Acer tree in a parking lot.
Key features: Reddish brown apothecia on the underside of lobe tips and the very distinctive yellow medulla. Very exciting find for me, I remember reading the slugs apparently found the medulla distasteful, and my friend the yellow color is due to the presence of pulvinic acid!
Foliose thallus, fairly small (only a few cm broad.) Upper surface grayish light brown with the yellow medulla showing through cracks here and there. Marginal lobules present but no soredia or isidia seen. Photobiont blue green. Medulla UV+ neon orange. Microscopic shots taken at 20x.

Weather: Sunny to rainy depending on which picture you’re looking at.
Habitat: Found growing on the bark of some species in the Acer genus in the “B” parking lot of TESC.
Key features: Loosely appressed foliose thallus measuring from about 4-17cm depending on maturity; lobes about 1-3cm wide. Upper cortex light to dark brown with networks of veiny ridges covered in whitish-gray soralia. Lower surface light brown and tomentose with white pseudocyphellae. Photobiont blue green. No apothecia seen. Microscopic shots taken at 20x.

Weather: Sunny to partly cloudy.
Habitat: Found growing on bark on some type of Salix species close to the coast near Westport Lighthouse.
Key features: Loosely appressed foliose thallus measuring about 4cm long; upper cortex mostly light brown but some specimens also looked kind of gray to dark brown, both with a distinct network of ridges. Lower cortex light brown and tomentose with what looks like pseudocyphellae (little white dots.) Apothecia present and abundant, reddish brown. Soredia and isidia lacking. Photobiont blue green.

I’m a little curious about the little blackish dots along the ridges I’m seeing, does anyone know if that is from a parasite or something? At first I thought it might be pycnidia or perithecium, but I don’t think it could have that and apothecia at the same time right?

I’m a little unsure about the genus on this one actually, it looks like it used to be in Pseudocyphellaria but got moved to Lobaria, anyone know if that is correct and why it fits into that genus as opposed to Pseudocyphellaria since it seems to have the psuedocyphellae? All microscopic photos were taken at 20x.

Found in the evergreen woods on an overcast day amongst some P. menziesii, Gaultheria shallon, and Polystichum munutim.
Trumpet or vase-like growth with black inner color and gray external color. Undulating cap margins and some with tomentose scales on the inner surface as seen in picture 2. Tastes delicious!

Weather: Partly cloudy.
Habitat: Found in an Acer sp. tree in the “B” parking lot at Evergreen.
Key features: Thallus about 4-6cm broad, upper cortex dark brown almost black, “dusty” feeling when dry, shrimpy-fishy smelling when wet. Lower cortex light brown to gray, tomentose and containing cyphellae here and there; picture four (40x). Lobes rounded, top surface very thick with black isidia as seen in picture five (40x).

Weather: Overcast.
Habitat: Found on the forest floor in a mixed coniferous/deciduous habitat. Overstory consisting of P. menziesii, A. rubra, and A. circinatum.
Growing on bark, possibly P. menziesii.
Elevation~73
Key features: Thallus fairly small, about 3 cm broad, whitish gray-green; lobes 2-5mm broad with distinctive black marginal cilia. Lower cortex black with a brown margin. Distinguished from P. perlatum but the bright blue-white UV+ medulla as seen in the fourth picture, signifying the presence of alectoronic acid.

Weather: Overcast.
Habitat: Found scattered in a section of forest near the campus buildings; they tend to pop up here every year. Overstory consisted of mostly Thuja plicata, P. menziesii, and A. macrophyllum. Found in the duff and mossy soil; I seem to find them in areas with more T. plicata and oftentimes accompanied but the beautiful Gliophorus psitticinus.
Key features: Cap measuring 2-7 cm, broadly convex, becoming plane and even uplifted with maturity. Cap margins starting down curved and becoming flat and then undulating with age. Color is orange-reddish-brown. Surface has a distinct kind of rough feel to it unlike other look alike Lactarius, almost feels like a cat tongue but not quite that rough. Not viscid even when wet.
Gills are attached and even slightly decurrent; subdistant and unequal. Lighter color than the cap. Produces a very watery latex when cut, not a thick white latex.
Stipe is 3-6cm long, 5-10 mm wide, hollow in the middle and kind of chunky-chalky texture (breaks easily.) Color fairly similar to cap.
Flesh is brittle, fragile, chalky.
Spore deposit white.
Smell is very distinctive of this species, I’ve found patches but smelling a maple-brown sugar aroma in the air and looming around. Although fresh individual specimens don’t smell like this, if many are growing in one area it definitely smells. If you dry this mushroom out, the maple smell becomes very pronounced! I’ve heard of people holding a lighter to fresh mushrooms as well to get the smell of unsure in the field.

Weather: Overcast.
Habitat: Found scattered to clustered in a section of forest near the college buildings. Overstory consisted of mostly Thuja plicata, P. menziesii, and A. macrophyllum. Found in the duff and soil; these seem to really like areas with more T. plicata for some reason.
Key features: Cap color is various as shown in first photo, starting out typically dark green, then fading to light yellow-green or even orange-peach. Rounded conical to convex with umbo. 1-3 cm wide; extremely viscid and slimy when wet along with cap showing striations.
Gills attached with a distinct notch; subdistant. Color mostly yellow-greenish white.
Stipe is also extremely viscid and slimy (hard to handle!) Color is fairly bright yellow 3-6cm long, 3-5mm wide.
Flesh very fragile.
Spore deposit is white.

Weather: Overcast.
Habitat: Found in the South Fork Hoh River campground on the forest floor. Overstory mostly consisting of Tsuga heterophylla and Picea sitchensis. Very wet forest near the ocean.
Key features: Large foliose thallus, around 20cm broad. Lobes 1-2cm broad with distinct marginal lobules all around.
Thallus pale greenish on upper cortex and light brown to whitish patches between veins on the bottom cortex. Upper surface has clear shallow network of vein-like ridges.

Apothecia fairly abundant on this sample; reddish brown in color.