Infected Arctostaphylos 'Sentinel'. Was also found on the 'Howard Mcminn', and may be on the Arctostaphylos columbiana in the garden.
Maple syrup/candied pecans smell when left overnight in tackle box. Orangish koh
Host: Rhododendron macrophyllum
lost my in situ shots of the leaves, so photos are of the collected leaf
Mycota Micro's Tube 10
microscopy:
spores upto 70 um long
Late May cyanescens. Crazy!
(I placed lewisia flowers next too it too show that this pic was actually taken in May.)
Found on leaves of Hydrophyllum occidentale near a snowmelt-fed stream in a hardwood/conifer forest off of Mendocino Pass Road, Mendocino National Forest
Spore states present are aecia (cups, hypophyllous) and spermogonia (epiphyllous)
CADE, PSME, NODE. Slightly bleachy smell
Blackening, viscid. Doug fir, Coyote brush, madrone, invasive blackberry
Found on edge of mixed hardwood/conifer forest and grassland east of Duvoul creek, Bohemia Ecological Preserve
Fruiting directly from many different litter substrates (Pseudotsuga menziesii, Arbutus menziesii, Heteromeles arbutifolia) under mixed hardwood/conifer canopy
Small, fragile Mycena with varying colors ranging from bright orange to yellow to white, often displaying all 3 colors within a single mushroom. Gills usually orange to yellow, broadly attached to subdecurrent
Smell and taste indistinct
Terrestrial under old growth Pseudotsuga menzesii, approx 100 yards from upper Rogue River. Brown cap, white flesh, abruptly bulbous base.
Cortinarius 11. Hemlock maple. Average spore size 14 x 7.5 microns.