Lysurus corallocephalus

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Lysurus_corallocephalus.html

Note: Since I have not collected or studied collections of this mushroom, the description is based on the sources cited below and the photos sent to me.

Ecology: Probably saprobic; growing alone or gregariously in a variety of habitats (Dring [1980] lists the following for specimens examined: "on soil in maize field," "under Pithecolobium," "Old Calabar botanic garden," "in Acacia xanthophaea woodland," "Bamboo forest c. 7000 ft," "edge of cultivated field and natural woodland," and "in grass"); originally described from Angola (Welwitsch & Currey 1868); distributed throughout subSaharan Africa; found year-round.

Fruiting Body: At first a pale "egg" up to 4 cm across; emerging to form a stem and a head. Stem up to 12 cm high; more or less cylindric; hollow; whitish to yellowish, pink, or reddish; spongy; pitted; arising from a whitish to pinkish volva. Head scarlet to reddish orange, with protruding branches arranged around polygonal meshes; the branches simple or forked, up to 3 mm wide and 2 cm long, accordion-like when fresh; covered with olive-brown to dark brown spore slime.

Microscopic Features: Spores 3.5-4.5 x 1.5-2 m; more or less ellipsoid.

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Stropharia Rugosoannulata. Aka wine caps. Choice edible if you can beat the bugs to them. I usually can't. Basically tastes like potatoes to me.

Rugosoannulata basically means, rough annulus. The annulus is the ring or veil that gets left behind on the stem when the mushroom opens.

Based on the time of year and location my best guess is Agrocybe Putaminium. Definitely some sort of Agrocybe.

Ochropsora ariae ex Anemone nemorosa

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The recent rain woke up one of our fall 2020 golden oyster logs. I was sure we were not going to see any more mushrooms from this log, it was super productive over the last two years and has lost a lot of bark. We have a new set of blue oyster logs that we expect to see do well soon, but no new goldens.

The golden isn't my favorite mushroom for taste/texture, but I'll probably go ahead and make some more golden logs next fall, can't beat it on productivity.

Sparassis radicata

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Sparassis_radicata.html

Ecology: Pathogenic and saprobic; growing from the roots or bases of trees; found under conifers (especially pines and Douglas-fir); annual, but often recurring yearly in the same location; causing a brown rot or a butt rot; fall and winter; originally described from Idaho; distributed in the Pacific Northwest and northern California. The illustrated and described collections are from California and Oregon.

Fruiting Body: 10-45 cm across; up to 30 cm high; composed of tightly packed, noodle-like branches which arise from a common basal structure (which measures up to 30 cm long, tapering into the ground); branches thin-fleshed, whitish to yellowish or tan, evenly colored, bald; flesh whitish, unchanging when sliced.

Odor and Taste: Not distinctive.

Spore Print: Whitish.

Microscopic Features: Spores 4-7 x 2.5-4 m; ellipsoid or broadly ellipsoid; smooth; hyaline in KOH; inamyloid. Basidia 40-55 x 5-6 m; narrowly clavate; 4-sterigmate. Cystidia not found. Contextual hyphae 3-8 (-10) m wide; smooth; walls to 0.5 m thick; hyaline in KOH; clamp connections present.

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Sarea resinae

Amanita fulva

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Amanita_fulva.html

Ecology: Mycorrhizal with hardwoods or conifers; growing alone, scattered, or gregariously; summer and fall; widely distributed east of the Rocky Mountains.

Cap: 4-10 cm; oval to convex, becoming broadly convex or nearly flat; sticky at first or when wet; tawny brown to brown; sometimes with a few scattered white to tawny patches; bald; the margin prominently lined or grooved.

Gills: Free from the stem or slightly attached to it; whitish; close or nearly crowded; short-gills infrequent.

Stem: 7-16 cm long; 0.5-1.5 cm thick; slightly tapered to apex; bald or slightly hairy; whitish to pale brownish; without a ring; the base enclosed in a sacklike, white volva that fits loosely around the stem and often discolors tawny brown.

Flesh: White throughout; soft; unchanging when sliced.

Odor: Not distinctive.

Chemical Reactions:KOH negative on cap surface.

Spore Print: White.

Microscopic Features: Spores 9-11 ; smooth; globose or subglobose; inamyloid. Basidia without clamps; 4-spored. Pileipellis an ixocutis of hyphae 2-6 wide. Lamellar trama bilateral; subhymenium ramose.

Brunnipila fuscescens

Albatrellus cristatus

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Albatrellus_cristatus.html

Ecology: Assumed to be mycorrhizal; growing alone or scattered; terrestrial under hardwoods and occasionally under conifers; summer and fall; widely distributed east of the Rocky Mountains.

Cap: 5-20 cm across; circular or irregular in outline; loosely convex, flat, or irregular; dry; smooth or somewhat velvety or leathery, sometimes becoming cracked with age (but not scaly before this); yellowish to yellowish brown, sometimes with greenish shades; often bruising olive or greenish, especially near the margin.

Pore Surface: Descending the stem; white, or eventually greenish to yellowish; pores small (1-3 per mm) and angular; tubes 1-5 mm deep.

Stem: 3-6 cm long; 1-2.5 cm wide; central or somewhat off-center; yellowish; smooth; dry.

Flesh: White; olive to greenish around larval tunnels; sometimes slowly staining olive to greenish or even bluish on exposure; thick.

Chemical Reactions: Flesh slowly reddish with KOH.

Spore Print: White.

Microscopic Features: Spores 5-6 x 4-5 ; smooth; round or nearly so. Clamp connections absent.

Cortinarius azureus

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Cortinarius_azureus.html

Ecology: Mycorrhizal with beech; growing alone, scattered, or gregariously; fall; probably to be expected in North America throughout the range of the host tree (see the map on the linked page).

Cap: 2-6 cm; convex to bell-shaped, becoming broadly convex, flat, or broadly bell-shaped; dry; silky, developing a sheen with age; lilac, developing brownish hints, especially over the center; the margin often slightly wrinkled.

Gills: Attached to the stem, sometimes by a notch; close; lilac at first, becoming rusty brown; covered by a white cortina when young.

Stem: 3-10 cm long; up to 1 cm thick; more or less equal, or with a slightly swollen base; dry; lilac, fading to whitish from the base up; silky to nearly smooth.

Flesh: Whitish to lilac or purple (especially in the stem).

Odor: Sweet and slightly unpleasant, slightly radishlike, or not distinctive.

Chemical Reactions: KOH negative on cap surface.

Spore Print: Rusty brown.

Microscopic Features: Spores 6-10 x 5-8 ; subglobose to very broadly ellipsoid; weakly verrucose. Cheilo- and pleurocystidia absent. Pileipellis a cutis.

REFERENCES: Fries, 1838. (Saccardo, 1887; Moser, 1983; Phillips, 1991/2005; Breitenbach & Kränzlin, 2000.) Herb. Kuo 10160406.