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San Vicente Redwoods- Mixed hardwood/conifer forest that burned in the 2020 CZU fire
Growing on the side of trail in burnt soil in an area of high severity burn dominated by early successional Eriodictyon californicum and Ceanothus
Rusty orange, strongly hygrophanous pileus. Lamellae light orange/brown becoming darker in age, finely serrate, narrowly attached to notched to broadly attached. Stipe becoming slightly enlarged at base, fibrous, twisted in some specimens, covered in delicate white fibrils that easily come off, giving it a "frosted" appearance
Taste and smell indistinct
Brown KOH on pileus

Found amongst mesquite woodland. Possibly/probably transported here by humans but bears and bear habitat are not terribly far from here and a starving/sick animal may have wandered onto the desert to die

Growth Habit: Subconnate to gregarious
Habitat: Growing directly underneath pine and was initially completely covered by pine needles and leaf litter.
Distribution: Florida
Odor: Buttered popcorn
Spores: Rusty brown, measuring 8.99 – 11.69 × 4.9 – 6.69 µm
Q = 1.56 – 1.96 ; N = 19
Me = 10.12 × 5.67 µm ; Qe = 1.789
10.44 × 5.47
10.19 × 5.33
9.78 × 5.18
9.52 × 4.9
8.99 × 5.44
10.55 × 5.84
9.70 × 5.80
10.19 × 6.03
10.28 × 6.24
10.52 × 5.35
9.77 × 6.25
11.69 × 6.69
10.30 × 5.52
9.97 × 5.84
10.45 × 5.79
10.33 × 5.33
9.83 × 5.96
10.45 × 5.37
9.36 × 5.48

Fruiting in a tangle of hawthorn near the quartermaster harbor. 50+ fruiting bodies. Extremely viscid all over. Caps displaying the “windows” hence “Gliophorus fenestrata” or whatever.

Caps orange-red to yellow with darker striations. lightening around cap margin. VERY stick and viscid. planar to convex. 1.5-3cm diameter

Gills adnexed - subdecurrent, creamy yellow to pink

stipes yellow and marbled. very slippery and sticky. 4.5-7cm long. 0.25-0.5cm wide.

no smell or taste at all

found by @fish_narc I poked around and found a few more fruit bodies including this in situ mushroom. same area and some of the same mushrooms as his observation
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/194950438

Wavy, ridgelike false gills on a tiny (<1cm) cap. Cap fragile and bumpy on its surface.
Found in abundance, growing exclusively on horsetail. I have so far been unable to find a species matching it.
The interesting ecology was enough to warrant going back today to get a sample for sequencing.

A rare 10 Waxy Cap! Found in a mixed coastal forest of mainly Western Red Cedar (Thuja plicata) and Big Leaf Maples (Acer macrophyllum) next to fruitings of Hygrocybe flavescens and near H.coccinea. Found directly underneath Sword Fern (Polystichum munitum) fronds. 1 mature and 3 immature fruits. 2 were vouchered. Incredibly viscid and beautiful.

Same locality as Luca Hickey's collection: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/68580293

This hill hosts a large variety of fungal diversity, especially within the Waxy Cap family and has been the site of many of our unique specimens over the last 5 years as part of the "Hygrophoraceae of the Lower Puget Sound" project. It's very exciting to see another year of fruiting for this fungus so far from it's previously known range.

Orange/brown crust growing from cut end of dead Abies. In CA incense cedar/Abies/giant sequoia dominant mixed conifer/hardwood forest. McKinley Grove, Sierra National Forest
Very thin and adhered to substrate, hard to peel off
Taste/smell indistinct
Slightly yellow KOH
Glows orange under UVB

Stipe texture and pileus shape of younger ones made me think Mycena but probably not. Xeromphalina? Fruiting from soil in streambank with Abies magnifica and Pinus jeffreyi nearby. KOH brown. Odorless. Chrysomphalina aurantiaca and Galerina sp. in close proximity. KOH brown. Odorless.