@ryan_durand or @corndog -- this stuff was being fed on by chrome beetles and seemed to ride the line between slime mold and fungus, but for the oil-slick lustre and strange net-like margins
Found in a wet meadow.
Tentative. @corndog - does this seem right?
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Burned Quercus/Pinus dominant woodland (now shrubland post-burn), just west of Knoxville road near Lake Berryessa
Growing in soil and directly off fine roots in a hole leftover from a burned out root system
Brown pileus with a wavy margin. Lamellae white to cream colored, anastomosing, subdistant to distant, broadly attached to subdecurrent. Stipe short, fibrous, off-center
Smell indistinct
Burned Quercus/Pinus dominant woodland (now shrubland post-burn), just west of Knoxville road near Lake Berryessa
Growing in soil and directly off fine roots in a hole leftover from a burned out root system
Brown pileus with a wavy margin. Lamellae white to cream colored, anastomosing, subdistant to distant, broadly attached to subdecurrent. Stipe short, fibrous, off-center
Smell indistinct
3cm tall cap 1 cm wide,
Found in bog on ground near buried rotting wood
Folsom Lake State Recreation Area- Mixed ecotypes. Quercus wislizeni dominant woodland with scattered Pinus sabiniana, occasional grassland zones and chaparral
Found in a rodent dig in sandy soils under Quercus wislizeni and Styrax redivivus
Truffle with scaly, orange-red peridium. Gleba white, veined, gelatinous looking, with orange, inverted tissue in center
Smell indistinct