P. gandalfiana nom. prov.
Found these in my garden growing in a cardboard mulched wine barrel with soil & pea plants
Tahoe National Forest in the 2022 Mosquito Fire burn scar. Pinus, Abies, Quercus and Calocedrus decurrens dominant mixed hardwood/conifer montane forest
Growing in Funaria hygrometrica-covered, burned soil
Stipitate orange cup with a serrate white margin
Smell and taste indistinct
Tahoe National Forest in the 2022 Mosquito Fire burn scar. Pinus, Abies, Quercus and Calocedrus decurrens dominant mixed hardwood/conifer montane forest
Growing on duff-covered burned ground
Lobed, irregular-shaped cups with a bright orange hymenophore, deep blue/green coloration on margin and exciple. White near substrate attachment point
Smell indistinct
Taste bitter
Blue fluorescence on substrate attachment point near base
Black, folded cap,
White to yellow UV,
Growing trailside,
Near sitka spruce/alder
Folsom Lake State Recreation Area- Mixed ecotypes. Quercus wislizeni dominant woodland with scattered Pinus sabiniana, occasional grassland zones and chaparral
Brown/black smut fungus parasitizing Bromus. Inflorescences of grass completely taken over, leaving sacs of spored where seeds would be
Very interesting UV, maybe just the grass?
Conifer-dominant subalpine forest southeast of Anthony's Peak, Mendocino National Forest
Growing in snow under large, old-growth Abies magnifica and Abies concolor
Birds nest fungus with numerous (20+) brown peridia per sporocarp, suspended in a gel-like matrix. Margin danish, exterior brown, tomentose
Birds nest
Smell indistinct