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Giant fruiting of west coast reishi. Specimen was very dusty and is lacking some of its glossy bright colors but it was in the exact spot I found a smaller specimen and another large one a couple months ago. I could be wrong but I’m thinking it’s simply a less pretty example.

Extremely vibrant blue fruit body With distinctly textured, floccose stalk and cap. Spore print: pink. Cap appears blackish from above/distance. Long slender stem with very vibrant, iridescent mycelium attached at base.

Gills: Distinctly gray.

Fruiting beneath Douglas fir, Western red cedar, red alder and Western hemlock.

Elevation: 2700ft.

Temp: low 80’s.

Herbarium specimen available.

Update on 1/4/2021:
Mailed dried portions 1/2 pileus and stem to Ben McCormick for his ongoing research/sequencing (under C. Noordeloos). I am retaining remaining material in my home herbarium catalog.

See my mushroom observer post for habitat and further descriptions-linked below-
http://mushroomobserver.org/177179

This large pithy G. oregonense was monitored here at Watershed park on a dead Western Hemlock stump from 8/20/11 to 9/17/11. Images of middle growth were taken on 8/27/11. After collecting today we thinly sliced and dehydrated this specimen for later use as medicinal tea.

Temp has been from mid 70’s to 90’s in the last few weeks. Very low precipitation recorded during this specimens growth period.

Observed/collected on 10/12/2021 on Capital Mall campus Olympia, WA.
Notes:
Very young fruiting Beneath a line of Poplar and Oak.
Cap: covered In whitish bloom(dark brown beneath bloom). Pore surface: White. NOT STAINING where cut.
Stem: squat, bulbous, covered in dense reticulation. White to Light Golden brown(NOT STAINING where cut).
Odor: very pleasant(same as B. edulis).
Harvested 3 specimens and sliced/dehydrated for home herbarium collection.
Spore printed a portion of a cap directly on a glass slide for spore deposit/microscopy.
Spores: large, elongate(broadly spindle shaped).
Mailed dried material from this collection to IGS on 10/14/2021.
My coinciding Mushroomobserver observation below-

https://mushroomobserver.org/472718?q=1k4HD

Update on 10/21/21:
Returned to the patch to check on the remaining fruiting bodies that I left to mature(on initial observation date 10/12/21) and two were at full maturity/soggy. Maroon/brownish mahogany caps with majority of the white bloom warn off from heavy rains over the last 9 days. Harvested a single nearly mature fruiting body and dehydrated for culinary use(and a portion to add to herbarium bag/voucher(images/updates from today included in this observation of mature fruits-note the stretched squirrel nibbles from original two specimens from 10/12-to today).

Notes/link from my MO observation below-
Overall brown tones(tomentose/flocked cap including the teeth) with white margin bands. Harvested/dried 6 specimens for herbarium collection. https://mushroomobserver.org/439938?q=1XsbF

Fruiting in muddy, almost standing water(after snowmelt) on buried cedar twig bundles.

Too small to get any information underneath caps or possible cups.

We’ll check it out next time- maybe get a sample or two.

Elevation: Approx. 3000ft.

Temp: 50’s.

Fruiting in grass directly beneath mature Douglas fir.
Light,yellowish brown central disc. Lilac purple flesh context.
Odor: Pungently spermatic.
Spore print=light brown.
Spores=elliptical, smooth.
Harvested 5 fruiting bodies and dried for home herbarium record.
Spore printed a single cap directly on glass slide/performed microscopy(images included in observation). https://mushroomobserver.org/399506?q=15aAP

Found on Well rotted conifer- from bark it looks to be either Ponderosa pine or larch. Young specimens,

This looks to have started spreading and then was halted by lack of rainfall. I will have to monitor this substrate throughout this season to see when the cap folds form.

Elevation: 2700ft.

Temp: low 60’s.

Fruiting on a large fallen conifer(most likely fir). Usually I only find these in a colorful stage in late summer to early November in this area of the mid elevation cascade mtns.- this year has been unusually warm.

Elevation: 2700ft.

Older specimens- deeper brownish red than usual orange and white color.

Younger fruiting on a well rotted conifer(bark less). By the end of each season these fruiting bodies will lengthen with whiter tips and appear almost like a Hericium with orange tinges from a distant view.

Although technically a tubed fungus, I am placing this observation in the “toothed fungi” species list based on macroscopic appearance to compare to similar looking species in the Hericium.

Elevation: 2400ft.

Lara and I counted more than 50 great blue heron in this one location through the fog this morning. This old, detached railroad dock is a common perch for belted kingfisher, herons, gulls and cormorants. Never witnessed this many blue heron together in my life. See added images for closer detail.

White hymenium and stem with a canary yellow cap. I often refer to cascade chanties as the "white and yellow" or two tone Chanterelle. Fruiting in mid elevation with roots of Douglas fir in conifer dominant canopies between 2000-3000ft. in the cascade mountains but also occurring at lower elevations predominantly in October and November. Hymenium "veins" are usually arranged much tighter and deeper than other members of the PNW Chanterelle's such as C. formosus and C. subalbidus, another key indicator for the species. Just as delectable and similar in stature to the white and Pacific golden Chanterelles.