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Poor picture quality, but I want to sequence it.

Mid elev 2500 ft Doug fir/ hemlock forest with sparse huckleberry understory. Dense firm but crumbly like old cauliflower. Brown stain on stipe.

Under spruce
Odor of almonds

Viscid stipe and cap with smell of "frosting" Almond?
In Sitka spruce old growth like forest - deep moss layer.

Edge of native prairie under conifers. Other cortinarius species besides C. semisanguineus frequently found together.

Elfin Saddle weighing 259 grams, 10 inches tall, growing on the forest floor under Douglas Fir trees in Olympia Wa. Sample collecting for sequencing.

cap 5.5 cm across

no odor

Elevation:2669 ft

Possible H. capreolarius

Funny plastic like odor. Found by pdvmushroom, see https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/9640562

cf.

fruiting gregariously along trailside

Purple-brown spore print. Floccose cap.
AJG10/19/21-7&8

Under second growth Sequoia sempervirens near creek

With Picea sitchensis, strongly almond-scented

Montane coniferous forest
3300 ft elevation

Tiny green hygrocybe that turn yellow orange. Some patches come up orange. Mossy lawn. Maple cherry. Fruit bodies are less than an inch tall. Cap and stipe sticky. Average spore size 8 x 6 microns.

Cap very viscid. C. Brunneoalbus?

H. aff. mucronella/reae, seems to be undescribed. Very bitter, completely viscid. Found in moss on the roadside

sample collected and dried for sequencing

Growing on cedar downed log.
Marginata on gill edges.

these are probably more common than we think; snowbank, under Tsuga mertensiana

On maple stump.

Under coast redwood
Strong green/yellow fluorescence on margin of cap

Great patch of a couple dozen Parrots in montane setting of typical rain forest.

Forest of Silver Fir and Red Cedar; growing in debris on forest floor near branch from unknown type tree

Tiny waxcap on old road grade.

Needle litter, moss, hemlock, pacific silver fir forest, huckleberries

growing in the soil and woody debris. the young specimens had the red droplets the older had white margins and pink velvety on the cap. Toothed fungi with a long buried stipe.

Under Mountain Hemlock True firs and probably some spruce and pine at 4500 ft.

Found on Abies

These may be the most beautiful mushrooms I've ever seen in my life.

Stains violet immediately. Soil. Old growth hemlock 3500ft

Strong sweet odor remarkable.

Maybe Lentinellus?

Very large clusters. 8-10cm Orange. Firm. Not staining. No odor or taste. Gelatinous interior stipe? Yellowish lower stipe when dried.

Downed douglas fir. Easy to find again, so can go back for more info.