SabineI thought those were droppings of a deer but a closer inspection revealed they were very small (1-2 cm) mushrooms.
Not sure what they are 🤔. Dark gills underneath.
MushroomBotCantharellus appalachiensis
https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Cantharellus_appalachiensis.html
Ecology: Mycorrhizal with oaks and other hardwoods; growing alone, gregariously, or in small clusters; summer; apparently widely distributed east of the Great Plains. The illustrated and described collections are from Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois.
Cap: 1.5-6 cm across; convex with an inrolled margin at first, becoming broadly convex, flat, or shallowly depressed, with an inrolled, uplifted, or irregular and wavy margin; the disc not becoming perforated; bald or nearly so; often somewhat wrinkled, especially over the center; moist when fresh but soon dry; brown overall at first, but soon developing yellow undertones and eventually becoming yellowish brown to yellowish, with a brown spot over the disc.
Undersurface: With well-developed, closely spaced false gills that run down the stem; yellow throughout development; often developing cross-veins with maturity.
Stem: 2-6 cm long; 3-11 mm thick; fairly slender; equal, or tapering downward; bald; brownish to brownish yellow or yellow; fleshy but becoming partially hollow at the core; basal mycelium white.
Flesh: Whitish to yellowish; unchanging when sliced.
Odor and Taste: Odor fragrant, reminiscent of apricots; taste not distinctive.
Chemical Reactions: Iron salts dull red on flesh and undersurface.
Spore Print: White to creamy.
Microscopic Features: Spores 6-9 x 3.5-5 ; ellipsoid; smooth; inamyloid; ochraceous in KOH; with minutely granular contents. Basidia 45-65 long; 4- 6-sterigmate. Elements from cap surface 5-12.5 wide; hyaline to brown in KOH; smooth; septate; clamped; terminal cells clavate to subclavate, thin-walled.
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Cortinarius caesiocanescens
https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Cortinarius_caesiocanescens.html
Ecology: Mycorrhizal with pines and other conifers; growing alone, scattered, or gregariously; fall; North American range uncertain (see above).
Cap: 3-9 cm; convex, becoming broadly convex to nearly flat, or broadly bell-shaped; sticky; silky; pale bluish gray to purplish gray, but sometimes fading to nearly whitish or pale yellowish; the margin at first inrolled.
Gills: Attached to the stem; close; bluish gray to purplish at first, becoming rusty brown.
Stem: 6-9 cm long; up to about 2 cm thick; equal above an abruptly bulbous base; dry; pale lilac to bluish gray; silky to nearly smooth; the bulb surface whitish, discoloring yellowish with age; often adorned with with rusty cortina remnants when mature.
Flesh: Whitish to yellowish--or pale lilac to grayish in the stem.
Odor and Taste: Not distinctive.
Chemical Reactions: KOH negative on cap surface; pale gray to brownish on flesh.
Spore Print: Rusty brown.
Microscopic Features: Spores 7-10 x 4-5.5 ; amygdaliform; moderately verrucose. Cheilo- and pleurocystidia absent; marginal cells present. Pileipellis an ixocutis of hyaline to ochraceous, clamped elements.
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Calvatia fragilis
https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Calvatia_fragilis.html
Ecology: Saprobic; terrestrial; growing alone, gregariously, or in fairy rings in grass—on lawns, in meadows, and so on; summer and early fall; widely distributed in North America. The illustrated and described collections are from Illinois and Québec.
Fruiting Body: Shaped like a ball, or nearly so; 2-8 cm across and 2-4 cm high; whitish to gray or pale grayish brown, or purplish in places; with age the surface usually developing a mosaic pattern; outer "skin" about 1 mm thick; interior flesh white, becoming yellow to yellowish and eventually turning into purple-brown spore dust; basal area lacking or extremely rudimentary (and then composed of cottony fibers).
Odor and Taste: Not distinctive.
Chemical Reactions: KOH negative on surface.
Microscopic Features: Spores 4-5.5 m (measured without ornamentation); globose or subglobose; densely spiny with spines 1-1.5 m long; hyaline in KOH. Capillitial threads 2-10 m wide; thick-walled; septate; hyaline in KOH.
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Hygrophorus olivaceoalbus
https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Hygrophorus_olivaceoalbus.html
Ecology: Traditionally thought to be mycorrhizal with conifers, but possibly parasitic on the roots of spruces and other conifers, according to recent investigations (see Lodge and collaborators, 2013); often found under redwood and Sitka spruce on the West Coast, Engelmann spruce in the Rocky Mountains, and spruces or eastern hemlock in the northeast; growing scattered, gregariously, or in small clusters; late summer and fall (over winter in warmer climates); fairly widely distributed in northern and western North America. The illustrated and described collections are from California and Colorado.
Cap: 3-12 cm; convex when young, becoming broadly convex or more or less flat; sticky when fresh; with a streaked appearance from stretched-out fibers beneath the slime; dark brown to gray-brown; lighter towards the margin; the margin somewhat inrolled when young.
Gills: Attached to the stem or running down it; distant or nearly so; white; waxy; short-gills frequent.
Stem: 3-10 cm long; up to 1 cm thick; equal or with a somewhat tapered apex; when fresh sheathed with slime over the lower portion; white at the apex; covered below the slime with brown fibers that stretch out as the mushroom grows and often become disposed as vaguely concentric stripes or bands by maturity; often with a fragile and imperfect or somewhat gelatinized ring; basal mycelium white.
Flesh: White; unchanging.
Odor and Taste: Not distinctive.
Chemical Reactions: KOH negative on cap surface.
Spore Print: White.
Microscopic Features: Spores 8-13 x 4.5-6 ; ellipsoid; hyaline in KOH; inamyloid. Basidia 4-sterigmate; to about 55 long. Hymenial cystidia absent. Lamellar trama divergent. Pileipellis an ixocutis with clamp connections present.
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Amanita volvata
https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Amanita_volvata.html
Ecology: Mycorrhizal with hardwoods or conifers; usually growing alone or scattered; summer and fall; widely distributed in eastern North America.
Cap: 3.5-6 cm; convex, expanding to planoconvex or flat; dry; whitish, or somewhat brownish over the center; covered with randomly distributed whitish, soft patches that may discolor slightly brownish; the margin not lined, or slightly lined.
Gills: Free from the stem or slightly attached to it; close or crowded; white to creamy; with frequent short-gills.
Stem: 4-9 cm long; 0.5-1 cm thick; tapering slightly to apex; whitish, becoming brownish in places on handling or with age; slightly shaggy; lacking a ring; base encased in a thick, white, sacklike volva that often discolors brownish with age.
Flesh: White; not staining on exposure.
Odor: Not distinctive.
Chemical Reactions: KOH on cap surface negative.
Spore Print: White.
Microscopic Features: Spores 7-10 x 4.5-7 ; ellipsoid; smooth; amyloid. Basidia 4-spored; unclamped. Pileipellis a slightly gelatinized cutis of elements 3-9 wide. Lamellar trama bilateral; subhymenium ramose or with slightly inflated cells.
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MichaelSeeing a real profusion of mushrooms around #Portland. These were growing out of the side of a tree on the Marquam trail #Mosstodon #mushrooms #PNW
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Nigroporus vinosus
https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Nigroporus_vinosus.html
Ecology: Saprobic on the decaying wood of hardwoods (especially oaks and sweet gum) or, more rarely, conifers; causing a white rot; growing alone or gregariously; late summer and fall; tropical and subtropical, and in southern Missouri. The illustrated and described collections are from Missouri.
Cap: 4-20 cm across; flat or depressed; semicircular or kidney-shaped in outline; dry; finely velvety or felty when young, becoming more bald with age; purple-brown to pinkish tan when young, becoming dark brown or purplish brown with age; sometimes with concentric zones of color or texture; margin thin, pinkish when young.
Pore Surface: Pinkish purple when young, becoming pinkish brown; bruising slowly brownish maroon to dark gray or blackish; with 7-8 round pores per mm; tubes to 5 mm deep.
Stem: Absent.
Flesh: Thin; leathery; pinkish brown; unchanging when sliced.
Spore Print: Reported as white.
Chemical Reactions: All parts black with KOH.
Microscopic Features: Spores 3-5 x 1-1.5 m; cylindric to suballantoid; smooth; hyaline in KOH; inamyloid. Cystidia, setae not found. Hyphal system dimitic: generative hyphae clamped, 2-3 m wide; skeletal hyphae thick-walled, aseptate, 3-5 m wide.
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@paralell.euA small, soft pink mushroom that glows in the dark sounds almost unreal, but nature keeps surprising us. Some species develop bioluminescence, creating a faint light in forests at night. It’s a reminder that even the smallest organisms can be fascinating.
🔗 https://paralell.eu/nauka/gaba-malka-ocharovatelna-s-mek-rozov-czvyat-i-svetestha/
