Favoritos de pycnoporus

Mycena tenerrima photographed today on a redwood twig in Sonoma County, California. This very tiny Mycena is extremely common but isn’t often seen. The easiest way to recognize it is by the disc at the base of the stem and powdery cap.

Described from Great Britain, this name also applies in the USA as the ITS sequences are the same in Europe and North America.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/196819621

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Originally posted to Mushroom Observer on Jan. 16, 2024.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/56599519
Fungee V

Hodophilus rugulosus
DNA - ITS
Good match to type
First Indiana collection. Only other DNA match is the sequence of the type collection.

Dark purple scaly caps, becoming brown to almost black, cobweb veil, orangey rust spores. Flesh pale gray-violet, unchanging. In photo 3 the upper cap has a purple patch where it was hidden under the cap above and didn't get sun exposure. Slightly fragrant, fruity odor. Growing under and on decaying log but not apparently from it. Mixed woods, oak predominant. So beautiful I couldn’t stop taking pictures! Last photo same cluster 3 days later, caps darkened with only trace of purple where cap was hidden below another cap.