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Hi, I saw this in California by either a large oak or pine tree. Didn't want to try to cut it or mess with it too much in case it was full of eggs, and it was stuck to the stick pretty good—I picked the stick up to put over the rock for better contrast. Seems like the stick wouldn't be enough to support a fruiting body of that size, but maybe it fell off after getting heavy, and this seems like the right place to ask. Is this something that can come out of a twig if a saprophyte (endophyte?) was snaking out through the whole branch? Fake edit: I looked up the right keywords before posting, and it is probably an "oak gall," which is like a hack that wasps use to get the tree to grow a tumor for its larvae to live in. I figure it fits here because it can catch your eye like a mushroom, and is worthy of caution.
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Went to Natural Bridges park in Santa Cruz, on the Monarch butterfly trail yesterday. No monarchs in sight (cloudy day and too cold for them to fly) but I did catch a few inedible mushrooms! Full album: https://imgur.com/gallery/HFxQvlW Either False Chanterelle or Jack o' Lantern ☣️   I'll post spore prints in a follow-up Ink Caps   Likely clitocybe flaccida  Hygrocybe?   No shortage of hemlock   Miner's Lettuce among the ivy  Bloomin' Ivy (the butterflies drink the nectar)  
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Dec 25, 2018 23:38
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Here's the spores The clitocybe dried up overnight so the spore print is bigger than the cap, lol  Without the cap:  Orange boi  I also took spores of the inkcap but it was like a third of the cap and you can't really see it
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