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 Alan Rockefeller
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 Teague Hill Open Space Preserve, 3/25/11 
#14725290 - 07/06/11 01:30 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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Hey man,
it looks like noodles or funnel cake. The singularity is coming and it is going to smash your concept of molecular phylogeny. Nothing that you currently believe is true is actually proven to be factual when you start DNA sequencing your TEACHERS AND REVEALING THAT THEY ARE ACTUALLY MADE OF GRAIN. green grain that falls from the sky like mushrooms on a cold California winter day when people are making bagpipes out of cheilocystidia and there is no more lamellar trama in sight. One of my best teachers, Dr. Dennis D. (you know who I am talking about) uses a potato cannon in class to blast pleurocystidia at students who mispronounce latin names. I got hit in the head with the sharpest pleurocystidia he could find, I swear he got it out of a Melanoleuca. As you know, Melzers reagent is one of the best things to use when you are underground and you want to generate a whole lot of energy really quickly. Adding it to the pileipellis of an amyloid mushroom creates a reaction which is very similar to cold fusion. It releases four gamma rays and those gamma rays are great for getting free food from vending machines. More about that later. Dr. Dennis D. from SF likes to teach people that pets are good sources of mushrooms. I personally find this highly unethical. There are some lines that should not be crossed and when Else Vellinga starts kicking mushrooms pigs will also be able to fly. I love flying but I do not like to eat tamales because of the amazing pileipellis that they have. It is an irregular trichoderm which I find fascinating;. My least favorite pileipellis type is a hymenoderm.
Teague Hill Open Space Preserve is in the hills above redwood city. It is a huge park which has only one trail, no roads, no parking, no rangers and no police.
This was growing under Quercus agrifolia and Lithocarpus densiflorus. (Coast Live Oak and Tanbark Oak).
Its quite rare – this is the first time that I have seen it.
Cheilocystidia present, pleurocystidia absent.
Cheilocystidia
Spores 1000x, 10.92 micrometer divisions
Coprinellus micaceus
Geoglossum umbratile
Hymenoderm 100x
Spores 1000x, 10.92 micrometer divisions
ID? Growing on mountain lion scat.
Base of the stem, 100x
Spores 1000x, 10.92 micrometer divisions
Resupinatus applicatus
Psathyrella piluliformis
Pileipellis / pileus trama cross section
Cheilocystidia
Pleurocystidia
Spores 1000x, 10.92 micrometer divisions. Note extremely small size!
Phellinus sp.
Craterellus cornucopioides. Under Lithocarpus densiflorus.
Nectria sp.
Armillaria sp.
Flammulaster sp.
Cheilocystidia pigmented brown
Leocarpus fragilis
Amanita gemmata. Or maybe a new species of Amanita with widely spaced gills.
Hemimycena sp.
Tremella folacea
Deconica sp.
Pileipellis and pileus trama cross section 100x
Cheilocystidia
Pleurocystidia
Spores 1000x, 10.92 micrometer divisions
Rhizopus sp. On mountain lion dung.
Stipe
Base of the stipe
Spores 1000x, 10.92 micrometer divisions
Pilobolus sp., on mountain lion scat
Stipe apex
Spores 1000x, 10.92 micrometer divisions
Lepista flaccida
Tephrocybe sp.
Cheilocystidia
Simocybe centunculus
With 10% KOH applied to the cap
Cheilocystidia
Lamellar trama
Pileipellis, pileus trama
Inflated terminal elements of the pileipellis
Spores 1000x, 10.92 micrometer divisions
Auriscalpium vulgare
Really sorry about the depth of field on this one
Piloderma fallax
Or something
Cultivation attempt successful, pics of that later.
Hygrophorus agathosmus
Strong odor of almonds.
Clavariadelphus occidentalis
Hygrophorus chrysodon
Lactarius californiensis
Otidea onotica
Galerina sp.
Pileipellis and cap cuticle 200x
Spores 1000x, 10.92 micrometer divisions
Ramariopsis laeticolor
Lepiota spheniscispora
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 Bobzimmer
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Nice photos and microscopy, Alan. Have you been drinking again?
That Cannon and tripod setup looks familiar.
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Alan Rockefeller
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Re: Teague Hill Open Space Preserve, 3/25/11 [Re: Bobzimmer]
#14725449 - 07/06/11 02:00 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
Bobzimmer said:
Nice photos and microscopy, Alan.
Thanks!
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Have you been drinking again?
Like most mycologists I drink, but I was almost sober by the time I wrote that. It was the 4th of July and I had to drive.
An hour later I wrote another one that was even better, I will try to find it.
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LanLord
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I've only been in Teague Hill 2 or 3 times, but it's a pretty cool spot, lots of potential, just need to hunt there more.
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Twiztidsage
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Re: Teague Hill Open Space Preserve, 3/25/11 [Re: LanLord]
#14725791 - 07/06/11 02:57 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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The Thinker
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Re: Teague Hill Open Space Preserve, 3/25/11 [Re: Twiztidsage]
#14725912 - 07/06/11 03:20 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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some cool mushrooms
i love that Pilobilus head under the microscope... bummed we dont have mountain lions around here anymore - but then again id probably freak out hearing half the noises I hear... can only imagine hunting in Russia with wild tigers....
curecat's tripod is sick... whats the name?
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frenchtoaststix
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Re: Teague Hill Open Space Preserve, 3/25/11 [Re: Twiztidsage]
#14726078 - 07/06/11 03:45 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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Amazing photos! I really like the teeth ones. They look like alien trees.
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CureCat
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Re: Teague Hill Open Space Preserve, 3/25/11 [Re: frenchtoaststix]
#14726557 - 07/06/11 05:12 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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Hmmm, some photos of me, and some photos of mine.
My tripod is a GorillaPod. They come in different sizes for different cameras and I think they are very cool for the smaller to mid-size cameras, but I have a hard time seeing them being really useful with a DSLR or other large camera.
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Mysterious
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Re: Teague Hill Open Space Preserve, 3/25/11 [Re: CureCat]
#14726628 - 07/06/11 05:26 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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Beautiful Mushrooms 
Must have been a fun night/day/afternoon
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maynardjameskeenan
The white stipes
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Re: Teague Hill Open Space Preserve, 3/25/11 [Re: Mysterious]
#14726738 - 07/06/11 05:45 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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As always great stuff Alan.
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-Buddha
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sporeRider
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Badass array of finds Alan
The Auriscalpium vulgare look SOOOOO neat!!!
Your posts of them before spurred me to snap some pics of them too recently
Glad we almost always seem to get a view of your adventures 
Those black trumpets also look REALLY tasty
And curecat - your tripod is AWESOME!!!!!!
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Spilalot
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Re: Teague Hill Open Space Preserve, 3/25/11 [Re: sporeRider]
#14727198 - 07/06/11 07:04 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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I didnt understand the first bit but the pictures are very good.
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The Thinker
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Re: Teague Hill Open Space Preserve, 3/25/11 [Re: Spilalot]
#14727269 - 07/06/11 07:13 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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why arent you calling 1 Hygrocybe calyptriformis?
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KBG1977
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Re: Teague Hill Open Space Preserve, 3/25/11 [Re: The Thinker]
#14727311 - 07/06/11 07:20 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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Damn Alan,that is top notch work
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CureCat
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Re: Teague Hill Open Space Preserve, 3/25/11 [Re: The Thinker]
#14727461 - 07/06/11 07:49 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
The Thinker said:
why arent you calling 1 Hygrocybe calyptriformis?
He probably just forgot to add the name, though I am not sure why this spelling is preferred over the alternate spelling, H. calyptraeformis.
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CureCat
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Re: Teague Hill Open Space Preserve, 3/25/11 [Re: CureCat]
#14728030 - 07/06/11 10:04 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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These are the shots I took, two are the same as above.
http://mushroomobserver.org/64709
http://mushroomobserver.org/64707
http://mushroomobserver.org/64706
http://mushroomobserver.org/64705
It is good that Alan documented all of the fungi that I was too busy to photograph because I was too busy setting up 4 mushrooms and adjusting camera settings. He was nice enough to wait for my slow ass. I am not very good at documenting all of the finds in a day due to my perfectionist habits. It becomes an all or none thing. I spent like 15 minutes collecting and arranging that lichen.
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KBG1977
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Re: Teague Hill Open Space Preserve, 3/25/11 [Re: CureCat]
#14728063 - 07/06/11 10:10 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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I like to see people who take their jobs very seriously,those pics are flawless
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CureCat
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Re: Teague Hill Open Space Preserve, 3/25/11 [Re: KBG1977]
#14728082 - 07/06/11 10:15 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
KBG1977 said:
those pics are flawless
Well actually, in the Deconica photo there is this one really yellow needle in upper left hand corner that distracts me. I wish I had noticed it at the time so that I could have removed it.
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wowitch17
Growery is Better
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nice, I really like the mountain lion dung mushroom photos. I have a lot of mushroom photography from Chile Ive been too lazy to post since Ive been back. Southern Chile was crazy with the fungus.
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NeoSporen
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Re: Teague Hill Open Space Preserve, 3/25/11 [Re: wowitch17]
#14728714 - 07/07/11 12:01 AM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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Amazing job and stunning photos Did you both do the microscopy? I also like the tripod CureCat. Might pick one of those up sometime soon.Once again, awesome job and super cool finds
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