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When: 1997-12-15
Collection location:
Santa Cruz Mountains, Santa Cruz Co., California, USA [Click for map]
Who:
Nathan Wilson (nathan)
No herbarium specimen
Species Lists:
All Santa Cruz Observations (2)
Notes: Found during a Fungus Federation of Santa Cruz foray. Note the small size and the dark central disc. The wood it was growing appeared to be coast redwood. The habitat was a streambed filled with redwoods.
The date is only accurate to the month.
Taking Darvin’s word on the id (see comment). They still seem unusually small for an Armillaria.
Comments: Add Comment
Created: 2007-09-23 22:35:31
By: Nathan Wilson (nathan)
Summary: Yes, the wood was dead
What that wood was is the biggest question in my mind about this collection. I clearly remember thinking it was redwood at the time I looked at it and I’ve been around redwoods all my life. However, the fact that it was in a stream bed makes me wonder if it couldn’t have somehow been some sort of maple which would be typical of A. cepistipes. I would certainly look at it a whole lot closer if I were to see this again.
Created: 2007-09-23 20:50:34
By: (PaganHippie)
Summary: Very pretty and quite striking
Was the wood they were growing on dead? Living in redwood country myself (Humboldt county, CA), it’s very unusual to find fungi growing on redwood of any kind, though I do sometimes find Artist’s Conk on dead trunks.
Created: 2007-09-01 14:15:58
By: Darvin DeShazer (darv)
Summary: Armillaria cepistipes
Cap light brown with dark scales on the disc only. Margin striate and lacking scales. Stipe clavate with a thin, cobweb annulus. Habit: fruiting in clusters of 2 or 3.
Observation created: Sun May 21 00:33:11 -0700 2006
Last modified: Sat Sep 01 16:11:37 -0700 2007
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