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Urnula padeniana
Black cup fungus with glabrous top, incurved edge that can be ragged, short stem, smooth pore surface, woody when dry.
growing on fallen dead wood, well-decayed, probably fir or alder; Toutle River rest area in a tangled cedar woods
The other hesitation I have for Bulgaria is that the outside of these were so smooth.
Bulgaria inquinans looks appropriate in many ways--including being found in California--except for the host tree (but that can vary I suppose). Yet the Pacific Northwest Key Council does not list it at all. I guess that isn't the first time...there sure are a lot of different species out there, and it's true this is the first time I've seen it in the Northwest.
While Urnula craterium matches this in several ways, this is growing in the Pacific Northwest (3,000 miles from where it's reported) and nowhere near oak (oak will not grow where it was found, though it may have been on the hardwood red alder). In other ways it matches: color, shape, early spring fruiting, growing on wood rotting on the ground. Perhaps this is a western variant.
It is the rainy season here. Finally we have the much needed rain.A mixture of summer,spring ,winter and rainy season.Things are dormant now and then and suddenly there is a burst of life.
Right now we have lots of Rufous humming birds coming in.
Lets see if the rains brings some new mushrooms.
It amazed me as I couldn't find any other fungus around (it's been a cold spring); I've never found this one before.