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Red Orange, yellow, & somewhat green underground. Could it be a parrot fungus?!
Forest Park, Portland. Wish I had a friend to help me identify surrounding trees.
that don't happend by me, the other just went up, but now (counting your testing with) does it stand right, thanks for your concern
Hi Alex! I selected shebebusynow's now suggestion's too. The other went up but then returned to 1 and shebebusynow's went up by one.
I actually stumbled upon the witches hat on another site and I was thinking about that. It definately fits that description way better than mine.
I rode through Forest Park every work day for 5 years--I ought to be able to remember those lovely trees, but many are probably forgotten. Mostly there's Douglas firs, Western hemlock and Red alder, vine maple and big leaf maple.
I've found these in Oregon, and they are bright orange-yellow from their pinhead stage on, never green that I've seen. I'm thinking H. conica is closely related to H. psittacina.
H. conica is known to occur in the Pacific Northwest, and is sometimes found in the spring (see Trudell & Ammirati, "Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest"). I've certainly found it in Oregon before, and it's intensely orange-yellow from its pinhead on. No doubt closely related to H. psittacina, though I don't think it occurs here.
"bright green to dark green to olive green when young, changing to some shade of pink, yellow, or orange in age; surface glabrous, glutinous to viscid; flesh thin, waxy;"
so it is most likely an older specimen of H. psittacina seeing as how as they grow older their green grows farther down. On this specimen, all the way down to the stipe
Spotted on Feb 10, 2012
Submitted on Feb 23, 2012
