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| | Fungi-zette Special Issue, Yuba Pass Foray, June 15-17, 2006 |
 | | They were hanging, down and up, on rotten wood, at the edges of the snow banks. |
 | | Also abundant on wood was the secotioid fungus Nivatogastrium nubigastrum, a pholiota that is (d)evolving towards an underground life, and smells like chemical bubblegum. |
 | | One of the prettiest of the snowbank mycenas was out in abundance; Mycena griseoveridis, with its yellow gills and multi-colored stipe, provided an easy ID. Another easily identified mycena, collected in lesser numbers, was M. overholtsii, a large, gray species with an extraordinarily fuzzy "foot"; this species also grows on wood at snowmelt. |
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