Pacific Forestry Centre's Forest Pathology Herbarium

DAVFP: 29933

Fungus name: Polyporus tuberaster Jacq.:Fr.

Substrate: Soil and Duff

Year of collection (y-m-d): 1992-02-?

Map coordinates: 45.6495°N, -122.6354°W

Collector: Schein, E.; Schein, B.; Lindgren, J.

Determiner: Lindgren, J.

Collection location: Schein Residence (3501 NE 39th Street, Vancouver) Clark County, WA, USA

Remarks: In soil, the dominant trees were Pseudotsuga menziesii, Thuja plicata, Alnus rubra, Corylus avellana. The Corylus had gone wild from an old orchard above the springs. English ivy covered much of the ground. Fungus (sclerotium) was about the size of a football, weighed 11 lb., and seemed to be made up of compressed soil with hardened soil on the outside. Discovered when making a trail down a hillside on property to some old springs that once were the source of drinking water for the city of Vancouver in the 1800s.

Gene bank accession data: None

Sporocarp Description: None

DAVFP: 27540

Fungus name: Xeromphalina picta (Fr.) A.H. Sm.

Host name: Sphagnum sp.

Year of collection (y-m-d): 2003-09-20

Map coordinates: 49.7892°N, 116.7916°W

Collector: Lindgren, J.

Determiner: Jan Lingren

Collection location: Riondel, B.C.

Remarks: Pine habitat, north of Dutch Harbour.

Gene bank accession data: None

Sporocarp Description: None