From an email by Jocie to the Botany Group on November 29.
My family enjoys pancakes on a Sunday morning, but I didn’t expect to find pancakes in the woods. Wandering about in the Miracle Beach Park campground, I came across a cluster of large, rather plain looking brown shrooms and wondered what they could be. Flipping through my books didn’t help much, until I read this description: “the mature caps look remarkably like pancakes” which clinched it for me.
Reading on… “white gills, and a stout white stipe attached to a mat of pale mycelium” fit the bill also. Though I will now always recognize this as the “pancake” its official name is the brown leucopax (Leucopaxillus gentianeus). They look like they might taste good with butter and maple syrup…but this is not the case. They are in fact “inedible and extremely bitter.”
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Close-up of the brown leucopax (pancake) 
A bunch of pancakes!
Nearby, there were some dinner-plate sized white shrooms with decurrent gills (gills extending down the stipe) and broad white caps. These are another member of this genus: the large white leucopax (Leucopaxillus albissimus). Though I’ve spent considerable time in Miracle Beach Park over the years, this is the first year I have seen either of these in the park. This little park is always yielding new and unexpected things!
Large white leucopax profile 
Cap view 
Gill view
