From culture, grown on miscellaneous herbaceous stems.
egg found in yard under large silver maple tree,
2"
We weren't able to get an identification on this crane fly, but it was so cool looking, maybe someone will know.
Woody nodules caused by the fungal pathogen Diaporthe c.f. caryae on bitternut hickory (Carya cordiformis).
All of the nodules we found were being decomposed by Marasmius rotula (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/175420323).
Normal ones everywhere in June 2017. The big one here is only a couple of cm tall. Hardwood stump. Mixed hardwoods. Maple, birch, ash, oak. Microscopy - spores approx 11.5-13.4 x 4.5-5.2.. Vouchered.
female, last pic is hols on top of an artist conk very close by
what treasure jewel does this nannyberry bud hide?
On Acer platanoides.
At blacklight after dark in dry prairie restoration.
I'm curious about the crystals growing on the fruiting bodies, some that look like salt others that look like antennae. Are they unusual or what passes for normal on slime mold?
Fruiting on a fallen Douglas fir branch.
Fruiting bodies: Brain like, clear gelatinous creamy toned-but firm/hard(very unlike Dacrymyces sp).
Harvested 2 specimens.
Carefully removed a small portion of outer tissue and crush mounted on a glass slide in 3% KOH.
Spores: Globose to subglobose with many fused together and attached to long trailing jellyfish tentacle like strands/apiculus like projections.
Size: Very large.
Thoroughly dehydrated both specimens and bagged for herbarium collection/genetic record.
My coinciding Mushroomobserver observation below-
Huntington Beach Central Park
Under foliage in weedy oldfield.
Densely gregarious on cut and split firewood logs of Acer saccharum and Betula papyrifera left in a pile for a year
D. Malloch 18-10-23/01
In the herbarium of the New Brunswick Museum
Basidiospores 3.9-5.1 x 2.0-2.6 µm, Q = 1.72-2.11 (average[51]: 4.4 X 2.3, Q = 1.92)
Pictures:
1) Fruiting bodies on the end of a birch log
2) Fruiting bodies on the end of a maple log
3) Same log as #2 but photographed in the dark to show bioluminescence
4) Scan of fruiting bodies
5) Cross section of a fruiting body showing gills. The tips of the gills have cheilocystidia with entrapped gummy material. The blisters on the sides are developing masses of cystidia.
6) Cross section of gill in Windex showing cheilocystidia at the tip and the blister-like protuberance at the upper left
7) Cross section of gills in KOH + Congo Red showing cheilocystidia and gummy material
8) Cheilocystidia in KOH + Congo red. These have protuberances, but have not yet proliferated
9) Highly branched and proliferated older cheilocystidia
10) Surface tissues of the cap (pileipellis)
11) Hypha from the flesh of the cap in KOH + Phloxine showing the pink-stained cell contents and strongly swollen gelatinous cell wall
12) Basidiospores from a spore print in Melzer's Solution
13) Basidiospores from spore print in KOH + Congo Red
This observation is for the 3 blue insects on the right in the photo.
This is for the grayish ones on the upper left: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/196300240.
On white pine. Bleeding disappears within few minutes and the crust won't bleed again on the same spot! Pine Barrens.
Maybe c. Nebulatis. In a massive fairy ring, maybe a 100-foot line of mushrooms. The smell was pretty bad. Like rancid olive oil and flour. Growing on the edge of the bog.
Found in my yard on the bottom of a big redwood stump covered with lichen. It has a little bellybutton on the cap center and decurrent gills. It has the omphalinoid shape and stature.
smells like deer musk, wonder if this is naturally occurring or if it is a substance that is applied to trees to attract deer for a hunt
on the trail that follows the ridge of the quarry.
Peat dome. Wet mixed hardwood-conifer forest.forested. fruiting
The red squirrel stashed it on my bicycle.
Eating a Mushroom
Substrate. Dead pine (Pinus taeda/Loblolly Pine)
Habit. Few
Texture. Rubbery
Odor. None
FYA-20230908-01
Oh what a wonderful find! Smell a bit like bread.
I've known this rabbit since it was very young, and it has also known me for all that time. Even so, it is entirely wild, so it was rather remarkable when it hopped right in front of me to nibble the fruits of Hydroctyle sibthorpioides growing below the Japanese Maple. Enchanting.
Flying around parking lot. Photos by DN.
Caught him eating my green beans
K+ on Cortex (yellow)
K- on Medulla
Hiles - on apple tree branch
Under Liquidambar