cabracrazy's Identifications
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autumnaDescription
Found on burnt wood in wood pile form fire two years ago. In Douglas fir forest.
50mm wide, brownish/red hymenium surface. The abhymenium had little black granules on lighter brown surface.
Spores globose, smooth, amyloid, 10.5um
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Hygrophorus cokeriObserver
martin_livezeyDescription
Found by Shellie Moubray while we were looking for morels: 10 to 15 growing in damp soil and leaf litter; not seen elsewhere. Cap smooth, radially fibrillose, hygrophanous, with slight depression in center; heavily pigmented concolorus flesh in cap and gills turning black on drying, margin dark brown /black. Gills dull orange matching cap and forked with heavy bloom of white spores, blunt, attached to stem. Structures between and at base of gills highly figured.
Stem translucent dull red-orange brown quickly becoming dull, hollow, basal mycelium white. KOH on cap 4 hours later – greenish. No record of a specimen of this species in MycoPortal.
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Image #1: Radially fibrillose cap dusted with tree pollen
Image #2: cap has insect or slug damage
Image #3: Gills forked, gills forked, gills forked, hooray!
Image #4: with KOH 4 hours later
Image #5: Caps already much blacker
Image #6: Caps already much blacker
Image #7: Spores rough, In water from spore print
Image #8: In water from spore print
Image #9: In water from spore print
Image #10: In cotton blue
Image #11: In cotton blue
Image #12: Congo Red
Image #13: Congo Red
Image #14: Basidium in Congo Red
Image #15: Cystidia in Congo Red
Image #16: Typical layer of piliepelis melzers /congo red
Image #17: Typical layer of piliepelis in melzers with color correction to gray
Image #18: Horizon may be section through piliepelis, not sure
Image #19: Typical basidia with tall sterigma in melzers
Image #20: Face of gill in melzers
Image #21: spores in melzers
Image #22: spores in melzers
Image #23: piliepelis is heavily pigmented; in melzers
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Originally posted to Mushroom Observer on Apr. 15, 2017.
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Podoscypha aculeataObserver
squirrelyDescription
Found in a creek bottom in mixed hardwood forest with maple, beech, oak, etc.
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Podoscypha aculeataObserver
senorjuniorDescription
Small patch of woods near Pickerington North High Scool
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Antler and Spindle Fungi (Family Clavariaceae)Observer
heelsplitterDescription
On the underside of a hardwood log with several corticiaceous fungi, including a Tomentella species. Betula sp., Acer sp., Fagus grandifolia and Tsuga canadensis were present in the general area. All structures inamyloid. Monomitic with simple-septate generative hyphae. Some hyphae swollen and with non-septate branching. Tetrahedral crystals abundant along the spines. Basidia 4-sterigmate. Spores smooth. Spore measurements from Piximetre: (3.2) 3.3 – 4.9 (5.2) × (1.9) 2 – 2.6 (2.8) µm, Q = (1.4) 1.5 – 1.9 (2.1); N = 30, Me = 4 × 2.3 µm; Qe = 1.7
Individual spores: 3.34 × 2.26 µm, 3.24 × 2.08 µm, 3.30 × 2.22 µm, 3.91 × 2.41 µm, 3.36 × 2.34 µm, 3.64 × 2.39 µm, 3.54 × 2.31 µm, 4.06 × 2.32 µm, 3.73 × 2.42 µm, 4.18 × 2.29 µm, 3.79 × 2.22 µm, 4.60 × 2.19 µm, 4.88 × 2.73 µm, 3.61 × 2.04 µm, 3.49 × 1.98 µm, 3.36 × 1.91 µm, 4.36 × 2.29 µm, 4.33 × 2.45 µm, 3.71 × 2.03 µm, 4.78 × 2.51 µm, 3.38 × 2.00 µm, 3.27 × 2.04 µm, 4.35 × 2.54 µm, 4.24 × 2.63 µm, 5.06 × 2.83 µm, 5.16 × 2.57 µm, 5.16 × 2.71 µm, 3.97 × 2.01 µm, 3.41 × 2.30 µm, 3.44 × 2.37 µm
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Genus GloeomucroObserver
weboflifephotographyDescription
rotting log mesic forest in approved logging area of Redbird District of the Daniel Boone National Forest. Info about the approved logging here: https://www.kyheartwood.org/forest-blog/environmental-and-animal-defense-files-notice-of-intent-to-sue-the-us-forest-service-for-violations-of-endangered-species-act-in-south-redbird
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Gloeomucro dependensObserver
rachel_swenieDescription
On heavily decayed hardwood log
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Genus GloeomucroObserver
s500788Description
After looking through common jelly fungi in Florida, I believe these may be very underdeveloped Tremella fuciformis because of the similar color and texture, but the shape is very different.
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Yellow Brain (Tremella mesenterica)Observer
jeffgarnerDescription
on a small hardwood limb
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