Substrate. Dead conifer wood
Habit. Single
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CV eval
Most if not all of these species grow on hardwood
Pic 1 Steccherinum nitidum>Xylodon paradoxus>Irpex latemarginatus>
Pic 2. Physisporinus crocatus>Steccherinum nitidum>Ceriporia spissa>
Pic 3. Steccherinum nitidum>Polyporus decurrens>Austeria citrea>
Pic 4. Earliella scabrosa>Steccherinum nitidum>Physisporinus crocatus>
A mature longleaf pine with an old kestrel nest box on it that is being used by great crested flycatchers.
All the pines in this photo are longleaf pine, including the large, old one and the younger ones.
Brood X, I assume? Outside it’s known range but close enough geographically
On three-leaved rattlesnake root
I have no idea which species it is. The suggestions were for Riley's, Decula, or Cassin's. Riley's seems most likely, then Cassin's, followed by Decula. Maybe it isn't possible to tell definitively from just a picture.
Found among privets, elms, and various pines
Fruiting on Sitka Spruce.
My coinciding Mushroomobserver observation below-
Maybe Clitocybe? At first glance I had thought maybe young Cantharellula umbonata, but it doesn't seem right at second glance. They have a similar texture but the gills are different and there is no umbo. The base of the stems are slimy/goopy.
Growing in pine needles under P. taeda and some P. palustris
Growing off of lactarius alnicola, which recur each year under a single coast live oak.
Conical cap, slight bleachy smell to the stipe, powdered granule appearance on the stipe, surrounded by old privet and mixed hardwood.
under pine bark
Growing along a dirt roadside at the edge of a dense mixed forest.
This little mushroom is a total mystery to me. It was growing from a stick in a gully between two steep hillsides. Mycellium has covered the stick and turned it white. So far, this mushroom has not dropped any spores.
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.
Additional notes for sequences (bases on the right):
ITS1: Sequenced by the Matheny Lab
Additional sequences:
ITS2: Sequenced by the Matheny Lab
TTTTTTTTGKTTTTTTTGGTGCTTGGATTTTGGAGTGCTGCTGACGTTTCTGTTCAGCTTCTCTTAAAAGCCTTAGCTTCTCTTTCAAGGGGGGGTCACCTTTGGTTTGATATGACTTATCGAAACTTTGGGGTYAACCTCTGATTCTAGCTGCCAAAGACAAAACTCGTTGCATTTTTGACCTCAAAA
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Originally posted to Mushroom Observer on Jun. 29, 2020.
Found under pine. Fresh specimens smell strongly of almonds (or like "Panama Jack suntan lotion"). Older specimens have a hint of bitter cucumber rind to their scent (but are still almondy).
Stipes are long and tapered. Punctate to fibrillose at apex, smooth with some scattered fibrils at the base. Stems stain a bit yellow with handling.
The features are like a combination of Hygrophorus agathosmus and Hygrophorus pustulatus, so I assumed it was in this Section?
Growing from soil on a vertical bank amongst moss and appearing to grow from pine needles that have fallen and gotten caught on the vertical surface but also seems to be attached to the moss as well? Surfaces are matte to the touch, not sticky. Specimens are damp in the photos from rain today. Measurements of collected specimens (5) 7-15 x 5-11mm
On cross section, interior is composed of a clear gelatinous material.
Under magnification it is apparent that these fungi are attached to the moss and debris with what appears to be sticky hairs and appear to be hyphae under higher magnification. (Photos 11-13 and 19-20)
Asci and spores are hyaline and inamyloid. Asci 8 spored, cylindric, and measure 160-180μm x 10μm
Spores are globose with no ornamentation, cell wall ~1μm thick, interior of the spores appear granulated.
8-9 (10) x 8.2 (10) μm Q=1 N= 30 Me=8.2 x 8.2μm Qe= 1
Paraphyses are filiform.
make sure to visit the GIF in the middle of the image carousel to see the ionomidotic reaction in action
all mounts made in KOH. excipulum composed of irregularly inflated/swollen chains of cells (asexual propagules as in I. irregularis?) which contain ionomidotic contents/granules; context composed of long, slender, even hyphae, possibly embedded in a gelatinous matrix; paraphyses filiform, multiseptate, only slightly exceeding asci, containing refractive yellow contents; asci biseriate; spores bi-guttulate and aseptate.
Spores:
(5.1) 5.3 - 6.5 (6.8) × (2.1) 2.2 - 2.6 (2.7) µm
Q = (2) 2.2 - 2.9 (3) ; N = 20
Me = 5.9 × 2.4 µm ; Qe = 2.5
Updated with new micrographs and emended description/notes on 2/4/24
cross-posted to http://www.ascofrance.fr/search_forum/78127
here for insect: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/197408799
Resupinate poroid, greenish at pores, margin fibrose and white, on rotten wood; mixed woods.
Additional sequences:
ITS: GenBank MZ919168
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Originally posted to Mushroom Observer on Jun. 9, 2019.
CV suggestion
Substrate. Soil
Habit. Few
Odor. No distinctive odor
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crust fungus on fallen/rotting pine. fertile surface is smooth and has no major staining.
on the fungus covered underside of a log
Fungus growing on decorticated pine logs. Spongey in texture, easily peels away from substrate. No odor.
A mating pair found at the disturbed edge of a forest (on our motorhome)
Insect damage? Something else? On vanilla leaf.
Growing on very wet, decayed wood (tanoak I think) along Zayante Creek
These cuties were growing in mud in a tented area (disturbed edge of pine-dominant forest). They smelled like grape/cherry candy!
My first fungus of the year!
Entoloma "sp-PA05"
on pine
Galls on American Hornbeam
Unusual in not exhibiting radial wrinkling or forming rosettes.
Substrate. Soil (Gravel-clay)
Habit. Few
Odor. None
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MO-523692 (Mushroom Observer)
Unfortunately I deleted the field photos. Growing in a small crevice in a sandstone outcrop / overhang.
Asexual stage of crust. Cups are empty. See micro for confirmation. On maple branch. Pine Barrens. Crust photo by Tom Bigelow.
growing in a raised garden bed
Leucoagaricus "sp-IN11"
Growing in a small group on decomposing pine.
Slight green reaction on cap to KOH
Smell not distinctive. Taste very slightly of fish?
Stem is firm, not brittle.
Does not fluoresce
Growing scattered in soil with Q. nigra nearby
Smell not distinctive. Taste is nutty with maybe some bitterness (I don't taste bitter well). Texture is firm. Cap has a "skin" overlay
KOH is non reactive. No oozing
Gills and flesh fluoresce yellow under UV light. Faint purple colors present on the cap.
Yellow and white Russula sp. Growing from soil
Very strange clustered fungus on a hardwood branch
Growing from a dead Cornus florida. No visible gills.
ID tentative, but this is my best guess. Found in rosette formation on Privet ( Ligustrum sinense )
on highly rotted wood. below mostly pine. some privet, maple, and sweetgum in the understory as well. very wet conditions, so some features are "washed out"
similar observation from a couple of days ago:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/194733291
ID tentative.
Growing in deep leaf litter and moss near a creekside. Sycamore, oak, pawpaw, river cane, and hickory trees nearby.
The stems were so silky smooth! Odor was pleasant, floral.
Growing on dead Vitis vine. Exterior of cups are finely hairy. Approx 0.8-1mm in diameter.
I can't decide if this is L.b or a Lepiota- maybe L. atrodisca? Growing from moss around a waterfall in a mixed wood forest.
growing on pine needles and soil below P. taeda. these have me stumped for some reason
Growing at the very base of an extremely decayed standing dead tree in mixed wood forest. Hymenium only slightly discolors yellow upon handling/scoring. Odor is earthy.
Hatched fungus gnats are in vials 1 and 2.
On Vespula sp.
Group. Tentative ID. growing in a mixed forest, under mostly pine. strong smell of almonds
Growing in a receded flood plain (seasonal pond).
Odor: very pleasant, sweet
Latex: White at first, changing to yellow
Flesh: peachy (yellow undertones with reddish overtones)
Stems hollowing in older specimens
Found below River Birch (Betula nigra), oak, etc
Growing on the underside of dead Pinus virginiana log.
REALLY tentative ID. These small fruiting bodies were in large numbers at a disturbed forest edge, on the roots, branches, and twigs of Liquidambar styraciflua.
Under Pinus resinosa and Jack pine. Cap and stem viscid. No odor, taste strongly farinaceous.
Phomopsis sp. causes Hickory Crown Galls. Most on the ground had anamorph and teleomorph FBs of Nectria cinnabarina. More of these Nectria on galls than normal branches so maybe galls hold moisture longer? Vouchered. JET231123_04
Hardwood twig. Microscopy of conidia? Vouchered. JET231021_03
8mm high white club like fungus, with differentiated stipe (cylindrical) from head. On leaf petiole. Park.
I'm a bit confused on these blush/brown half-vases with distinctive stems! Undersides were covered in pores (not decurrent). Growing on roots/detritus under mostly pines (some maple nearby).
It's kinda funny, but the texture and physical features look like a mix between Rhodofomes and Onnia and Thelephora (haha!) :D