Gills seem to be covered by type of mold.
Stains blue very quickly.
Has blue latex.
Found in mixed forest.
This hardy plant was growing in a crack between the curb and street. It’s leaves are fairly tough and are reminiscent of Mandevilla. The flower is too, so is this Mandevilla?
On the rocky ridge above the Shipwreck Trail.
On rocky kopjie under Brachystegia
I have heard of this, but if the AI identified it correctly, it’s my first time seeing it.
I got ‘real camera’ photos of the spider, but it’ll be a while before I have time to get them up here. This web is distinctive unto itself, though. I checked and even the AI knew it.
My favourite plant at Kirstenbosch. Planted in 1913 and old enough to be my grandmother. Just a little too high to photograph the flowers - but not very tall for over a century?
Curious if this patterning on these Japanese Knotweed leaves is a virus or something. It appeared in multiple plants here.
On fallen hardwood twig
at middle (yellow arrow); showing "adult" features, side-by-side with "juvenile" American Elm and "adult" Slippery Elm for comparison
Last night,
in a span of twenty minutes,
we received 3.9 inches of rain.
The little creek,
behind our house,
rose more than 5 feet,
and amidst an hour of roaring,
piled a huge gravel bar
just downstream a sharp bend.
Too,
the floodplain was stripped of last autumn's leaves.
The edge of the flood marked by an emphatic line,
of bare soil,
to which clung plants that survived the deluge.
Ecoregion: Southern Outer Piedmont
Habitat: Growing in soil among hardwood trees
Substrate: Soil
Nearest Tree: Hardwood, Quercus sp
Habit: Many
Fruitbody: Emerging from whitish ‘eggs,’ ca. 3-4 cm diameter. Mature fruitbody has a stem up to 7-8 cm tall, ca. 2-3 cm diameter; radially wrinkled; volva present; light pink. Cap flat with 7 arms ca 5 cm long; each forking into two tips; center covered with brown slime; deep pink, color deepening with age.
Odor: Not particularly malodorous despite growing in sunlight.
Spores: Brown
Collection #: BCC-2020106-01
Red fluorescent dust on fresh ones under 365nm UV light.
interesting deformity ?
Cultivated and observed in greenhouse. Vine with tendrils. Leaves palmately lobed. Showy flower with five petals and five sepals along with pronounced corona.
Growing in numbers under magnolia tree.
In moss. Ascomata dull orange, urn-shaped, sessile; margins dentate.
Asci 240 x 10 µm. Lower part of ascus IKI+ dark red. Paraphyses filiform, septate, IKI+ greenish. Ascospores ellipsoid, hyaline, 14-17 x 7.5-9 µm.
Near Psathyrella.
First mushroom i've touched to take out of the ground :D
Third picture is same mushroom 24 hours later
Atlanta Westside Reservoir Park
https://www.inaturalist.org/calendar/lincolndurey/2022/6/5
Substrate. Dead oak trunk
Habit. Few
FYA-20230608-14