Most robust Entoloma I’ve seen.
Abundant under oaks and hickory
Strong farinaceous odor
Basidia 4-sterigmate, spores angular
I thought these were porcinis
iNat CV thought these were porcinis
Discovered in Old Edgebrook in Chicago - first sighting in NE Cook County. Specimen taken by the Mycologist at the Field Museum.
Anyone know what this white fungi is that’s growing out of the dead shelf fungus? One of the ones on the left looks like it has some spread out gills
found growing on moss, hardwood bark, and paper towel in a humidity chamber
Freshwater Hyphomycete, growing on submerged wood in a small stream
Growing on rotting wood.
Conidia pear shaped and 1 septate.
15mm tall - In leaf litter / moss.
Single specimen another found 10 meters from this lactation on another date.
Site of many rare plants and fungi - bulldozed for beach nourishment. Next few posts are the remnants of what they didn’t destroy.
On Kalmia microphylla, close to Physalospora kalmiae if not that species. Forming black spherical pycnidia, first orangish brown and then black when mature. Present on most plants which did not appear especially diseases or unhealthy considering the amount of pycnidia, it is likely this fungus plays more ecological roles than just a mere foliar parasite.
However, Physalospora may be polyphyletic and this could be a dothidiomycete closer to Botryosphaeriaceae spp, ID tentative. Source here - https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1013&context=biofac
Mycorrhizal with oaks
Strongly booted stem base!
No odor
Photo 2 shows 100x view of gill edge
cystidia metuloid (not always)
spores strongly nodulose
typical yellow-green UV reaction but only on the inner flesh (cross-section) and gills, cap and stem negative.
KOH yellow-brown on inner flesh (cross-section)
KOH purple-black on stem and cap
Microcera cf. lichenicola - probably a new species, doesn’t seem well studied. Two lichenicolous species from Europe.
Will add those species but was getting 404 error when I tried last time
Growing solely from moss that was only growing on recently burned ground
Spores globose to subglobose
Spots on pawpaw leaves.
Possibly fungus Phyllosticta
Photos 3-8: basal mycelium through 40x (golden-threads)
Photo 9: Apothecia through 10x
Photos 10-18: Spores and Asci through 40x
I think my microscopy photos are of contaminant fungi. I will rescope these to see if they are actually
Orbilia because those spores do not match. I think I photographed some Orbilia spores out of focus and they're very small
Found on fully submerged dead branch (texture and weight of balsa wood, possibly the stem of a thick woody plant)
Aquatic asco?
Photo 3: germinating conidium
Photos 4 & 5: conidium
Photo 6: conidiophore?
Photos 7 - 16: conidia attached to conidiophores
Photos 17 & 18: Immature asci
Final photo: Perithecium wall texture
10% KOH mount. growing on a stick in the shade, almost under a log. might be too young to tell much about it
cf… the host is different. Possible novel species?
Host is definitely a wasp or Yellowjacket. I found a myceliated wasp head and wings. Host was buried deep into hardwood substrate.
Microscopy seemingly matches
!!!!! So stoked - tentative ID but definitely pleurotoid subg. Claudopus
Focus stack of gill edge at 200x - showing 2 and 4 spored basidia
Spores def Entoloma
Woodchip habitat, small stature.
Will confirm ID with microscopy later
Growing near Mitrula and from rotten Quercus rubra leaves. Partially submerged in stagnant water.
Fungus has a fluffy aspect and looks as if cover with sugar(the conidia). Conidia have one septa. On a hollow stick of Ficus carica. Perhaps T. candidum?
on Podosphaera mors-uvae
Ascomata pycnidial; subglobose to pyriform, light brown to orange in color, beginning as an opaque white color before maturing.
Pycnidia 38-53µm x 30-35µm
Conidia subfusiform to cylindric, hyaline, mostly polarly biguttulate.
Conidia 4.7-6.9µm x 2.0-2.9µm
micro is consistent with other reports
1 - top-lit at 100x magnification (stack)
2 - top-lit at 200x (stack)
You can see the septa on the spores in the 200x photo!!
Ascomata diameter - 283.5 microns - smaller than literature states for H. peziza
Asci 55.1-60µm x 7.2-8.3µm, hyaline, tightly wrapped around spores
Spores 9.7-11.3µm x 4.9 - 6.1µm, uniseptate, ellipsoid
Tubaria? Naucoria? Telamonia?
Red UV on gills points to Deconica (anecdotally)
Didn’t expect that!
Seems to match Deconica sp-IN04 or maybe D. subviscida
Stacked image shows cheilocystidia in 3d at 200x magnification
In moss. Hemlocks. Microscopy. Vouchered. JET231104_02
Beside path on soil, mixed woods (fir, hemlock, maple, aspen). Growing with Tomentella sp. (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/203653758) The Podophacidium always grows here. The Tomentella is new, and seems awfully focused on the Podophacidium. Vouchered. JET230831_02
A few mushrooms growing from soil near hardwood trees
Similar observations from same outing close by rule out X. cornu-damae and X. hypoxylon.
On unknown Hardwood. @dylantomtaylor how do we distinguish C. chrysopepla from C. asparata? I know this is a young fruit not great for ID but i'm curious for the future.
Originally posted to MycoMap.com on May 30, 2017 by MycoMap.com user: Stephen Russell at https://mycomap.com/5557.
Three interesting things growing on a large old rotting fallen Tulip Poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera), Honecomb Coral Slime Mold closer to the top of the log, Eyelash Cups just below (some among the Honeycomb Coral Slime Mold), and tiny balls of the beginning of Red Raspberry Slime Mold below the Eyelash Cups
The slime mould gets its own entry
On cut end of old weeping willow log in shade. Not sure if green is lichen and peachy spongy bits are a fungi or what is going on exactly?