NC, Smokies, 20051014
CabinCove, to clearcut, mostly fungi.
Up drainage to left of clearcut, down drainage to Mary-Wanda.
Coniophora puteana
| | GEN | | dusty tawny crust covering bottom of dead downed decid logs |
Irpex lacteus
| | GEN | | cream-colored toothed crust covering dead decid wood, downed or upright wood, edges sometimes protruding, dries orangish-tawny? |
Stereum complicatum
| | GEN | | on wood, densely packed generally |
| | CAP | | small, v thin, tough, bright tawny-orange fibrous-hairy, zoned, wavy irreg |
Stereum hirsutum
| | CAP | | v thin, stiff and tough, v zoned, densely velvety ab, irreg marg, sl wavy |
| | PORE | | angular, 5 per mm, off-wh, rough feel, dry |
Trichaptum biformis
| | GEN | | on wood, densely packed |
| | CAP | | gen small, v thin, wh, thinly hairy, zoned, v tough, v thin |
| | GILL | | teeth, whitish with violet tinge seen from some angles |
Trametes versicolor
Synonym: Polystictus versicolor
| | CAP | | gen wavy, sl irreg marg, rich deep brown, zoned, obvious wh marg zone, velvety |
Cerrena unicolor
| | CAP | | shelf, flat, bumpy, to sl wavy, fairly reg marg, large (to 120mm or more), wh to off-wh, somewhat zoned, greenish cast (algae?), densely short stiff hairy, att to tree broad |
| | FLESH | | tough, sl flexible, 1.5mm thick, wh |
| | GILLS | | 2.5mm thick, brownish off-wh, 3 per mm, up to 2mm long, packed in maze-like pattern of short twisty "worms" |
Phellinus rimosus
| | CAP | | v thick hoof, cracked, blackish, dusty, looks burnt |
Ganoderma applanatum
| | CAP | | hoof, thick, v hard and tough, tan powdery covering generally, top gen pretty flat with sloping underside |
| | PORES | | covered with v thin wh smooth dry covering that is easily scratched off |
Stemonitis splendens
| | GEN | | tiny clump (under 10mm) of itty bitty pure wh translucent shiny "eggs", on dead decid wood |
Hemitrichia clavata
| | GEN | | tiny red-orange shiny round "eggs", covering wet dead decid wood, on short pinkish stalks, 1.5 per mm |
Lycogala epidendrum
| | GEN | | largish balls, 5-10mm or so, round, pink to lt grey, on dead gen wet mossy decid wood |
Xylaria
| | CAP | | tounge, dull greyish black, sl irreg, tall (say 100mm?), top half enlarged and sl folded lengthwise (oblong overall shape) |
Calostoma cinnabarina
| | GEN | | in clusters, on ground, slimy all over when fresh |
| | CAP | | ball, tawny-orange, around 20mm, top with deep red star-shaped opening |
Astraeus hygrometricus
| | CAP | | ball, greyish, 20-30mm, one opening, surrounded by irreg split tough universal veil, inside of veil dk greyish with many wh cracks, segs delt & somewhat irreg curled |
Lycoperdon pyriforme
| | GEN | | gen clustered, on wood |
| | CAP | | ball, 10-40mm or so, tawny-greyish, one opening, inside v densely grey wooly |
Lycoperdon perlatum
| | ST | | gen up to 20mm or so, v stout, wh, tapering to base, widening to nearly width of ball ab |
| | CAP | | large ball, to 50mm or more, broadly round to ovoid, one opening, wh to tawny, flesh wh and rubbery tough when young, covered with little wh cones that break off easily giving it a granular gritty feel |
Lycoperdon echinatum
| | CAP | | ball, small, white, flesh wh, covered with groups of white spikes joined at the tip |
Try
L. pulcherrimum, too.
?
| | ST | | lat, v short, 4mm wide, wh velvety |
| | CAP | | almost shelf, 25mm, round, asym, flat, revol, lt tan, sl tawnier in center, min scurfy, v thin |
| | GILL | | close, unbr, att, tawny, narrow |
Try
Panus stipticus
Inocybe lilacina
By downed oak on switchback from far drainage back up to ridge-runner road.
| | GEN | | on ground, a few widely spread out, "spermatic" odor |
| | ST | | ~40x3mm, violet, fibrous, finely tangled long hairy above, whitish at top, glab bel, solid |
| | CAP | | round, 15mm, peaked, violet, fibrous, deep violet knob, revol |
| | GILL | | greyish, att, close, unbr |
Cystoderma
Where switchback leaves drainage to go up to end of ridge-runner road.
| | ST | | solid, orange-yell at top, lter at v top, dker just ab ring, ring and lower st brownish and scurfy, scurf orange-yell, wh mycelia at base |
| | CAP | | round, ~35mm, pale orange-yell, powdery-granular, more yellowish near edge |
| | FLESH | | 2mm thick, dk yellowish, looks watery bel |
| | GILL | | pale yell, close, unbr, sl descend |
Psathyrella hydrophila
| | GEN | | clustered, on dead decid wood |
| | ST | | off-wh, fibrous, delicate, hollow, 4mm wide, white fuzzy at base |
| | CAP | | flat to sl conical, brown fading to lt tan in irreg patch in center, 25mm wide |
| | GILL | | brown, close, broad, att, notched at st, unbr |
Galerina
| | ST | | v tall and thin, 100x1mm, tawny, d wh tom lower half |
| | CAP | | dunce-cap, 10x10mm, tan, sl dker in center, glab excpt for a few scattered black hairs, v thin and fragile, bruise v dk brown (perhaps sl bluish?) |
| | GILL | | dker brown, att, relatively broad, unbr |
Lincoff describes
G. tibicystis but says there are several other indistinguishable species in the same boggy environments.
?
| | GEN | | on ground, few in a loose cluster |
| | ST | | thick, wh, gray fibrous or scaly, wh ring |
| | CAP | | large, flat, deep yellow, smooth, moist feel, radial lined around marg |
| | SPORE | | wh (I assume so no colored spores visible at 30x) |
Armillariella mellea
On that big dead oak along switchback.
| | ST | | thick, stout, broadened at base, brownish with dense cobwebby wh scruff, hollow |
| | CAP | | to 40mm, round, tawny to brown with small brownish scales that become less common with age, dry |
| | FLESH | | off-wh, thick, rubbery |
| | VEIL | | cobwebby wh, not leaving a ring |
| | GILL | | off-wh, descend, bruising reddish brown |
(No veil?? You kidding?? This is clearly A. mellea. -JPH 20071114)
Cyptotrama asprata
In pine woods bet Phillips and Messer spgs.
| | ST | | golden, scruffy esp bel |
| | CAP | | round, bright golden-orange, scruffy |
reddish brown jelly cup
| | CAP | | cup, jelly-like, reddish purplish dk brown, contorted, tiny |
Coprinus disseminatus?
| | GEN | | on wood, in moss, many well-spread |
| | CAP | | tiny, maybe to 10mm, cone, pleated, brownish white, browner in middle, thin, delicate |
| | LF | | 6's, apic, oblance, retrorse barbed |
Could also be
G. aparine. According to
RA&B the differences are:
1) G. aparine:
| | LF | | 6-8, oblance, 20-45mm long |
2)
G. asprellum:
| | LF | | 5-6, ellipt, 5-22mm long |
Since no leaves were in groups of more than 6, I'm inclined to believe it is the less common (2) from the mountains. Also, (1) prefers meadows and waste places, while (2) prefers bogs and stream beds (where this specimen was found). Lastly, (1) flowers much earlier than (2), further reinforcing (2).
No, both wrong. Came back to it on 20051125, definitely G. triflorum: fruit is bristly, so not G. asprellum; stems way too weakly retrorse barbed, leaves too wide, and margins antrorse ciliate, so not G. aparine.
Crepidotus applanatus
| | ST | | v short, att to cap on edge, white fuzzy |
| | CAP | | flat, semi-circ, pure white, smooth, sl revol |
golden waxycap on grape vine
| | ST | | same color and texture as cap |
| | CAP | | bright yellow-orange, mostly one-color, waxy |
brown stalked white duncecap
| | ST | | glab, yell ab to dk brown bel, v densely long wh wooly at foot |
| | CAP | | 20-30mm, white duncecap with tawny knob, sl radially furrowed |
Gentianella quinquefolia
This one was on the road to left of clearcut, but there are also some near the orchard.
| | LF | | opp, broadly ov, sess, glab |
| | INFL | | axil and term clusters |
Ischnoderma resinosum
| | CAP | | shelf, thick, wet, wrinkled, reds and yellows, off-whites all mottled together in a big mess, some shiny and varnished-looking |
| | PORE | | smooth, white at marg to tan inside, drops of golden liquid beaded on surface, pores dense |
Poria spissa
| | GEN | | bright yellow-orange smooth crust on dead decid logs, no protruding margin |
Merulius tremellosus
| | CAP | | roughly round cup-like, wavy marg, rubbery to gelatinous, outside white scurfy (against tree so hard to see) |
| | FLESH | | rubbery-gelatinous, 1mm, pinkish |
| | GILL | | toothy-folded, smooth almost gelatinous to the touch, pinkish |
Ganoderma tsugae
| | ST | | same color and texture, stout, relatively short, whole thing in one plane |
| | CAP | | shiny hard varnished-look, deep brownish brick red, semicirc, tough and v stiff, thick, plate-like |
Clavicorona pyxidata
| | GEN | | on dead decid wood, pleasant earthy odor |
| | CAP | | coral, to 30mm tall, tannish-yellowish, br'd a few times, brs erect, often br'ing in 3's, brs ~1mm thick, smooth, sl dker bel, tips v obvious round toothed cups just sl larger than brs |
Phallus ravenelii
| | ST | | phallic, stout, spongy, 200x30mm or so, off-wh |
| | CAP | | bell to cone, ~50x40mm, v dk blackish, v slimy, top wh fuzzy mouth |
Coreopsis major
V common in clearcut.
| | LF | | opp, glab, sess, lance, some 3-foliate |
| | PHYL | | two unequal rows, inner yellowish & appress, outer long spreading gr leafy lin acute, glab, ~6x1mm |
| | RECEPT | | chaffy| chaff | | yellow, v narrow, longer than frs |
|
| | RAY | | 8, yellow, 13x6mm, toothed |
| | OV | | v comp, no beak, tapering to tip, yellow, glab |
| | FR | | brownish-black, 5x2.5mm, v flat| wings | | 1mm, reddish to lt tan marg |
oblong to sl ov |
Agalinis tenuifolia?
A few in clearcut.
| | LF | | opp, narr lin-ellip, small, sess, glab |
| | SEP | | 5, join, glab, bell, 3x2mm| lobes | | delt, 1x1mm, spread 30deg |
|
| | PET | | bilat, lt rose-purp, 11x10x5mm| lobes | | rounded rectangular, 4x3mm |
|
| | STAM | | 4, 5 and 7mm, wh, loose long twisted hairy |
| | ANTH | | paired tubes split lengthwise, pale yell, 1.2mm, each in a loose tuft of long twisted wh hairs |
| | OV | | 1, sup, green, shiny, glab, ovoid, < 1mm |
| | STYLE | | 8mm, wh to purpish, glab, stig no wider than style & apparently entire |
Dicks says that pink fls under 0.5 inches with upper lip not spreading as much and inside of fl glab is
A. tenuifolia.
(Note: Agalinis can be lumped into Gerardia along with Aureolaria and perhaps others.)
Amanita cinereopannosa
Just below clearcut in sunny dry forest under pines.
| | ST | | white, min scurfy and v wh scurfy at base, ragged wh veil has fallen off onto ground, base bulbous but no cup |
| | CAP | | huge, broadly convex, white with lots of wart-like lt reddish-brown scales |
Lincoff says you need a microscope to distinguish this from several other related Amanitas.
Other photos:
Leocarpus fragilis []
Scutellinia scutellata
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