NC, Smokies, 20060527
CabinCove, various.
Callistosporium luteo-olivaceum?
Under white pine just above the driveway neat top of hill (1st one coming in).
| | GEN | | mushroom, clustered, from ground or rotting pine debris, in leaf litter of eastern white pine |
| | ST | | long twisted and flattened, v fibrous, flexible but sorta tough, hollow, yell-tan to reddish, dry, smooth, 5mm wide, to 200mm tall(!), white mat of mycelium at base cementing needle debris to it |
| | CAP | | irreg convex to plane or even concave, dry and smooth, 20-40mm wide, irreg lt tan to golden tan and reddish, overlapping and where they overlap the color reflects gill imprint of the one above |
| | FLESH | | pale almost white, thin |
| | GILL | | close, unbr, notched or adnexed, lt yell-tan |
| | SPORE | | print white, 5x2.5um, ellip, smooth, colorless, 1 cell, acute at one end, two lat indentations when dry but filling out to perfect ellip in K |
I'm less and less impressed with this damned
Arora every day I use it. I understand he can't cover everything, but he could at least provide sufficient info for the ones he
does cover to allow you to feel confident one way or another...
Chrysothrix candelaris
On bark of dead small pine in pine forest.
| | GEN | | crust lichen, on conifer bark |
| | THAL | | leprose, minute granules, greenish-yell to lemon yell, some orange-yell fuzz but I'm not sure that's part of the lichen, K- |
Leucothoe fontanesiana
Some along the other driveway up to the Langdale's.
Viola canadensis rugulosa
In fl, some fr already (how did I miss it??); on far section of Misty Mellow, on the left br, on the left going downhill.
| | LF | | ov, acum, shallow cord, dist serr, 75x60+10mm, aur 3-4mm, glab |
| | INFL | | 1, axil, pedicel 30mm, pedicel sharply curved at tip |
| | SEP | | 5-6x1mm, sharp, spread a bit, min aurs at base, glab |
| | PET | | 5, free, 25mm wide total| up lips | | 2, 90deg, erect, white, yell at v base, lt purp blush on back, oblance-strap, rounded trunc tip, 14x7mm |
| wings | | 2, 90deg to reflex a bit, 9:30 and 2:30, white, yell at v base, 1 dk purp vein at base, lt purp blush on back, 12x7mm, rounded trunc tip, v d long clavate pap on yellow bits and in upper throat |
| low lip | | 1, 90deg, white, yell at v base, 7 dk purp veins on lower third, white on back, cuneate, trunc and mucronate tip, 11x10mm, spur 1.5mm |
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| | FR | | v d clear-white subsess gland |
They were in a large scattered stand, implying presence of stolons
certainly not very clumped.
Viola papilionacea
Two more along driveway: both have the same clavate hairs in beard, but rather differently shaped lvs.
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