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Slime Molds
Slime molds! A fungual treasure trove on elevated extremely rotten hardwood log at foot of that newly-downed oak on Misty Mellow.
Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa flexuosa []
There is tons of this all over these days.
Stemonitis splendens []
Withered, but the chocolate tube remnants are obvious.
Hemitrichia clavata []
| | GEN | | one stage is orange tangled fuzz-ball atop a flaring orange-yell cone, another stage is a shiny round to pointed dull orange ball on an almost invisible white thread sometimes hanging some distance from tree |
Arcyria cinerea []
| | GEN | | slime mold, powdery white cone atop a shorty stocky stalk, cone widest at base and tapering to blunt tip |
Thanks to myxonz at flickr for the ID.
golden mold []
Same thing from two days ago.
| | GEN | | fuzzy deep orange flat patches w yellow equally fuzzy margin, produces short tan powdery-fuzzy stalks |
tiny red spine ball
Found this associated with the "golden mold" above. What da heck is it??
Mushrooms
Chlorociboria aeruginascens []
| | GEN | | v min vivid blue-green to emerald stalked cups, lter inside, smooth, flesh also same color, thallus stains wood a distinctive emerald green that is conspic throughout year even when not fruiting |
tiny brown disk []
| | GEN | | cup fungus, tiny, on wood |
| | CAP | | 2-3mm wide, tan, v thin, translucent, flat, round to wrinkled a bit, min fine whitish cil? |
Omphalina strombodes? []
| | GEN | | tiny mushroom, scattered on wood |
| | ST | | 15x1mm, curved gracefully up, lt brown, silky-fibrous-shiny, smooth, v fine white fuzz at base, even thickness whole length |
| | CAP | | 10mm, v concave, vase-like, marg arching out to flat, lt brown, silky-fibrous-shiny and v min brown scurfy |
| | GILL | | decur, lt brown, 2 per mm, unbr, powdery w white spores at 30x |
| | SPORE | | print v pale yellish, colorless, smooth, 1 cell, knobbed, faint greenish texturing inside, ellip, ~6x5um, sticking liquidly together in loose flat masses |
No description, but key to genus is somewhat convincing, and
Arora doesn't list any better-matching species.
Polyporus elegans? []
| | GEN | | tiny stalked shelf mushroom, on wood |
| | ST | | lat, rudimentary, finely tom ab, pores bel |
| | CAP | | 22mm wide, wider than deep, whitish aging golden-tawny, min tom at marg, v min fibrillose?, finely wh streaked all over, flexible but rubbery |
| | FLESH | | 1.5mm, creamy, K+ dkening v sl to med brown |
| | PORE | | 4-5 per mm, creamy white in ctr to tawny-brown at marg, to 1mm long, some coallescing into long pockets esp near base, decur full length of "stem", hoary look, walls v thin, pores angular |
| | SPORE | | print not visible, colorless, ellip-oblong, smooth, no stuff inside, 1 cell, ~8-10x4-5um |
It lacks the black foot, but otherwise is right on; nothing else comes close it seems.
Crepidotus herbarum []
| | GEN | | small shelf mushroom, on wood |
| | CAP | | 25mm, convex, whitish, min webby-fibrillose, perfectly even, soft |
| | GILL | | lt golden brown, radiate from central pt, unbr, 2-3 per mm, 2-3mm long |
| | SPORE | | print lt brown, v lt brown, smooth, ellip to ov, obtusely pted on one or both ends, keeled around entire length running through pts visiblw as a line through middle on sopres not seen perfectly side-on, 1 cell, ~7x5um, sticking together in towering sponge-like masses |
Doesn't impress me as the best morphological match, but the spores make it clear, at least of the choices
Arora gives me.
Pleurotus ostreatus []
Growing on a small rotten log under conifers near Misty Mellow on Heading Home (off to left a little way).
Russula emetica []
Scattered all over the slope to the right just before crossing Misty Mellow spring. And every single one, no matter what stage of growth from button to withered, has been munched by some critter or another. This is one popular mushroom!
| | GEN | | med mushroom, scattered on ground under hemlocks, odor v mild, flesh acrid |
| | ST | | white, stocky, rel short, brittle, etc. |
| | CAP | | 70mm, convex, smooth, not striate, dry, dk rosy red to pinkish but even solid color on any one specimen |
| | FLESH | | 7mm, white, fragile under thin stretchy cortex |
| | GILL | | sl creamy white, clean, straight, unbr, att, 2-3 per mm, 3-4mm long |
| | SPORE | | print white, nearly round, colorless, v d warty, 1 cell, ~6-8um, sticking in heaping masses |
Lichens
These were both not far up the trunk of the big fallen oak on Misty Mellow, now, of course easily accessible by walking along the trunk!.
| | GEN | | foliose lichen, on hardwood bark |
| | THAL | | v thin, v wrinkly, shiny slate grey both surfaces, no rhiz or tom bel, lobes 6-10mm wide? |
| | ALG | | no clear layer present the thallus looks solid blackish the whole way through |
| | APO | | dk brownish red, flat to curved, granular-shiny, to 2mm wide, thin smooth lecanorine marg, raised and constricted bel |
Parmeliella triptophylla [] [voucher]
| | GEN | | foliose lichen, on hardwood bark |
| | THAL | | squamulose, brownish grey, heavily pruinose, squamules to 1mm wide, closely appress, greyish black thin mat of tangled hairs bel, growing small pustules or lobules that break up into coarse to powdery soredia or isidia, lobules first grow on margins but soon comprise entire thallus in old parts, "soredia" glue-grey, no cortex bel, K-, C-, KC- |
This species does not key very well at all.
Other
Lilium superbum []
Found some of these on slope beyond pine forest. Not even close to fl yet.
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