NC, Smokies, 20071116
CabinCove, fungi.
These fungi were all on moist rotting logs at the foot of the hill between house and Mary Wanda. Random fall foliage and scenery on road to Mary Wanda.
Mycena []
| | GEN | | small mushroom, single, on rotting hemlock |
| | ST | | 80x1mm or thinner, brownish, flexible and not stiff but not breaking, white long thin hairy along most of length |
| | CAP | | 15x12mm, conical, dull brown, smooth to v min hoary-fibrillose, translucent striate, marg not curled in |
| | FLESH | | v thin, pale brownish |
| | GILL | | pale brown, att, rel dist, 2mm deep |
Chlorociboria aeruginascens [] [voucher]
| | GEN | | small disk mushroom, scattered all over log in sheltered spots, distinctive emerald green stain in wood all around them |
| | ST | | 1-2mm, central to v off-center |
| | CAP | | 1-10mm, cup to ear or fan, thin, blue-green, paler below, smooth |
Dacrymyces palmatus []
| | GEN | | small jelly fungus, on downed rotting hemlock limb |
| | CAP | | ruffled, lobes on the order of ~5mm, rounded, yellow-orange, uniform color except white mycelia near and around base, smooth |
| | GEN | | slime mold, crowded, on rotting hemlock log among moss |
| | CAP | | 4-8mm, round, dk brown-gray, matte-shiny |
| | SPORE | | pinkish dry spore mass inside balls |
| | GEN | | tiny disk fungus, scattered in great numbers but not crowded, rarely contorting due to pressing against one another, on dead rotting oak log |
| | ST | | sentral, v short, expanding smoothly into disk, whitish to pale yellow, smooth |
| | CAP | | 0.3-2.0mm, round, disk, vivid golden, v sl concave, uniform, smooth, even |
minute yellow translucent disk [voucher]
| | GEN | | small disk/jelly fungus, crowded in large masses, all over rotting hemlock among moss |
| | CAP | | 1-8mm wide, contorted considerably but clearly disk-like, semi-translucent pale yellow, even color, smooth, margin rounded and thick (rel to size of disks), underside seems to be same |
These disks became confluent upon drying.
minute yellow parchment disk [voucher]
| | GEN | | small disk/parchement fungus, v crowded covering large areas, all over underside of rotting hemlock log |
| | CAP | | golden to yellow-orange, oranger toward center of disks, 2-8mm wide, convex, confluent, white min tomentose marg and underside (like a prothallus), smooth above |
These also became featureless and confluent upon drying.
Quercus rubra []
Usnea strigosa []
Cladonia []
This is on the log just past where the trail at the foot of the hill crosses Phillip's spring. I hope to take pictures of this in future years to show successive growth. That is, unless storms damage it.
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