NC, Smokies, 20071120
CabinCove, fungi.
Fungi
Prissy Bear's Run up to Minerva. Mostly (1) on the log just over the first creek crossing that always has the late fall oysters, (2) the big old rotten log (was it a maple?) that I cut through years and years ago in the low spot right next to the creek.
(2)
| | GEN | | minute mushroom, on oak leaves |
| | ST | | 5-40x0.1mm, white, smooth, wiry |
| | CAP | | white, 2mm wide, dome, pleated, depressed center, smooth, translucent |
| | GILL | | white, att, 10 long ones and 10 short ones attached only at marg |
| | SPORE | | you're kidding right?? |
Scutellinia scutellata [] [voucher]
(2)
| | GEN | | small disk fungus, few to large numbers scattered, on rotten mossy hardwood |
| | CAP | | 3-7mm, orange, fine long black hairy on back, hairs protrude around edge, fertile surface perfectly smooth, sl concave |
| | FLESH | | same as cap, ~0.2-0.3mm thick |
Scutellinia erinaceus [] [voucher]
(2) Oops, the smaller ones are a different species maybe!
| | CAP | | 1-1.5mm wide, otherwise same as above |
(2)
| | GEN | | small disk fungus, several crowded to scattered, on rotten mossy hardwood |
| | ST | | none or v short central |
| | CAP | | 2-12mm, concave, crowded and contorted, dull, deep violet-burgundy-vinaceous hue, rubbery, outside paler, all smooth |
| | FLESH | | paler, like backside of cup, gelatinous |
Oligonema schweinitzii [] [voucher]
(2)
| | GEN | | slime mold, covering v rotten mossy hardwood log over stream |
| | CAP | | bright ochre, ends up as cottony mass (gives off clouds of spores in this stage), originally tightly packed single layer of minute borwn beads that eventually turn bright ochre then burst into cottony mass, beads ~0.5mm shiny smooth round spheres |
| | SPORE | | print yellowish brown |
Found photo at
www.plant.uga.edu.
slimy brickhead
(2) Warning: this is a young specimen.
| | GEN | | small mushroom, clustered, on rotten mossy hardwood log over stream |
| | ST | | 25x6mm, whitish, fibrillose, hollow, fibrous-tough, lilac fuzz at base |
| | CAP | | 15mm wide, dome, orange-brown to reddish-brown, slimy, smooth, white fibrillose around margin (from veil) |
| | FLESH | | 4mm thick, watery, pale cap-colored |
| | GILL | | attached, pale yellowish |
| | SPORE | | failed to get print |
This one defeats me. I want to say it's
Cortinarius, but I can't find it.
(1)
| | GEN | | small shelf mushroom, on several-year-dead v rotten moss-covered hardwood log by trail |
| | ST | | lateral, yellower and less scurfy than cap, 5-20mm long, stubby |
| | CAP | | to 30mm wide, sticking out up to 20mm, nicely shaped rounded cap, deep green scurfy over yellowish context paling in age to mottled yellowish grayish greenish, margin curled under, slimy |
| | FLESH | | quite thick (up to 10mm?), whitish but watery when fresh, semi-tough |
| | GILL | | decurrent, bright yellow fading in age, v close, less than 2mm deep, many forked |
| | SPORE | | failed to get any from these but see 20071126 |
(2)
| | GEN | | small mushroom, scattered under rotting mossy hardwood log |
| | ST | | 20-40x2-4mm, curved, sl off-center, brown, pale yellowish at top, striate from innate fibers, tough but breaks halfway solid, same color inside as outside |
| | CAP | | 35mm, broadly convex, rich deep brown fading to yellowish brown at margin, brighter when young, smooth, slimy when wet, translucent striate in outer third, v thin marg hung with veil remnants, hygrophanous (fading lt brown?), v low small umbo |
| | FLESH | | water brownish, to 1.5mm thick, flexible, doesn't break when bent in half |
| | VEIL | | partial, superior, v thin membranous, turns brown from spores, also leaves tatters on marg of cap |
| | GILL | | dirty pale yellowish to pale tannish, scattered brown spores visible at 20x, v sl decur |
| | SPORE | | print plain old brown |
Tubaria furfuracea []
(1) (One of the logs to the left of the path.)
| | GEN | | small mushroom, scattered under rotting mossy hardwood log |
| | ST | | 20-40x2-4mm, curved, sl off-center, dk brown, whitissh to yellowish fibrillose-scurfy esp near top, hollow, dk brown inside, fibrous, flexible but not breaking |
| | CAP | | to 30mm wide, broadly convex, v low small umbo, smooth, not striate, dirty splotched dark brown to pale yellowish brown, hygrophanous (fading pale yellowish), margin v thin and min ragged, marg curled under when v young |
| | FLESH | | ~1.5mm thick, watery brown, soft flexible but not breaking |
| | VEIL | | none, not even any remnants hanging from margin of young cap |
| | GILL | | diry pale tan, close, sl decur, unbr, scattered brown spores visible at 20x, 2-3mm deep |
(2)
| | GEN | | small mushroom, solit, in moss on top of rotting hardwood log |
| | ST | | 10x6mm, bulbous base, flares at v top, same color and texture as cap, solid, watery but same color inside |
| | CAP | | 20mm wide, somewhat irreg convex, waxy slick texture, lilac-gray drying brownish, white tomentose, marg min curled under |
| | FLESH | | water but same color inside, 5mm thick |
| | VEIL | | can't find any signs of any |
| | GILL | | att, whitish to pale lilac, 1mm deep, v close, clean and straight, few forked |
Oops, looks like I picked this one way too young!
Photos
Just a few shots of the morning mist.
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