NC, Smokies, 20071129
CabinCove, fungi.
Asbury, just over the first stream crossing, off trail up the valley to the right. Most on the enormous rotting red? oak.
Metatrichia vesparium [] [voucher]
| | GEN | | slime mold, on v rotten hardwood log |
| | CAP | | clusters of minute red cups on short stalks, cups ~0.3mm wide, stalk ~2mm tall |
| | SPORE | | well past that stage |
Also on big oak at top of Asbury.
| | GEN | | tiny club fungus, scattered on wet rotten algae-covered oak wood (not bark) |
| | CAP | | club-shaped, simple to fibriate to outright multiply-forked (rare), 3-6mm tall, ~0.3-0.4mm wide, narrowed at base, white to yellowish to dk reddish brown at v tip, somewhat irreg and often minutely lumpy, shiny, smooth |
| | SPORE | | withers way to quickly to get a print |
| | GEN | | huge jelly fungus, clumped on rotted oak |
| | CAP | | ruffled contorted disk-like lobes and bunched together, lobes ~50mm wide, thin (~1mm thick), v soft and flabby, translucent, pinkish to orangy brown, darkening in age, smooth but with a faint whitish bloom perhaps from some microscopic texture |
Hard to believe this is the same thing as before.
| | GEN | | small jelly fungus, small clumps protruding from under bark flakes on oak log |
| | CAP | | small ruffled lobes, pale pinkish lilac to deep rich purple and vinaceous, translucent, gelatinous, smooth, lobes on the order of 5-10mm broad by 15-20mm long, tightly bunched together |
| | SPORE | | failed to get a print |
Hypholoma sublateritium [] [voucher]
| | GEN | | avg mushroom, small to large clumps on old oak log, no odor |
| | ST | | 50x7-9mm, curved, even thickness, pale yellowish at top to dk reddish brown at bottom, scurfy-fibrillose esp near bottom, faint white fuzzy near base, solid, pale yellowish inside, fibrous, not breaking easily, firm |
| | CAP | | to 50-60mm wide, contorted, convex, smooth, dry, shiny, rich lt reddish brown in center to buff or yellowish outside, cuticle cracking when dry |
| | FLESH | | pale yellowish, to 10mm thick in wide area near center, fragile, firm spongy, unchanging |
| | GILL | | adnate, close, odd livid grayish yellowish color, esp grayish seen side-on, to 7mm deep, unbr, becoming a bit mottled from minute powdering of brown spores |
| | SPORE | | print copious purplish brown |
Hypholoma sublateritium [] [voucher]
Same log but different place; are these different??
| | GEN | | small to avg mushroom, small clumps on old oak log, no odor |
| | ST | | curved, 30x5-7mm, v pale yellowish to reddish near base, shiny fibrous, whitish scurfy thinning above, hollow, pale inside, soft and bending readily but not breaking |
| | CAP | | to 30-40mm wide, domed, marg curled in a bit, dull, smooth to faint scattered thin fibrilose scales, rich reddish brown fading to yellowish near margin, finely whitish fibrillose around marg from partial veil remnants |
| | FLESH | | v pale yellowish, 1-2mm thick, fragile but cuticle tougher and peeling a bit |
| | VEIL | | partial, fibrillose, not leaving any sign on stalk, v pale, leaving tatters hanging from marg |
| | GILL | | strongly notched but att, v pale yellowish, unbr, close, clean |
| | SPORE | | print copious purplish brown |
Ah, at last! Beautiful find! These were quite large, and had turned all sorts of neat colors, from the usual yellowish and green to bluish or steel gray to orangy to almost purplish. I expect a full spore print at last...
| | GEN | | resupinate shelf, on big old oak log, strong fungal odor |
| | CAP | | white to creamy to gray near marg, lumpy, soft tomentose, not zoned, sticking out 30mm or more |
| | FLESH | | 1mm, white, tough, somewhat rigid |
| | PORE | | dirty gray to pale near margin, v fine (~8 per mm!), 1mm deep |
| | SPORE | | print whitish (but faint) |
Can't find the "thin dark line (that) spearates the pores from the flesh" of which
Arora speaks.
This was on the ridge between TT and where Asbury leaves ridge. I picked this up largely because it seemed fresh and I hoped it might give a spore print.
| | GEN | | crust fungus, on small oak limb, peels off with thin bark |
| | PORE | | yellow to whitish near marg, somewhat soft, v fine |
| | SPORE | | failed to get a print |
This was just past halfway on TT.
| | GEN | | tiny mushroom, in moss and soil on trail, on dry steep slope with hardwood forest |
| | ST | | 20x0.5mm, shiny-translucent, yellow to orangish, smooth, not breaking, slick (viscid when wet?) |
| | CAP | | tiny (~5mm), golden to somewhat darker and orangish at center, convex, smooth, slick (viscid when wet?) |
| | GILL | | decur, dist, golden like cap, thick |
| | SPORE | | failed to get a print |
If
Hygrocybe, could be
H. ceracea or
H. parvula (too small for these?); if
Xeromphalina or
Omphalina, could be
X. cauticinalis or
O. fibula (shouldn't cap be depressed?)
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