FL, Keys, 20071207
Buttonwood, fungi.
In forest on other side of fence.
Pleurotus keys-creamy-spored [] [voucher]
| | GEN | | small gilled shelf, on downed rotting hardwood log (impossible to ID) |
| | CAP | | ~30mm wide, fan-shaped, whitish to pale brownish, smooth, dull, funnel-shaped, marg gracefully curled under |
| | FLESH | | whitish, less than 1mm, fragile |
| | GILL | | whitish, decur, close, clean, 3mm deep |
| | SPORE | | print pale creamy brownish is that white or brown?? |
Assumed this was a small oyster, but the spore color of the oyster is distinctive; this is not pinkish at all. But on the other hand it's not exactly brown either...
Pycnoporus sanguineus [] [voucher]
Small ugly one on fallen unidentifiable hardwood stick. Unmistakable.
| | GEN | | small shelf fungi, clustered on living bahama strongbark (Bourreria succulenta), K? |
| | CAP | | 20-40mm wide, hoof-shaped, rich yellowish to rusty brown, dry, velvety, not zoned, v pitted and irreg surface |
| | FLESH | | tough, same color and texture as surface, 5-10mm thick |
| | PORE | | vivid lustrous yellowish brown or ochre, much smoother than upper surface, ~6 per mm, 1-2mm deep |
| | SPORE | | print appears to be whitish (but faint) |
white shelf
| | GEN | | small shelf fungus, on downed rotting hardwood log, K? |
| | CAP | | 15mm wide, white, faintly zoned by texture and ridges but not by color, v faintly and minutely but distinctly soft felty |
| | FLESH | | ochre, ~1mm thick, firm and tough but gives a little like hard rubber |
| | PORE | | white, beautifully packed, walls thicker than pin-prick holes, about 5 per mm, up to about 5mm deep(!), flesh of pores yellowish, well defined 1mm raised sterile marg |
| | SPORE | | failed to get print |
| | GEN | | small polypore, on downed rotting small hardwood log, K? |
| | ST | | nearly lateral, just a constricted point below cap where it attaches, same color as cap |
| | CAP | | 30-50mm wide, kidney to fan-shaped, zoned whitish to gray to brown to yellowish, distinct rusty-ochre stains around margin (entire surface is this color when damp), surface fairly flat-topped to sl depressed above stem |
| | FLESH | | tough and rigid, 2-3mm thick, whitish to ochre-ish |
| | PORE | | whitish to ochre near marg, walls thicker than pores, irreg packed, 4-5 per mm, ~1.5mm deep, flesh same color as surface |
| | GEN | | large shelf fungus, on long-dead ficus root, K? |
| | CAP | | 80mm wide, sticks out 60mm, fan-shaped to semi-circ, fairly flat on top with sl depression to attachment and margins somewhat convex, faintly broadly zoned but obscured, v d black bristly, hairs twisty and somewhat tufted to 5mm or more long |
| | FLESH | | brown, 2mm thick, v tough and rigid |
| | PORE | | smoky brown, smooth to somewhat undulating, 1mm thin ragged ster marg, darker brown inside marg, 4 per mm, to 3mm deep, flesh = surface |
| | GEN | | small cup fungi, under small hardwood limb (impossible to ID) |
| | ST | | central and v short if at all |
| | CAP | | 5-25mm wide, broadly cup-shaped, opening downward, tan to brown oustide, d soft short velvety, context darker than hairs |
| | FLESH | | v thin (~0.1-0.2mm thick), v tough and rigid |
| | PORE | | fertile surface smooth, dark vinaceous-gray-brown, lightening in places to almost pinkish, faint whitish bloom or cast to it |
| | SPORE | | failed to get print |
Geastrum []
| | GEN | | small earthstar, on small fallen stopper (1-2" thick and bark still on), surrounded by copious white stain from mycelium |
| | CAP | | 6-8mm wide, round, tapering at bottom to pt of attachment| outside skin | | roughened, creamy whitish to brownish outside, splitting into 5 neat spreading segments when moist, rays ~6x4mm, dull brown and smooth inside with whitish bloom |
| inside ball | | 1-2mm smaller, lt brown, pucker at tip with small well-defined pore, whitish around pore (v minute tomentum?), flabby and soft |
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| | SPORE | | print dark smoky brown, mass is v diffuse and cottony |
Darvin insists this is
Geastrum, not
Astraeus hygrometricus or its cousin (only two species of
A.).
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