On hardwood. Either oak or ash.
Young fruiting on a well rotted Alnus rubra.
Harvested 4 specimens.
Spore printed 2 caps directly on a glass slide for spore print/microscopy.
Spore Print: white.
Spores: mostly cylindrical(some are irregularly formed, smooth, relatively small. See images dry.
Mounted spore printed slide prints in KOH.
Spores pale yellow in KOH. See images.
Dehydrated all 4 specimens and bagged for herbarium collection/genetic record.
My coinciding Mushroomobserver observation below-
First I thought it was Peniophora incarnata and when I checked the spores, big surprise! They were globose and ornamented. It took me two washes of KOH to be able to hardly see the asterosettes which were not too abundant. Gloeocystidia is huge: 336 um x 14.8 um.
The fruitbody was several decimeters in extent, on a wet deciduous tree at edge of pond. Spore print was orange! Hardwood. Pond. Park.
Was growing in a predominately American Beech forest.
Growing out of moss in a wetland. Private property. Southborough, MA.
Tiny orange cups bursting out of a decaying paper birch branch.
what is growing inside the wasp nest, reminds me of Bonnet Mold Spinellus fusiger
C. lutescens far left; C. ravenelii other four. This is an intentionally mixed collection, to compare and contrast the two species, so I'd like to just call this observation Calostoma.
Found on a Spring foray with the Snohomish County Mycological Society. while everyone was picking Verpa, I'm o'er yonder crawling around in the ferns looking for stuff like this lol
I took a lot of photos of this thing & I can't say that I am particularly pleased with any of them. Also, I'm lost on what this observation should even be labeled as anyways..
Dr. Priscila Chaverri and her teaching assistant, Efraín Escudero-Leyva of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional in Mexico, were the course’s resident ascomycetologists. As this initially resembled one of the green Hypocrea/Trichoderma spp., I passed it off to them, thinking light work would be made of the ID process. After some microscopy and reference checking, Efraín returns with the name Dactylospora, a (mostly) lichenicolous genus in the Lecanorales.
This is one of the most beautiful fungi I have ever seen, and I greatly look forward to discovering the rest of its name.
UPDATE 8/28/16: Believed to be a member of the genus Abrothallus by multiple members of the “Ascomycetes of the World” Facebook group. Name updated accordingly.
Substrate: unk. foliose lichen (Observation 249900)
Habitat: Costa Rican Páramo
Ecoregion: Talamanca Montane Forests (NA0167)
Collector(s): D. Newman
Collection #: n/a
Collected for the 2016 Organization for Tropical Studies “Fungi and Fungus-Like Organisms” Course