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Basidiomycete Fungi (Phylum Basidiomycota)Observer
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Red Lamprocystidia can be seen in these photos at 25x
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Giraffe Spots (Peniophora albobadia)Observer
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Backyard
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Basidiomycete Fungi (Phylum Basidiomycota)Observer
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White crust on bark of long-burning split red oak. Microscopy shows only hyphae, occasionally branched, rarely clamped, no basidia or spores. Fibrillate sporocarp softened /restored quickly in water. Yellow in KOH see photo #5.
There is fine green-brown moss near and below this crust and the crust seems to like it... or the moss has just died in winter. The dead moss seems to have stained the crust red-brown.
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Phlebiopsis crassaObserver
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Seems to be actively growing
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Basidiomycete Fungi (Phylum Basidiomycota)Observer
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Due to cracks in the white crust after 5 days of drizzle, I conclude this is an annual which has died as a result of dry or cold weather. Not sure how I can prove that. There appears to be an actively growing crust in photo #4, but I am not sure it is the same thing. Probably growing on Tulip poplar. Microscopy suggestive, but not conclusive.
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Life (Life)Observer
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Red stain, bacteria, or fungi on hickory or oak branch in my backyard …. at 25x, it looks like paint. At 250x or 1000x it looks like paint or a thin jelly but without substantial hyphae or other structures. There are several types of spores, maybe a schleroderma, as I would expect, but none that I can clearly tie to the red stain.
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After several days of winter drizzle, my wood pile is alive. Polypores grew substantially. Are these jellies the same species. They appear to be different colors
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Brown-toothed Crust Fungus (Hydnoporia olivacea)Observer
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Use of 2.5x and 10x objectives as a dissecting scope, allows views of red lageranform cystidia against the hairy surfaces of crust and teeth.
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Genus AureobasidiumObserver
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I soaked these magnolia cones a couple days to prepare for planting them in a flower pot to see if a mushroom will grow out of them. To my surprise there is a rich black ring around the dish they soaked in. The cones are now planted, but the black ring is shown here at 1000x. what is it? alternaria?
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Tulasnella violeaObserver
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Tiny barely pink ring on bark. Hard to show the correct color in the sunlight or in the microscope without doping the photos.
After 4 days in a shallow dish of water the pink masses have become soft and gelatinous piles of conidia, some apparently in chains. Connective tissue is not visible.
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Rusty Woodwart (Hypoxylon rubiginosum)Observer
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Ostioles of perithecia visible from above at 25x; cross sections of nearly spherical perithecia show black material below and bright red material above, hidden by the brown surface of the hypoxylon.
Ostiols start to protrude 24 hours after being placed in water.
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Genus ExidiaObserver
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Recent freezing temps have given this exidia a cracked outer layer that can be seen at right as red-brown patches. My question: why so many cubic crystals on the surface and between the patches?
Still struggling to find spores and basidia...,
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Luminescent Panellus (Panellus stipticus)Observer
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The dried brackets rehydrated very quickly and were easily visible as phosphorescent in a dark closet as soon as the door was closed.
I did not find much with microscopy.
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Daldinia Concentrica Group (Complex Daldinia concentrica)Observer
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Genus HelicogloeaObserver
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Conidiaphores and conidia!
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Giraffe Spots (Peniophora albobadia)Observer
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hymenium is lighter brown area in middle. Dark brown border and white edge are both sterile.
The reader may note 2 or 3 spore types. I believe these spores or ovoid to allantoid, not spherical spinulose.
Red algal cells (Trentepohlia umbrina) noted in wood substrate; microscopy only.
white speckles on dark brown border are a mystery.
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Common Tarcrust Fungus (Diatrype stigma)Observer
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microscopy only
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Genus ResupinatusObserver
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last 2 photos are dried sporocarps after 2 days on my table.
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Genus ExidiaObserver
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strange clamp-like structures on branched hyphe with occasional spores and cystidia. Takes phloxine well.
Suspect I will find more reproductive structures on dark-brown portion of sporocarp.
No reproductive structures discovered on second try. I think my crush mount is too destructive. Note photo of one spore, which looks the same as what I say yesterday.
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Crowded Cuplet (Merismodes fasciculata)Observer
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Original specimen was dry on a stick in my backyard. I soaked in water for 4 days and they opened up to reveal white surface inside. Only the cups near the edge of the wood opened even though the entire specimen was covered in water several times. There is an unidentified white mass and clear gelatinuous jelly covering some of them. The white stuff is definitely fungi of some type but the content of the clear jelly is unknown. After 10 days in the water there is a white solid mass in the center of the cup.