On decaying palm stump
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Originally posted to Mushroom Observer on Nov. 21, 2020.
Growing on a corticated Fagus grandifolia log. Odor not distinctive. All structures inamyloid. Dendrohyphidia absent. Inflated cystidia abundant in the subhymenium. Basidia 4-sterigmate. Spores smooth, hyaline and thin-walled. Spore measurements: (3.6) 4 – 5 (5.5) × (2.2) 2.3 – 3.1 (3.5) µm; Q = (1.4) 1.5 – 1.9 (2.1); N = 30; Me = 4.5 × 2.7 µm; Qe = 1.7.
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Originally posted to Mushroom Observer on Oct. 3, 2021.
Collected near the Indian Pass trail. Growing on dead portions of a live Betula papyrifera trunk. Odor not distinctive. All structures inamyloid. Inflated cystidia abundant in the subhymenium. Dendrohyphidia absent. Basidia 4-sterigmate. Spores smooth, hyaline and thin-walled. Spore measurements: (3.6) 3.8 – 4.7 (5) × (2.1) 2.2 – 2.8 (3.1) µm; Q = (1.4) 1.6 – 2 (2.1); N = 30; Me = 4.3 × 2.5 µm; Qe = 1.8.
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Originally posted to Mushroom Observer on Oct. 3, 2021.
Warty, pinkish-light brown, with white edge, on rotten wood and on the ground.
Growing in wet mixed duff. Some appeared to be emerging from Redwood needles, but difficult to determine. The first image shows some that were emerging from a rotten Rhododendron (?) twig. Other options are California-Bay Laurel (Umbellularia californica) and Coast Live Oak (Quercus agrifolia) leaves.
Polypore-like, with glowing lemon yellow blunt teeth. Light weight, spongy texture. Many caps, laterally attached to a giant fallen root: Nyssa sylvatica. KOH darkened its teeth. Smelled sweet and of passion fruit. Teeth are blunt, round and even flatten. When new they are almost white with a glassy look, and embedded in a white 'subiculum'. Teeth darken when older to a yellow mustard tone. They are white inside. Teeth glow near edge of cap. It also grows effused/resupinate, hidden among the tree roots. Teeth are darker towards their base. Cap is spongy, brown, light brown and cream and covered with debris and soil. Aspect is not smooth. In transversal section, the flesh looks spongy and is white. Spores print is copious and brownish. Spores 1.5 x 2-2.3 um with thick walls. The fungus was covered with masses of spores.
Accession # 3294 NJMYCOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION at Rutgers University.
HRL3268. Cap 15-27 mm. Spores 7-10 x 3-3.5 um, inamyloid, smooth, cyanophilic. Basidia 4-spored, without siderophilic granulations. Cheilos and pleuros absent. Pileipellis a cutis. Clamp connections in all tissues
Récolte: 3 mai 2024
Habitat: tronc décortiqué de feuillu.
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
DC0094
Basidiome résupiné, environ 8 cm de longueur, marge finement fimbriée, 2-3 pores par mm.
Spores subglobuleuses à ellipsoïdes, 4,9-6,1 x 3,1-3,7um.
Hyphes bouclées, 3,0-5,0um.
Absence de cystides.
Inamyloïde, acyanophile.
Documents consultés :
Gorjón SP (2020). Genera of corticioid fungi: keys, nomenclature and taxonomy. Studies in
Fungi 5(1): 125-309.
Kinnunen, J. & Niemelä, T. (2005). North European species of Ceriporiopsis (Basidiomycota) and their Asian relatives. Karstenia.
On decorticate hardwood log. 3rd phono a cross section, spore bearing surface to left, top of cap to right. 4th close up of spore bearing surface, 5th top of cap
Grayish-brown crust, white hirsute edge, small round spots, with exerted cystidia (lamprocystidia) even on young fruiting body (lens); Edge rolls in when dry; hymenium cracking when dry. Micro features on drawing. On rotten deciduous wood.
common locally, grow usually from Late-March to Early May on rotten wood.
produce sclerotia and not nectrioid perithecia despite the appearance, preliminary sequences done a few year ago suggest affinities with Sistotrema species, but I want to retry again...
Maybe? Smells pleasantly sweet, like pink starburst candy. Cap is more pink than photos show.
I'm calling this remarkable fungus Sarcodontia amplissima. I noticed a resemblance to Radulomyces copelandii, but I knew it couldn't be that because of the vivid color—yellow with a slight greenish cast and areas of reddening. It had an intense, unpleasant odor that was apparent from a distance, but I wasn't sure it was coming from the fungus initially. When I smelled it at close range, I ascertained that the odor, which brought to mind wet plywood and sour towels, was indeed coming from the fungus—but at close range there was an additional, more pleasant component that I couldn't put a name to. Descriptions I have found mention fruitiness and unpleasantness.
I've been trying to unravel the taxonomy of this species—a number of names have been bouncing around with some conflicting ideas about synonymy. This 2021 research seems to have sorted the mess pretty well: https://www.fs.usda.gov/nrs/pubs/jrnl/2021/nrs_2021_nakasone_001.pdf
According to the findings of this research, the European species which closely resembles my find should be called Sarcodontia setosa. The name Sarcodontia crocea has often been used for finds resembling this, but that is apparently "based on an erroneous concept of Sistotrema croceum." The latest name for that species is Noblesia crocea—but it is apparently quite different from Sarcodontia amplissima and S. setosa.
The substrate was largely decorticated, and I was uncertain of its identity—but after researching the fungus, Malus (apple) seems plausible based on the shape of the limbs and the residual bark.
Creek trail, Sugarloaf State Park. Arbutus menziesii, Quercus, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Umbellularia californica, Heteromeles arbutifolia dominated mixed hardwood/conifer forest
Growing on the moist underside of decomposing hardwood (what I believe to be Umbellularia californica)
Poroid, amorphous, white crust with extending rhizomorphs. Pores consist of short tubes, varying in size and stature. Thin and fragile
Smells like old animal bedding at a pet store, slightly like urine
Taste instinct
KOH indistinct
Fluoresces a dim white
Caps grey with a hint of olive. Stems coated with an easily collapsed/discolored vesture.
No smell. Taste faintly oily at first; after 3-5 sec becoming distinctly acrid.
In moist soil poking out from underneath strips of loose dead hardwood bark.
Hornbeam, cherry, white oak, maple, sweetgum, elm, beech.
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ITS: Sequenced by Chance Noffsinger
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Originally posted to Mushroom Observer on Oct. 29, 2021.
One only under old rimu; c. 15 cm across. No beech anywhere near. Some Kunzea robusta close; Pinus radiata some distance away. Austropaxillus??
On forest floor/litter under mature Tsuga in an old-growth Eastern hemlock stand.
Basidiospores (3.8) 4.2 - 5.4 (5.5) × (3.2) 3.4 - 4.2 (4.4) µm;
Q = (1.0) 1.1 - 1.4 (1.5) ; N = 20.
Me = 4.7 × 3.8 µm ; Qe = 1.2
Cottony, hues of green-blue and yellow, with cordons. On abandoned pine plank. Spores mature to a blue hue.
Cespitose / fasciculate on well rotted log, probably red maple (Acer rubrum) or red oak (Quercus rubra). Odor and taste not recorded.
Pileus: 0.5-1.0 cm wide, light brown, planar convex becoming depressed, glabrous, hygrophanous, margin incurved becoming uplifted and undulating, margin darkening in age
Lamellae: pinkish white, decurrent, subdistant to distant, edges sometimes becoming dark pink to dark brown, occasionally forking, lamellulate
Stipe: 1-2 cm tall, 0.1-0.3 cm wide, light pinkish brown, smooth, terete, equal, sometimes flexuous
Odor: insignificant
Taste: not sampled
Habit: gregarious
Substrate: soil with moss
Habitat: lakeside open space with moss and grass near a hardwood forest dominated by Populus trichocarpa
Elevation: 15 m
Basidiospores: elliptic, apiculate, smooth, measuring (7.3) 7.9 - 9.6 (11.3) × (4.2) 4.4 - 5 (5.1) µm, Q = (1.6) 1.61 - 2 (2.3), N = 30, Me = 8.6 × 4.7 µm, Qe = 1.8
Growing on a well-rotted hardwood log in the floodplain of a small creek. Pileipellis composed of brown, thick-walled, roughened cellular elements. Pleurocystidia absent. Cheilocystidia hyaline and filiform. Spores brown, smooth and with a small germ pore. Spore measurements: (6.2) 6.9 – 8.3 (9.2) × (3.6) 3.7 – 4.5 (4.7) µm, Q = (1.6) 1.7 – 2 (2.2); N = 30, Me = 7.6 × 4.1 µm; Qe = 1.9
In a Thuja/Betula/Tsuga forest the day after heavy rains. On Thuja twigs, roots, leaves, and a fallen trunk
Stipitate, growing terrestrially. White hymenophore with long pore walls. Younger, smaller basidiocarps have short pore walls.
Fruiting on dead northern white cedar (Thuja occidentalis) on Black Duck CoveTrail, near Lubec, Maine.
According to Index Fungorum, the current name is Oxyporus cuneatus. However inaturalist is using Rigidoporus cuneatus.
Sur section de conifère mort (Pinus ou Picea); basidiome résupiné, environ 0,5 mm d'épaisseur, brun doré, se tachant de noir pourpré au froissement, feutré, à marge plus jaune, hispide; hyménophore bosselé, ondulé radialement par endroit; consistance coriace molle.
Growing from standing angiosperm log in disturbed forest near stream. Pores about 6-8/mm. Pilei reduced and never well formed from other examples I’ve seen, imbricate. Skeletal hyphae of trama conpicuously encrusted, no cystidia or clamps identified. Globose elements present in hymenium appear to basidioles. Spores ellipsoid, about 5×3, hyaline in H20. Large and small rounded, free crystals appear to be present in hymenium (h20). Elements inamyloid. Globose, yellowish slightly thick walled and faintly echinulate chlamydospores may be present in context (artifact?). Skeletal hyphae dominant in context, long, unbranched, interwoven. No clamps or septa observed (generative hyphae not observed).
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Image #2: Context
Image #3: Context
Image #4: Encrusted skeletal hyphae (trama, H20)
Image #7: Context hyphae (KOH)
Image #8: Spores 1000x H20
Image #9: Spores (H20)
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Originally posted to Mushroom Observer on Jan. 29, 2021.
Terrestrial in forest of the central mountains, digitate processes on pileus surface unlike any mushroom I have seen. Clamp connections apparently absent or rare.
Growing directly from wood
Tiny - maybe 1mm
Will upload micro pics soon
Thin white crust parasitizing Phlebia tremellosa. 6-8 sterigmata. Gloeocystidia present. Pine Barrens.
Hardwood. Park. The scattered teeth look like frosted glass, and watery. Agreeable sweet fungal smell.
Substrate: Tsuga
Collectors: Hansbrough/Spaulding
Observed during the Crust Fungi Workshop taught by Dr. Karen Nakasone at the 2016 Northeast Mycological Foray (NEMF) held in Fitchburg, Massachussetts.
Growing scattered on hardwood twigs with black rhizomorphs. Locally abundant. Caps 0.6 to 2.2 cm wide. Stems 0.7 to 1.6 cm long and 0.1 cm wide. Slowly drying yellowish-orange. Odor not distinctive. Caps and gills turning brown after drying (examined in February 2024). Spore print white. Pileipellis covered with pileocystidia similar in morphology to the lamellar cystidia. Clamps present in the lamellar trama. Pleurocystidia and cheilocystidia present. Cheilocystidia hyaline; smooth; lageniform, utriform, fusiform, or tibiiform; appearing yellow in dried basidiocarps at low magnification. Basidia 4-sterigmate and basally clamped. Spores hyaline, smooth, and thin-walled. Spore measurements: (7.5) 12.1 – 16.7 (17.6) × (3.5) 3.9 – 5.7 (7.3) µm; Q = (1.9) 2.6 – 3.6 (4.3); N = 30; Me = 14.1 × 4.7 µm; Qe = 3
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Originally posted to Mushroom Observer on Feb. 7, 2024.
Growing on a fallen Quercus branch. Associated with a white rot. Caps hairy. Texture sappy. Strong sweet odor, citrus-like, like Tang. Collection also pictured at https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/143578123
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Originally posted to Mushroom Observer on Apr. 23, 2023.
A-3049
Collector: Cara Coulter
Spore Sizes:
(8.5)8.5-12.5 x (3.5)2.86-4.32 µm
38 spores measures from mature fresh specimen.
Specimen:
3.5cm to 2cm in length
Cap Size: .4-.6cm
Coloration:
Cream colored cap with gradual transition about halfway down the stipe to a darkened brown foot
Specimen found growing on log that was submerged in water. Half of the specimen's stipe was under water.
Habitat: Inundated sphagnum area with a mix of Hemlock, Birch, Maple and Rhododendron
On red cedar stump fallen in the past few years. White shelving growth which on the other side of the stump appeared shingling/fully resupinate. Encrusted cystidia and broadly elliptic to globose spores observed.
Abundant on site. Area with Doug fir, western hemlock, vine maple and alder. I was unclear if there was bruising, there were some that seemed to be slightly warmer in color on pores, but it was definitely not like the distinct bruising of Postia fragilis.