Very colorful individual
Growing in association with Ceratiola ericoides (Florida rosemary) in old dune habitat. Usually grows in clusters.
As a waxcap enthusiast, these were one of the most interesting collections I've ever made. Growing in white sand between forest edge and road. Poorly formed gills, mostly ridges and smooth hymenium on young specimens. Flat pileus. Large fruiting, (especially since most Hygrocybe spp. encounters involved only a single fruit) over 20 mushrooms, very small stature. Location approximate.
Second and third photo show specimen that was found in situ. I brought the specimens home and put them in a small container with a damp paper towel and a week later they formed fruit bodies as shown the rest of the photos
Natural infection of Chiromyzinae larvae (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) in
southern Chile by Tolypocladium valdiviae sp. nov. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.funbio.2022.12.004
On a downed White Oak (Quercus garryana) at Denman Wildlife Area.
2nd photo shows UV reaction.
Same log as https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/146928673 & https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/147080796.
Genus confirmed by DNA analysis (Scott Redhead). Unique species on two adjacent small oak stumps
On caterpillar, located in between the back parking lots on the lefthand side of the road across from chapel trailhead, in the grass, straight across from rock pile
Bog area next to open water.
Old growth habitat
Stipe dried bright red
Acanthanura 'Otways 2'
On mixed needle littter. In mixed conifer-hardwood forest with Pseudotsuga menziesii, Arbutus menziesii and Quercus chrysolepis.
Fischerula subcaulis
Mild, unremarkable truffle-y aroma. Multiple specimens found in one general area by truffle dog Rye. Primarily Douglas-fir. Truffles very firm, some with obvious recessed stipe-columella and others more subtle.
@corndog these were in Sphagnum… any idea?
Found by @thehyphaemovement
Found by Ulrike Kullik. Nigelia sp. has been suggested by Nigel Hywel-Jones. Infected by Syspastospora parasitica.
On a species of lantern bug (Zanna sp?)
An apparent mass infection of these bugs produced a carpet of bright yellow fungi on the forest floor.
Growing on what looks like a beetle grub.
Found in leafletters in a wet carrs. Accepted officially in Denmark as found no. 4 or 5.
On ant, in youngish open alder, Doug fir, cedar forest with stinging nettles and salmon berry. Some parasitized ants were in duff layer, some in moss on dead tree trunk.
Inocephalus. Viscid stipe. Same as previous observations. No odor.
Host ant attached to wood with mycelium
This observation is for the clusters of spikes on top of the mushroom in https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/97729121. @harsiparker and @ranmofod suggested that I look more closely at the spikes because they could be entomopathogenic fungi. I cut off a chunk of material around one cluster, and I realized that it was actually growing out of a decayed piece of wood that was lying across the top of the mushroom. There was a white spore-like powder under the spikes (3rd photo). Then I scraped the wood away from the spikes on one side. They were growing out of what looked like an insect pupa in a tunnel. I also noticed other tunnels full of sawdust within the wood (7th photo).
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/98231684 and https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/98232161 show arthropods that were on the large mushroom.
Originally I had no idea what this was. I thought it was a cordyceps as it has erupted from the body of a katydid or grasshopper. Someone has suggested pin mold, another has suggested slime mold.
Found positioned on a decaying log in subtropical rainforest next to a creek. We have recently had lots of rain and high humidity.
Via a cordyceps identification page on Facebook, Nigel Hywel-Jones commented "It is indeed spectacular, and rare. In 35+ years and over 20,000 collections in 12 countries I have found it once. On an adult moth. That is how rare it is. It is in the genus Sporodiniella and is a Zygomycete. It looks similar to Sporodiniella umbellata."
So I have now listed it as such.
Looks like a Cyana sp. moth in cage cocoon infected by Cordyceps fungus.
Fungi on an insect / spider carcass
Location: Makunda Christian Hospital, Karimganj District, Assam
Date: 1st October 2012
Equipment: Nikon D300s with Nikkor AF 28-105mm lens
Leucistic? The pigment in the ocular orbitals is making me hesitate on saying albino
Gills decurrent. Pileipellis a smooth clamped cutis without cystidia. 4-spored, inamyloid, subglobose with apiculus. Spores length=4.1–5.0µm (µ=4.5, σ=0.24), width=3.2–4.1µm (µ=3.7, σ=0.26), Q=1.1–1.4µm (µ=1.21, σ=0.08), n=20 minus apiculus. This is my best approximation to C. apricosus. The sequence data indicate it is Cuphophyllus section adonidi
An anamorphic fungus growing on the synnemata of a Gibellula sp. Gibellula conidiophores are visible underneath abundant hyphae of the presumed hyperparasite, in image 3. Suspected Hypocrealean.
Likely growing on a hemlock. Possibly s. fimbriata or s. contortipes based on Instagram conversation with Connor Dooley. Potentially quite rare parasitic species on the brown mushrooms in the photo. Any help is welcomed!
Collected during a Central New York Mycological Society foray, with Paula DeSanto (LongTooth) and students of the SUNY-ESF Mycology class.
Cap slimy, 1-2cm broad; stype yellow and slimy; gills decurrent. Gloioxanthomyces vitellina appears to be the current name, but most sources still list it as Hygrocybe vitellina at present.
Arctos record:
http://arctos.database.museum/guid/KNWR:Herb:10380
Fruiting from soil in a gravel road. Collection made, will update with micro.
Spores smooth, colorless, +/- ellipsoid, and measured 7.5-11 x 3.5-5 microns at 1000x with analog reticle. Stature, habitat, and spore size seem to be a pretty good match for Hemimycena ignobilis.
Found near Neskowin, Oregon by COCC student near sand dunes edge. Totally stumped!
Or something similar; found in undergrowth of mesic pine-oak forest
Found this Caecilian moving across open dirt at a landslide ~50 meters away from a stream. Elevation: 1720 m. I suspect that it is Scolecomorphus kirkii, though an expert would have to back that up.
This endemic caecilian was found under a rotten log in a forested area while observing chimpanzees in Nyungwe Forest National Park.
Mushroom, Bukhansan National Park (북한산국립공원), Seoul, South Korea
A highly charismatic hygrocyboid thing, and possibly a first record for the Neotropics.
Substrate: in mossy soil at base of tree beside trail. immediately adjacent to pasture.
Habitat: Habitat: Northwest Andean montane forest (NT0145)
Collectors: D. Newman & R. Vandegrift
Collection #: RLC1394
Photomicrography and molecular data forthcoming
Found growing from the soil near the buttress of a large fallen tree
found by Caitlin Hannah.
Noah Siegel collected, photographed, and vouchered a bunch more.