Camponotus floridanus major
Shale barren. Large population of several thousand. Last two photos showing two separate locations hundreds of feet downhill where there was a higher density of individuals.
Planned iNat stop just off the highway on the way to Wichita Falls from New Orleans on a road trip from Miami, FL to San Jose, California (Day 4 of 8)
This was thankfully a pretty long stop! All of my observations from this area:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=30.25777076663987&nelng=-90.29742668333328&on=2024-06-10&place_id=any&swlat=29.93102420354026&swlng=-91.01565788450516&user_id=joemdo
A. cf aureosylvatica
photos and found by Joelle Faith
Posting is for the smut forming fungus on smut grass. Grass posted separately. ROW along Ricefield Road. Thistlewaite WMA
Sandbog Death Camas Zigadenus glaberrimus at Cherry Orchard Bog State Natural area Preserve, VA
Growing on well decayed oak tree, no recent rain, hydric hammock, DNA ITS sample
Excessive amounts of micro shots, but the micro is just so beautiful on this slime.
On Pinxterflower (Rhododendron periclymenoides)
On raised sphagnum hummocks in poor fen. Fruiting bodies 1-2 cm
Spores globose, 10microns
On twig of Betula nigra
Conidia 30-37μm x 11-15μm
Variable in shape, 4-5 distoseptate.
Apical cell with a hyaline tip.
Curved, broadly fusiform to fusiform?
Cyptotrama asprata[syn C.chrysopepla].8602.20240111.dwb/alachua co. florida
Cortinarius 2. Sandy soil. White pine oak. Average spore size 12.5 x 4 microns.
Growing underwater in the river at a depth of about a third of a meter. Location was almost the same as a sighting from the previous week
Spores: (10.2) 10.3 - 11.5 (12.1) × (6.1) 6.3 - 6.65 (6.7) µm
Q = (1.6) 1.64 - 1.8 ; N = 9
Me = 11.1 × 6.5 µm ; Qe = 1.7
11.53 6.39
10.62 6.46
11.33 6.68
11.09 6.51
10.21 6.14
10.33 6.43
11.54 6.27
10.83 6.55
12.13 6.65
A really amazing-looking fungal leaf spot on what I think is Ficus aurea.
Growing in sand at the edge of a path under Coccoloba uvifera and Scaevola taccada. Caps dry to slightly tacky; up to 75.5 mm wide and up to 28.3 mm high. Stems up to 49.9 mm long and up to 26.5 mm wide. Stems and context slowly bruising brown. Odor slightly acidulous and fruity, a bit like green coconut. Taste not distinctive.
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Originally posted to Mushroom Observer on Apr. 21, 2023.
Substrate may be Pinus. Immersed perithecia emerging in a cushion-like stroma. There is white material between the ostioles. There is a yellow staining to the wood. Asci IKI-, 50-64 x 5-6µm, the spore bearing part 30-39µm. The spores are ellipsoid, light brown, with two guttules, 5-7 x 2.5-3µm, no visible septa. There is what appears to be a germ pore at one end.
A federally- and state-listed Endangered species. Jonathan Dickinson State Park, Martin County, Florida.
On Asimina sp.
Growing in association with Ceratiola ericoides (Florida rosemary) in old dune habitat. Usually grows in clusters.
wide range of colors, dark greyish blue to orange ocher. Most likely a new species or genus
Growing underside fallen burnt Quercus sp log at Ordway Swisher. smells like cilantro!
Growing on a Sabal palmetto.
Large population just below snow line on metamorphic ridge. Remarkable that within a few feet some were totally fruiting and some just emerging. Evidently blooms right after the snow melts.
Erumpent apothecioid pyrenomycete, 0.6-1.1 mm diameter, emerging from outer layer of bark. Asci 8-spored, bitunicate, 200-250 x 50-53 µm. IKI- Pseudoparaphyses septate with knob-like branches. Ascospores 50-67 x 20-24 µm, yellowish brown, muriform, starting as hyaline didmyospores.
Collection #: 2023MCB180
In wet sand of the south fork of the Tule River, Southern Sierra Nevada foothills, Tulare County , California.
I apologize for the not-great photos, but this is absolutely Peltigera gowardii, confirmed by Eldorado National Forest botanists. So stoked to have seen this rare unique lichen in its natural habitat!
on the lower trunk of a large Quercus rubra, in a Northern Red Oak / heath forest on a ridgetop near the Yadkin Valley Overlook east of Blowing Rock on the Blue Ridge Parkway, Watauga County, North Carolina, ca. 1170 meters elevation - May 18, 2021
No chemical tests done and no specimen made for what would be a significant new range extension.
Loop Road, Big Cypress National Preserve
Observed during the 2023 South Florida City Nature Challenge (CNCSOFLO)
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