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Growing on a rock. Hymenium smooth.

Unpleasant odor. As you can see from the leaf litter, both oak and pine are present.

Probably T. terrestris, but rather small.

Attached to pine root

Caps 1-2.5cm, small, odorless, without pores. a guess as epithet = maybe T. caryophyllea? - I believe these are Thelephora. Growth in forest with mostly Pinus.

Directly under hemlock.

Beech, oak
Growing through thick leaf duff and on well decaying hardwood

It is trying so hard to be a proper mushroom

Growing up and around everything in the area. Brown spikey spores point toward Thelephora.

Growing from soil

Growing under Carya illinoinensis

Growing from soil in predominantly hardwood forest. Fruiting bodies light orange. Stipe is solid and with a shaggy texture.

Originally posted to Mushroom Observer on Jun. 30, 2019.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/92427126
Fungee obs

Cantharellales "sp-IN01"
DNA ITS
Only matching seq is an environmental soil sample from IL.

Raw taste spicy when held on the tongue, but not lingering. Past experience tells me that they do not taste spicy when cooked. Nearby trees include sweetgum, oak, pine, chokecherry.

Growing in mossy yard adjacent to mixed wood forest. Raw taste test spicy on the tongue. No discernable odor. Will update with trees and micro.

On the stems of Cantharellus.

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Young Zelleromyces sp. growing in soil near pine trees. Reddish orange, with a paler orange (loculate) interior. Exuded white latex when cut.

No distinct odor, cap dry, not viscid when wet. Growing from the ground under red oak, hickory, and tulip poplar. Observed in same spot each December.

F643

Lots seen today.

In bare soil in a small alcove/crevice in a steep slope. Pine, kalmia, sweetgum, sourwood, maple, galax.

Found poking out of a hole at the base of a large red oak tree.

Found at PC Park

Hardwood log

Spined micrathena (Micrathena gracilis)

For the big mushroom, ~12” tall with a 6” diameter cap.
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