Growing on Loblolly Pine trunk in Orange Co., NC
27 May 2008
About the size of a fist. White outer skin was very thin and easily broken. Inner mass was very soft.
Growing on Loblolly Pine trunk in Orange Co., NC
27 May 2008
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Mystery fungus #4383 Growing on Loblolly Pine trunk in Orange Co., NC 27 May 2008 About the size of a fist. White outer skin was very thin and easily broken. Inner mass was very soft. |
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Mystery fungus #4383 Growing on Loblolly Pine trunk in Orange Co., NC 27 May 2008 |
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Caesar's Amanita (Amanita caesarea) Orange Co., NC 15 Sep 2006 This species of Amanita is reported to be edible. |
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Caesar's Amanita (Amanita caesarea) Orange Co., NC 15 Sep 2006 |
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Caesar's Amanita (Amanita caesarea) Orange Co., NC 15 Sep 2006 |
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Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria) Orange Co., NC 15 Sep 2006 This widespread and common species of Amanita is toxic. |
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Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria) Orange Co., NC 15 Sep 2006 This widespread and common species of Amanita is toxic. |
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Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria) Orange Co., NC 15 Sep 2006 |
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Amanita sp. #5192 Orange Co., NC 15 Sep 2006 This species of Amanita is likely deadly poisonous! |
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Amanita sp. Orange Co., NC 15 Sep 2006 |
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Amanita sp. Orange Co., NC 15 Sep 2006 |
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Amanita sp. Orange Co., NC 15 Sep 2006 |
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Armillaria tabescens Orange Co., NC 15 Sep 2006 |
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Armillaria tabescens Orange Co., NC 15 Sep 2006 |
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Hairy Bolete (Suillus hirtellus) Orange Co., NC 15 Sep 2006 |
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Hairy Bolete (Suillus hirtellus) Orange Co., NC 15 Sep 2006 |
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Hairy Bolete (Suillus hirtellus) Orange Co., NC 15 Sep 2006 |
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Hairy Bolete (Suillus hirtellus) Orange Co., NC 15 Sep 2006 |
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Gomphidius sp. Orange Co., NC 11 Oct 2006 |
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Gomphidius sp. Orange Co., NC 11 Oct 2006 |
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Gomphidius sp. Orange Co., NC 11 Oct 2006 |
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Gymnoppus iocephalus Orange Co., NC 15 Sep 2006 |
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Gymnoppus iocephalus Orange Co., NC 15 Sep 2006 |
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Melanoleuca maritima Growing in the sand dunes at Cape Hatteras Dare Co., NC 11 Nov 2006 |
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Stereum ostrea Orange Co., NC 24 Aug 2006 |
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Stereum ostrea Orange Co., NC 24 Aug 2006 |
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Stereum ostrea Orange Co., NC 24 Aug 2006 |
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Orange Jelly Fungus (Dacrymyces palmatus) Orange Co., NC 15 Sep 2006 |
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Orange Jelly Fungus (Dacrymyces palmatus)Orange Co., NC 15 Sep 2006 |
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Exobasidium vaccinii Brunswick Co., NC 15 May 2004 This fungus, growing on a blueberry shrub in a pine savanna, apprears to mimic a flower! |
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Exobasidium vaccinii Brunswick Co., NC 15 May 2004 |
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Cypress flower gall midge (Taxodiomyia cupressi, formerly Itonida anthici) Cumberland Co., NC 3 Sep 2006 Although this looks very much like a fungus growing on Bald Cypress, it's actually a gall produced by a type of fly in the family Cecidomyiidae! |
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Cypress flower gall midge (Taxodiomyia cupressi) Cumberland Co., NC 3 Sep 2006 Close-up of above |
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Cypress leaf gall (Itonida taxodii) Cumberland Co., NC 3 Sep 2006 This is yet another gall produced by a different species of fly in the family Cecidomyiidae. |
Thanks to Rytas Vilgalys, Jason Jackson and Greg Bonito for identification help!
Created on ... Sep 22, 2006 | jspippen@duke.edu