tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10279728.post113733260953212904..comments2024-02-21T13:49:48.833-05:00Comments on SwampThings: Fungi, Anyone?swamp4mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03500364141244115390noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10279728.post-1139575441436464612006-02-10T07:44:00.000-05:002006-02-10T07:44:00.000-05:00I think what you are looking at is not a fruiting ...I think what you are looking at is not a fruiting body, but rather just some mycelium growing radially from a point of innoculation. So don't worry about trying to ID it.Sean McCannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00368981029465044365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10279728.post-1137845516416868452006-01-21T07:11:00.000-05:002006-01-21T07:11:00.000-05:00My Audubon mushroom book (a good reference, btw) h...My Audubon mushroom book (a good reference, btw) has two entries that *sort of* look like this.<BR/><BR/>Carbon Antlers, or Candlesnuff Fungus (Xylaria hypoxylon), but googling it doesn't produce much that looks like yours.<BR/><BR/>More like yours, Coral Slime, which is under the Coral Mushrooms but is actually a slime mold. Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa. Here's a pic that's not nearly as good as yours:<BR/>http://www.fscwv.edu/schools/scimath/neotropical/cer%20fru.htm<BR/><BR/>uerjyz - I'll leave this one without further comment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10279728.post-1137369923339074382006-01-15T19:05:00.000-05:002006-01-15T19:05:00.000-05:00LOL! Treebeard will win by default.I really liked...LOL! Treebeard will win by default.<BR/>I really liked this picture -- it reminded me of frost on a window pane.<BR/>Wish I could have seen it in person... :( He was out marking fire lines when he found a downed tree, literally covered in fungi. We've seen a lot of that thanks to Hurricane Isabel in 2003.swamp4mehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03500364141244115390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10279728.post-1137368751037924302006-01-15T18:45:00.000-05:002006-01-15T18:45:00.000-05:00I see the photo competition has begun.I see the photo competition has begun.R.Powershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04905593499136090763noreply@blogger.com