On hardwood (maple or tulip poplar). 2-3 pores per mm. Of gelatinous aspect; when touched it 'melts'. No clamps seen but simple septa on hyphal ends ~2.9-4.4 um wide with various forms, on dissepiments and on hyphae from context up to 7.4 um wide. It has an abrupt margin. Smells intoxicatingly sweet. Spores ~7.4 x 3.7 um and smaller. Basidia have 4 sterigmata. Unable to see them free. Spores 3.7 x 7.4 um. Pores start growing near margin. Delaware River beach edge. Park.
Hardwood. Delaware River beach. Waxy aspect of teeth. Crust is very delicate and of gelatinous aspect, falling apart when trying to get a sample. Pruinose from the abundant rosettes of crystals seen in the preparation. Spores are globose to subglobose ~7.4-8.6 um globose; and up to 7.4 x 8.6 subglobose. Clamps were seen in subhymenial hyphae 5.4 um wide. Teeth are of robust appearance. Teeth are scattered and almost 1mm long. When dry the crust turns waxy. Basidia 8.6 um wide have 4 sterigmata. Unable to see its base. There were few short scattered hyphae finger-like among palisade of basidia. There were also palisades of another long hyphae finger-like structures. Not 100% sure if there are gloeocystidia. I saw one structure looking like it but it could be a basidium: 44.7 x 7.4 um.
On driftwood. Delaware River beach. Red-brick hairs-like structures bundled like cushions. When younger the bundles form round structures. Fungus is made of branching hyphae that have septa and ornamentation. Spores of various sizes 1.2-3.4 x 3.7-4.9 um.
On driftwood. Delaware River beach. Found in the same area previously. Tough to touch. Barely forming caps. Coalescing structures, held to substratum by a central point. Some are growing only in resupinate form. Spores 2.4-3.7 x 3.7-4.9 um.
Hardwood. park. Waxy teeth of various forms; sometimes looking like pores; bursting through cracks in the wood. Third photo shows it when wet. Sharing wood with Phlebiopsis crassa.
Negative reaction to Melzer. Skeletocystidia ~4.9-6.1 um wide; sometimes inflated. Some skeletocystidia have abundant simple septa on them. Some hyphae seem different to skeletocystida and have thinner walls 3.7-4.4 um wide. Basidia ~19-20.9 x 6.1-7.4 um. Unable to see one single spore. Very faint sweet smell detected. 2 'pores' per mm. Polypore is thick and has a fibrose margin.
Toothed crust of waxy aspect with a fibrose lighter margin. Pine Barrens. On oak or maple.
The false truffle was 1.3 cm wide. Its surface is made of orange pyramids. Marble inside with some cottony areas. Spores are ornamented/nodulose, reaching 20.9 um the biggest. Asci" 209 x 32 um. Single. Above the ground as seen in photo in situ. At the edge of a creek; deciduous woods. 04-29-2023: I was getting a sample to extract its DNA and it was too hard to get it. I wet it and OMG! the smell was the most wonderful and delicious thing that made me want to eat it. We have a fruit in Colombia name chontaduro (Bactris gasipaes). It grows on a palm tree. The smell is close to it(after being cooked).
On a dead branch of Rhododendron bush, still attached. Spores 3.7 x 8.6-9.8 um. Basidium 27 x 6.1 um with clamp at base. Hyphae from context with double walls 2.4 um. Pine Barrens.
Waxy teeth/warts, on deciduous wood. Mixed hardwoods. Park. It has arboriform hyphae/cystidia(?) and basidia are very long. Several types of clamps. Spores 4.4 x 7.4 um have prominent apiculus.
Crust with teeth. Mixed hardwoods. Park. Small fruitbodies, with a narrow white margin. It starts as a round spot.
Mixed woods with hemlock. Preserve. The area was flooded during the fall. 3-4 pores per mm. delicate, thin, arachnoid, with delicate rhyzomorphs. White rot. Decorticate deciduous.
Crust with up to 0.75 mm long teeth. It has skeletocystidia with clamp at base and thick walls and incrustations at upper part; skeletocystidia are scattered at tip of aculei/teeth. It also presents pseudo capitate cystidia. Margin is fibrose with delicate fibers sticking up. On small deciduous branch. Swampy area. Pine Barrens.
On oak. Greenish tone of polypore when fresh. 2-1/2 - 3 pores per mm. Finely fibrose margin. Easy to take apart. After being wet, four days later it released an incredible sweet fungal smell. clamps are present. Spores 2.9 x 5.4 um.
On burnt maple or oak small stick. Growing with Stereum sp. Pine Barrens. Crust of pruinose aspect. Micro revealed dendrohyphidia and brown subhymenial hyphae with clamps. It also showed metuloids (lamprocystidia) with a dark brown hyphal base! KOH turned it darker. It has a dark brown line below hymenium. Edge has a different color and aspect. Interesting to note the pattern that it creates when it is dry; it creates cracks and small cuts and craters reminding of cuneiform scripture. Spore print is white.
On ground, in a swampy area. There were three units. Seems mycorrhizal. cap has flatten darker spots. Cap 2.8 cm; stipe 3cm. Spore print rusty. Stipe is sturdy and fibrose and ornamented with scattered white fibers. KOH turned it of honey color. It has cystidia with golden contents 55.2-62.4 x 9.8-11.11 um with round end. Basidia are 17.2 x 7.4 um and four sterigmata. Cystidia from cap is finely ornamented. Spores 7.4-7.9 x 4.9-6.1 um. with prominent apiculus.
On hardwood. Pine Barrens. Small fruitbody consisting of few scattered teeth and smooth hymenium. Teeth are made of bunched hyphae with clamps at base and lots of crystals 2.9 um wide. It presents echynocysts with clamp at base, doubled celled and many projections scattered on them. One measured 74 x 14.8 um. Spores are 4.9-5.4 x 9.8-11.1 um. Some spores have deformed shapes. It also has cystidia with papillae on tip and clamp at base 30 x 9.8 um. basidia 19.7 x 7.9 um with four sterigmata.
Peniophorella rude s.l.
Hidden among leaf debris. Aspect is arachnoid; with a disorganized aspect. In a seepage. Park. Perhaps Idriella lunata.
On rotten, deciduous wood, at edge of brook. Park. Spores are subglobose and finely ornamented ~7.4 x 6.1 um. Long gloeocystidia are present. Basidia are also long. Arms/tips of asterorosettes are 3.7 um wide. Resinous matter floating in preparation. Crust is thick and it was several decimeters long.
Soft balls-like fungi connected by thick threads. On rotten wood in a swampy area. I found them again in December in another park, hidden under rotten wood. Pine Barrens both parks. Same as in this observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/143236634 Hysterangialea?
Crust of velutinose aspect due to the presence of abundant exerted lamprocystidia/metuloids. With red guttulations. Spores ~8.6 x 3.7 um. Lamprocystidia have a bulbous base and thick walls ~13.5-17.2 x 79.2-93 um. On decorticated rotten wood. Mixed woods. Coastal Pine Barrens. Crust was examined in dry state and it was of waxy consistency. No smell detected after being wet.
On hardwood. Pine Barrens. Staining yellowish near edge of hymenium.
Odd aspect of effused/reflexed polypore. Some specimen are growing resupinate only, some have caps and some have aborted forms,. By the way, Armillaria mellea black cordons are mixed with it! One pore per mm. Negative reaction of spores to Melzer's. Spores 2.4-3.7 x 6.1-8.6-(9.8 large) um. Skeletocystidia 2.4 um wide; Hyphae from dissepiments 3.7 um wide. On side and top of dead hardwood. Side of island. Park.
Several decimeters in extent resupinate polypore. On hardwood fallen on the beach. Park. 2,5 pores per mm. Pores shine if seen from an angle. Margin is of fine aspect and cottony. Pores look finely velutinose.
On hardwood fallen on the beach. It has a greenish tone and a strong smell. Park. 6-7 pores per mm. When wet it becomes gelatinous. The strong smell rises again, a mix of fungus and sweet chemical smell. It is repugnant. Crystals of varied forms present and also, there are clamps. Basidia 22.2 2.7 um.
On hardwood fallen on the beach. Park. Spores 3.7-4.9 x 2.4-3.7 um with one drop. Skeletocystidia with incrustations towards tip. Double clamp connection seen. After being wet it released the most wonderful sweet intoxicating fungal smell. Basidia 20.9 x 4.9 um. Crust is made of teeth with various shapes.
Wrinkled crust of delicate aspect, with a loose subhymenium and hyphal runners. On Pinus rigidus bark facing the ground. Spores have a distinctive apiculus 3.7-4.9 x 6.1-8.6-(9.8)um. Swampy area in the Pine Barrens. It seems that C. tessulatus is an European name and ours is C. subapiculatus.
On dead standing and decorticated pine tree. Teeth fatter towards base; many have extra tips towards end of tooth. Halocystidia 8.6 um; cystidia with uneven width ~2.9 um. Spores globose-subglobose, one drop 4.9-5.4 x 3.7(+).um. Basidia with four sterigmata. Margin of crust is arachnoid and of delicate aspect where teeth start to form. It becomes more dense when mature and goes from white to cream when older.
On hardwood, side of creek. Pine Barrens.