@carl-adam ; found in an ephemeral stream on limestone. Any ideas?
On mossy sandy ground in mature oak-pine woods.
Some of the prettiest and most distinctive entolomas I've found so far with pale blue pileus and stipe, and bright white gills.
WDV 643
Abaxial leaf surfaces covered densely and evenly with papillae at 60x magnification.
On a mossy hummock in rich cedar-hemlock-ash swamp.
WDV 586
Growing on Campanula, ID is a bit of a guess.
recently watched a webinar on Lichens , my friend Sharon nethercott showed me some she had seen recently. this was one of them
On lower surface of Picea bark. Apothecia K+ green (3rd image); sessile to .16 mm tall; spores simple, thick-walled, 3.7-4.9x2.0-2.2 um. Confirmed by Steve Selva.
On a recently fallen basswood trunk.
Lower thallus completely black.
Abundant rhizines.
Pseudocyphellae circular.
WDV 527
Spores needle-shaped, many septate; apothecia K+ purplish red; thallus not granular
Small brown jelly fungi was growing on Crataegus branch.
Basidiospores hyaline, allantoid measured
*(11.8) 12.1 - 13.4 (14.2) × (5.6) 5.8 - 6.38 (6.4) µm
Q = (1.9) 2 - 2.2 (2.4) ; N = 12
Me = 12.7 × 6 µm ; Qe = 2.1
Basidia 4-sterigmate, longitudinally 4-septate.
Hyphae without clamps.
On sheltered limestone. Not apparent in photo but rock somewhat off colour where present/thallus white-yellow. Spores 20x5um.
Dry-mesic loamy till under hawthorns and Scots pine.
Spores 8-10 x 5-6 μm
Odor not distinctive
WDV 515
Canada, Ontario, Norfolk Co., Long Point Provincial Park
On a sand dune.
Stipe bulbous.
Exoperidium membranous.
Spores 4-7 μm, verrucose.
Keyed using the fantastic key by Honan (2021).
WDV 503
Stalk in K (Photo 3). Spores simple, 5-7.5μm. Stalk green with vertical hyphae, Some K+ yellow in stalk. Seems to associate with Lecanora thysanophora which tested K+ yellow (Photo 8).
On old cones (~1-3 years old) of cucumber magnolia (Magnolia acuminata).
First Canadian record.
WDV 468
On north-facing shaded sandstone. Not sure if it's even a lichen, or free living cyanobacteria or something else
seems like a notable area record...rich sandy soil of succeeded pine plantation; acer, quercus, fraxinus, ostrya, etc
Under a variety of oaks.
Like C. fallax but pseudogills are much more developed.
Odor strong, fruity, distinctive.
WDV 334
Identified as Pseudofistulina radicata on the Mushroom Identification Forum on FB.
Apparently rooted in soil in mesic sandy-gravelly oak woodland. Under red oak (Quercus rubra), hop-hornbeam (Ostrya virginiana), and witch hazel (Hamamelis virginiana).
WDV 370
Woody nodules caused by the fungal pathogen Diaporthe c.f. caryae on bitternut hickory (Carya cordiformis).
All of the nodules we found were being decomposed by Marasmius rotula (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/175420323).
On a fallen twig in conifer swamp. Partially submerged.
10 anthers, white; rhombic, shiny leaves with cuneate bases; glabrous inflorescence branches; glandular-serrated sepals
Discoloration on leaves of harbinger-of-spring (Erigenia bulbosa). Viral? Fungal? Doesn't appear to be environmental damage.
Fairly sure these are M. virginiana. In dry, rocky oak-hickory woodland.
On limestone. Foliose thalli are 2-5 mm. Margins have abundant isidia/lobules. Phycobiont is filamentous Nostoc. Pseudocortex. Thalli attached at a single point by white hairs.
Dense groups under white spruce.
RGT221104/03, at base of dead, standing white pine, Warbler Woods
A very strange maple with leaves overall A. saccharum shaped but densely pubescent on abaxial surfaces and petioles. Doesn't resemble the black maples (A. nigrum) I'm familiar with from rich bottomlands in the Carolinian zone, which have leaves pubescent on both surfaces with shallow sinuses and blunt lobes.
Growing in shallow soil over limestone bedrock in a degraded treed alvar-like community.
Massassauga Point Conservation Area, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada.
hardwood. Microscopy included. Vouchered.
Achene tubercle longer than wide, lowest scale wraps >75% around culm.
All specimens identified during RBGs 2018 BioBlitz event were predominantly identified using macromorphology. Specimens have NOT been confirmed using DNA sequencing techniques. Substrate: dead branch.
On open sandy soil; spores non-septate, 8 per ascus; ascomata K-
On basal bark of Prunus serotina in disturbed bottomland forest; spores relatively large, 27.0 x 11.4 um (of 5)
Apparently an undescribed species with excavate soralia and relatively small spores (averaging 15.1 x 7.8 um of 7). Arrows denoting perithecia in 2nd photo.
On decorticated, attached Malus branch.
Spores fragments measure
(5.8) 6 - 8.1 (9.1) × (3.1) 3.5 - 4.19 (4.2) µm
Q = (1.4) 1.5 - 2.3 (2.5) ; N = 22
Me = 7.1 × 3.8 µm ; Qe = 1.9
Asci 250-260x13-14um.
Propolis farinosa was next to it.
Tiny gilled mushrooms grew on incubated deer dung.
Cap is about 3mm and stalk is around 3-4cm.
Spores are dark brown with a germ pore, measure in H2O
(6.9) 7.6 - 9.4 (9.6) × (3.7) 3.8 - 4.3 (4.4) µm
Q = (1.8) 1.9 - 2.3 (2.5) ; N = 34
Me = 8.6 × 4 µm ; Qe = 2.1
Cap 1 cm, cream with darker spots, orange gills, stem striate, cream at apex, greenish-blue at base, spore print: pale, growing solo in the duff beside a poplar log with white pine, cedar, alder, and poplar nearby
Lichenicolous on Porpidia albocaerulescens; spores small, brown, 1-septate
Plains Emerald...? -> ! At Nashville Conservation Reserve, Kleinberg ON. Habitat was a long-grass type area interspersed with rows of younger planted pines. Short appendages, yellow face, pattern and colour match. Basal plate match.
ground under pine
If anyone can tell me what this is, you’re amazing!
Nutlets not potted, calyx lobes entire, lobes of leaves relatively blunt and restricted to beyond middle of leaf. Dry oak-hickory hedgerow.