Double rainbow over the walnut tree
Near a saltwater creek, in sand. Lots of grasses, mugwort, wild bergamot around, evening primrose and young black locusts.
Globose spores that appear warted / ornamented
Marine Park, Brooklyn 3/30/2024
On a dry Boxelder (Acer negundo) branch. The fruiting bodies are presently closed up, but it's drizzling now, so I'm hoping they will open up when I check on them again in a couple of hours, and reveal the bright red centers.
Under a White Oak/Quercus alba. Blue fungal growth on surface observed separately: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/182519641
majestic creature................
big, young, fresh Calvatia, growing solitary on a cultivated lawn in a residential co-op.
I think this sp. is the best match. https://www.mushroomexpert.com/calvatia_cyathiformis.html
found under bark, growing on decorticated wood of a hardwood log that I think is Liriodendron tulipifera (but might be something else).
tiny fruiting bodies. the entire colony was about 20mm across, so I'd estimate each fruiting body to be only about 0.5mm across. it seemed like each cluster of ~4 fruiting bodies was on a stalk that was somewhat longer than that.
tentative ID based on resemblance to immature fruiting bodies here https://www.marylandbiodiversity.com/view/9089
The remnants of the universal veil are nearly tennis ball green.
Spores:
4.6-6.5 x 3.6-5.2µm
Me: 5.3 x 4.3µm
Q 1.2-1.4
Me Q 1.3
Found by infopetal. Same collection here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/174519895
Outside my front door, moving very slow
tiny, bright red, shiny spheres on a black crust fungus (Diatrype stigma?) on a detached hardwood limb, possibly a red oak. cv says Hydropisphaera but I don't trust it... possibly Nectria, or maybe a slime mold?
for the substrate: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/150281920
Tolypocladium NY01.
A nice flush found by Kelsey at the NYMS foray.
The last photo shows one of the truffles (Elaphomyces sp) that was attached underground to one of these Tolypocladium fruiting bodies.