#Hexagonia hydnoides

[bansheehaunt]

Hexagonia hydnoides

[memoriesofthepark]

Hairy hexagonia 》 Hexagonia hydnoides

Some nice hexagonia growing on 2 different stumps in the park.

Southeast Texas, 30 June 2024

[lavosse]

mushrooms and chickens 😌

[thegrandimago]

This is the 242nd installment of 'Since I've Been Gone'. Taken on 2021 6th April during my time with @americanconservationexperience, this was a fruiting body of a hairy hexagenia (Hexagenia hydnoides). They would often grow on dead trees there in Laguna Atascosa. #fungus #fungi #funguses #texasfungi #texasnature #txfungi #txnature #nature #bracketfungus #bracketfungi #shelffungus #shelffungi #polypore #polypores #basidiomycota #basidiomycetes #basidiomycete #agaricomycotina #agaricomycetes #hymenochaetales #hymenochaetaceae #polyporales #poroidfungi #poroidfungus #saprobe #saprobicfungi #aceinspires #hexagonia #hexagoniahydnoides #hairyhexagonia (at Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYNYQ3lLGT2/?utm_medium=tumblr

[syngoniums]

Hexagonia hydnoides.

[memoriesofthepark]

Update! A couple of these shelves fell so I got to take a closer look at them!!

At first I suspected they were Hairy Hexagonia 》 Hexagonia hydnoides due to their color and fuzzy upper surface, but I didn't see any examples of that species growing in such robust formations.

I believe they are actually a very old and crusty specimen of Shaggy brackets 》 Inonotus hispidus which according to a couple of sources do turn a dark brown/black color with age, and I can see a bit of that rusty red hue still peeking through. And as a lovely bonus, this darling little zale moth 》 genus Zale was resting amid the shelves.

I was so glad to have the chance to get to know these guys from up close after admiring them from the ground for a while. Fate hath truly smiled upon me. 🧡

Southeast Texas, 19 April 2024

This is your reminder to look up while you're out on a foray!

I tend to keep my nose in the dirt while I'm shrooming, but look what I found on campus! I wasn't able to get a good enough look for an ID, but we have some big beautiful polypore shelves here.

The past week has been very up and down emotionally but I'll focus on the highlights.

I got to drive up to Austin and see Merlin Sheldrake's new documentary Fungi: Web of Life at the Bullock museum!! It was fantastic and the first 3D movie I've seen in maybe a decade. It was very beginner friendly (and too short imo lol, about 45 minutes long) but still wildly interesting! I can't imagine what it must feel like to hold a sample collected by Darwin himself!

After the doc we found a cool vegan food truck in town, and I got to try lions mane for the first time! It was fried and soooooo good. 🤤

The doc seems to be running in a lot of museums nationwide thru August. I highly recommend checking it out if you get the chance!

Southeast Texas, 26 Mar. 2024