#Wrinkled Coral Fungus

[willoftrees]

forgot to share these with y'all

found these on our land~

Clavulina cristata: crested coral fungus/white coral fungus/wrinkled coral fungus

even got a pic of one with the *Helminthosphaeria clavariarum* infection :o

[mi5019liamcoughlin]

These are some of the notes as I plan out the 6 animations.

these are more rough notes than the previous ones so I'll translate my bad handwriting below.

at this moment in time, I'm planning to make a tree and use that as the object to project on. I also wish to make all the sound effects myself as I feel like it just adds to the experimental vibe.

Facts

Spores

I figured that one of the most well-known things about fungi is that they release spores and that would be a very interesting thing to portray in animation as I'm not used to making particle effects.

Fungi

Jelly baby (smooth greenish brown or yellowish cap and rough stem with jelly-like flesh on the inside)

Penny bun (brown cap with white edges and flesh with a slightly tan stem that has a net texture)

Idea: to make a particle effect in After Effects (fairly easy idea to come up with)

Sounds

Blowing into the microphone

Process

Growth

the life and death of the fungi is what I went for here watching it sprout and flourish then wither and die.

Fungi

Cordyceps (bright orange head, orange-yellow body with a rough texture)

Cultivated Enoki (small white caps and long spindly stems, usually bunched up together)

Oyster Mushroom (smoky grey or brown caps that are wavey with split edges sometimes and have white stems that spread into the cap giving the illusion that the stem isn't there sometimes)

Coral Spots (orangy-coral-coloured caps that often appear coming out of a dead tree)

idea: having multiple fungi pop up and die over time

Sounds

Popping sounds

Scratching on boards

Feelings

Spiders

While I am not afraid or uncomfortable with fungi many people are so to reflect that fear I want to turn a fungus into what I fear, spiders

Fungi

Devil's fingers (long tentacle-like red stems with lumpy black marks that, it has also been described as smelling of rotting flesh)

idea: stop motion-inspired spiders

Sounds

Clicking

wood tapping

Creativity

Colour (renaming Psychadelics)

one of the harder ones for me to associate with fungi until I thought of magic mushrooms and the types of psychedelic effects that one might expect in fiction.

Fungi

Fly agaric (bright red cap with white lumpy spots, the stem is white with a brittle texture and a skirt right underneath the base)

Amethyst deceiver (purple stem and cap, sometimes the cap appears warped)

Common greenshield lichen (pail green with a wrinkled appearance)

idea: warped spiral with mushrooms flying about

sounds

paper wobble

shaking clothes

Benefits

Symbiosis

this was by far the most difficult to come up with an idea for in all stages but ultimately I'm just gonna have the tree surrounded by relatively harmless fungi

fungi

Button mushroom ( a white or brown cap and a white stem with a double ring)

Common Morel (a grey, brown or white cap with a raisin-like texture and honeycomb-like groves, a white or cream stem)

Idea: fungi sprouting up and living in harmony with the tree

sounds

pops

Cautions

Decay

a big worry and concern when it comes to fungi is that some are poisonous and infectious to us and I wish to portray that here.

Fungi

Deathcap ( a flat yellow or olive-coloured cap, an off-white stem with a pinecone zigzag-like texture, a skirt by the hat and a swollen base surrounded by a white volva

Penicillin ( a small fluffy textured ball, mostly put in here as my family has a history of penicillin allergies)

Idea: fungus growing around the tree as bits of it rot off

Sound

paper ripping

Scratching

[silas-writes13]

Anatomy of a Soul

When you were young you went down to the river in the forest that you always retreated to. It wasn’t that you were an outcast, or that you were overlooked, it was just that the trees always seemed to hold some strange communion with you in a way no other living thing could. You’d sit on a rock by the river and hum some nameless thing just to be a part of the nature that surrounded you, to be as one with the cawing birds and the crawling earthworms. You knew you were different, made of flesh and viscera, but all you wanted was to be stone, bark, mycelium. 

One day many years later you went back and to your delight nothing had changed. The outside world had shifted of course, your parents moving away, your old bike rusting, but the forest had remained the same, growing incrementally in ways that didn’t change much of anything at all. You felt like you had grown too, in the same tune. You went down to the river as you had so many times and resting in the shallows among rocks and silt and flowing water was a body. This surprised you but also it didn’t. You recognized it. You were not disturbed. You crouched by the body in the river and sat on your familiar stone, taking out a notebook and a pencil. Humming, you began your work. 

Anatomy of a Soul

(you titled the page and thus it had begun. you would do it justice, you knew, hoping the body knew too.)

C. rugosa (wrinkled coral fungus)

grows out of the eyes of the body in the river and the way the thin white stalks twine and clump together reminds me of hands reaching up and outwards. no telling what the original eye color was -  the white hands claw out of the sockets and spread farther than they have any right to - maybe brown? brown would make sense, a dark, earthen brown or a light brown of the G. marginata (autumn skullcap) variety - deceptively plain, growing on decaying conifer wood, deadly. what would he have thought of that hypothesis, i can’t help but wonder.

H. peckii (devil’s tooth)

out of the heart region and down the chest forming a fairy circle of vibrant bleeding delights and at the center nothing, at the center maybe a portal if the stories are to be believed and I wonder if I put a stone in the center would it be taken as an offering or rejected? I know at least I’ve tried to live to appease the fae but maybe it’s too late and maybe he went too far astray of what he knew to be true and maybe he gave too much and they swallowed him whole. note: must test this later. 

C. militaris (caterpillar fungi)

out of the brain and why did I not address this first, you might ask, and the truth is it just emerged from the skull and outwards, club-shaped fruiting bodies reaching to heights almost equivalent to that of the C. rugosa of the eyes. a cycle that might typically take a moon and a half now occurring while I write, in mere seconds. how the way of things delights and astounds. 

C. archeri (devil’s fingers)

the body’s mouth erupts with them now, the white egg contained within the dark once-wet once-poetic confines behind the teeth choosing now to bear its seven red arms pushing the thin red lips open as they bloom, as tentacles, from their hidden chamber. are they your tongues, now, after death? 

O. nidiformis (ghost fungus)

appearing at once from the center of the chests’ fairy circle. the sun is setting ever-slowly and the body seems to shift as the fungi grows out of it in all places - fruiting bodies pushing up and out of the remains of skin until the body is covered in all manners of fungi of all classifications. O. nidiformis begins to glow. 

You close your notebook. Your purpose here has been served. 

You lie down in the river next to the body and it turns to face you. The wrinkled coral fungus growing out of its eyes bores into your brown eyes and you come undone. You understand, of course. You understand. 

You lean over and eat of the fruit of its body. One mushroom at a time, one stalk, one bulb. The body watches you in silence until you have taken the whole ecosystem of its repurposed remains into you. You turn away and stare up into the sky as the stars emerge. You’ve never seen them quite like this before.

The next day, or month, or year, you arrive again and sit by the body in the river. You take out your notebook. You catalog. You consume. Your body hums, in tune. 

[ifelten]

Rynket troldkølle (Clavulina rugosa)

En bemærkelsesværdig, helt hvid køllesvamp, som kan blive relativt høj (op mod 10 cm). Arten findes både i nåleskov og løvskov, og den er udbredt.

Wrinkled Coral Fungus / Wrinkled Club (Clavulina rugosa)

A remarkable, entirely white club fungus which can grow to about 10 cm. in heigth. It is found in coniferous and deciduous woods alike and is widespread.

[lovecraftsgarden]

Clavulina rugosa

Wrinkled Coral Fungus

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[foragingincanadamb]

(Don't eat them raw ever even after being dried)

If you see this post please get your own information.Don't want anyone getting sick! or worse!

Black moral

Find:especially under white ash,also under tulip poplars, oak, and hickory.

Time:springtime

Description:Honeycombed cap with black to brownish black ridges and yellowish brown pits; completely hollow. April and early May. Cap elongate and conical, with vertically elongated ridges and pits; ridges are black to brownish black, pits are yellowish brown; texture deeply pitted; hollow; bottom of cap is fused to the stalk. Stalk sometimes enlarged at the base; whitish; texture granular; hollow. Spore print white to cream. Spores magnified are elliptical, smooth. Spores are located inside the pits.

Size:Cap width ½–1½ inches; cap height: ½–2 inches; stalk length: 2–4 inches; stalk width: ½–1½ inches.

Look alikes: The poisonous false morels are reddish and have wrinkled, lobed, or brain-shaped caps and dense (not hollow) stalks. The bottom half of the cap of the half-free morel hangs free from the stalk.

Bear's Head Tooth

Find:grow on dead or dying wood and shaded areas of deciduous and alpine forests.

Time:late summer and autumn months

Description:Edible when young – be sure it is white.Is white when fresh and yellows with age. It has long spines and a branched fruiting body. The fungus is 15-30cm (6-12”) across. It is a tightly branched structure which develops from a rooted base. When young, before the branches have developed.

Look alikes:edible mushroom lion’s mane(on L) does not branch even in maturity.May slow blood clotting.Its spines are long, though not quite as long as those of bear’s head.those who are pregnant or breast feeding should not take Lion's Mane.edible mushroom comb tooth or coral tooth(on R) has a very similar branching structure, but its spines remain very short. It does indeed resemble a branched hard coral, or possibly a small tree branch feathered with hoarfrost.

Golden Chanterelle

Find:They require established woodland to grow.They’re most commonly found around maple, beech, poplar, birch and oak trees.  In some areas, they’re associated with pine and fir trees, so it doesn’t have to be hardwood.require moist habitat, and they’re most abundant in wet summers with consistent rain.

Description:Chanterelles have forked ridges on their underside, and the forking is a characteristic of true chanterelle mushrooms.They’re not exactly true gills, and they have blunt edges.The ridges run down the stem of the mushroom, which is another identifier.Yellow to orange in color on outside.Growing as individual mushrooms(not groups) most of the time.Chanterelles always grow on the forest floor, never on wood.Thick, blunt ridges instead of true gills.Forked ridges rather than straight,The flesh inside is a pale creamy white, not orange like the surface.Smells sweet like fruit, like apricots.The cap edge is wavy, thin and irregular.

Look alikes:poisonous look alike Jack-O-Lantern (on L)mushroom is, in fact, an orange mushroom, that’s about where the similarity ends.  Jack-O-Lantern mushrooms have true gills, that are not blunt like chanterelle gills.  They also don’t fork or run down the stem of the mushroom.Lastly, Jack-O-Lantern mushrooms always grow on wood, often in groups rather than singly.This can be tricky though since the wood they’re growing on may be buried so that it looks like they’re coming out of the forest floor.Apparently, Jack-O-Lantern mushrooms taste quite good, but you still don’t want to eat them.They’re not deadly,but they’ll cause quite a bit of uncomfortable gastric distress.False chanterelles (on R)Deep, thin gills rather than the blunt gills of a chanterelle.Forked gills (like chanterelles)Cap edge is downturned and round.Center of the cap is darker colored, edge is lighter.Smell like a mushroom, not like apricots.

[maydaymadier]

I need the sun to break Original concept/design for Old Caduceus belongs to @thecruixe [ID: a digital painting of Fjord and Caduceus from Critical Role. They are both depicted as elderly with white/gray hair and deep wrinkles. Both are depicted from the waist up with Fjord seated in front of Caduceus. Caduceus has his head bowed to press a kiss to the top of Fjord's head while he sleeps. Caduceus is draping a turquoise robe with coral colored fungus growing on one sleeve over Fjord's shoulders as he sleeps. The background features a simple sunset filled with warm orange and pink tones. END ID]

[mikepots83]

Clavulina rugosa, or wrinkled coral fungus. This is an edible form of coral fungus. Of all the fungi around, coral fungus are my favorite. Their shapes are inspiring to me. . . . #clavulina #clavulinarugosa #wrinkledcoralfungus #coralfungus #fungi #fungus #fungusamongus #wncmountains #blueridgemountains #southernappalachia #upperhickorynutgorge #gerton #gertonstrong #mountaingarden #shadeplants #shadegarden #maker #inspiration #inspirational #ilovegardening #ilovewhereilive (at Gerton, North Carolina) https://www.instagram.com/p/CC3ecewjz8v/?igshid=15t744ota1c34

[jclema]

Wrinkled Coral Fungus #mushroomlover #fungusphotography #fungifreaks #dark_macro_art #mycology #mushroomphotography #shrooms #mushroomsofinstagram #mycophoria (at Menzies Creek, Victoria, Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CABv-EbAjGa/?igshid=1w5fvbmv6vf0m

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[debrasanchez-blog]

12-28 Clavulina rugosa, commonly known as the wrinkled coral fungus. #garrovillas http://dlvr.it/Q80b9J

[readbookywooks]

Strolling the Plains

THIS CELL, properly speaking, was the Nautilus's arsenal and wardrobe. Hanging from its walls, a dozen diving outfits were waiting for anybody who wanted to take a stroll. After seeing these, Ned Land exhibited an obvious distaste for the idea of putting one on. "But my gallant Ned," I told him, "the forests of Crespo Island are simply underwater forests!" "Oh great!" put in the disappointed harpooner, watching his dreams of fresh meat fade away. "And you, Professor Aronnax, are you going to stick yourself inside these clothes?" "It has to be, Mr. Ned." "Have it your way, sir," the harpooner replied, shrugging his shoulders. "But speaking for myself, I'll never get into those things unless they force me!" "No one will force you, Mr. Land," Captain Nemo said. "And is Conseil going to risk it?" Ned asked. "Where master goes, I go," Conseil replied. At the captain's summons, two crewmen came to help us put on these heavy, waterproof clothes, made from seamless india rubber and expressly designed to bear considerable pressures. They were like suits of armor that were both yielding and resistant, you might say. These clothes consisted of jacket and pants. The pants ended in bulky footwear adorned with heavy lead soles. The fabric of the jacket was reinforced with copper mail that shielded the chest, protected it from the water's pressure, and allowed the lungs to function freely; the sleeves ended in supple gloves that didn't impede hand movements. These perfected diving suits, it was easy to see, were a far cry from such misshapen costumes as the cork breastplates, leather jumpers, seagoing tunics, barrel helmets, etc., invented and acclaimed in the 18th century. Conseil and I were soon dressed in these diving suits, as were Captain Nemo and one of his companions - a herculean type who must have been prodigiously strong. All that remained was to encase one's head in its metal sphere. But before proceeding with this operation, I asked the captain for permission to examine the rifles set aside for us. One of the Nautilus's men presented me with a streamlined rifle whose butt was boilerplate steel, hollow inside, and of fairly large dimensions. This served as a tank for the compressed air, which a trigger-operated valve could release into the metal chamber. In a groove where the butt was heaviest, a cartridge clip held some twenty electric bullets that, by means of a spring, automatically took their places in the barrel of the rifle. As soon as one shot had been fired, another was ready to go off. "Captain Nemo," I said, "this is an ideal, easy-to-use weapon. I ask only to put it to the test. But how will we reach the bottom of the sea?" "Right now, professor, the Nautilus is aground in ten meters of water, and we've only to depart." "But how will we set out?" "You'll see." Captain Nemo inserted his cranium into its spherical headgear. Conseil and I did the same, but not without hearing the Canadian toss us a sarcastic "happy hunting." On top, the suit ended in a collar of threaded copper onto which the metal helmet was screwed. Three holes, protected by heavy glass, allowed us to see in any direction with simply a turn of the head inside the sphere. Placed on our backs, the Rouquayrol device went into operation as soon as it was in position, and for my part, I could breathe with ease. The Ruhmkorff lamp hanging from my belt, my rifle in hand, I was ready to go forth. But in all honesty, while imprisoned in these heavy clothes and nailed to the deck by my lead soles, it was impossible for me to take a single step. But this circumstance had been foreseen, because I felt myself propelled into a little room adjoining the wardrobe. Towed in the same way, my companions went with me. I heard a door with watertight seals close after us, and we were surrounded by profound darkness. After some minutes a sharp hissing reached my ears. I felt a distinct sensation of cold rising from my feet to my chest. Apparently a stopcock inside the boat was letting in water from outside, which overran us and soon filled up the room. Contrived in the Nautilus's side, a second door then opened. We were lit by a subdued light. An instant later our feet were treading the bottom of the sea. And now, how can I convey the impressions left on me by this stroll under the waters. Words are powerless to describe such wonders! When even the painter's brush can't depict the effects unique to the liquid element, how can the writer's pen hope to reproduce them? Captain Nemo walked in front, and his companion followed us a few steps to the rear. Conseil and I stayed next to each other, as if daydreaming that through our metal carapaces, a little polite conversation might still be possible! Already I no longer felt the bulkiness of my clothes, footwear, and air tank, nor the weight of the heavy sphere inside which my head was rattling like an almond in its shell. Once immersed in water, all these objects lost a part of their weight equal to the weight of the liquid they displaced, and thanks to this law of physics discovered by Archimedes, I did just fine. I was no longer an inert mass, and I had, comparatively speaking, great freedom of movement. Lighting up the seafloor even thirty feet beneath the surface of the ocean, the sun astonished me with its power. The solar rays easily crossed this aqueous mass and dispersed its dark colors. I could easily distinguish objects 100 meters away. Farther on, the bottom was tinted with fine shades of ultramarine; then, off in the distance, it turned blue and faded in the midst of a hazy darkness. Truly, this water surrounding me was just a kind of air, denser than the atmosphere on land but almost as transparent. Above me I could see the calm surface of the ocean. We were walking on sand that was fine-grained and smooth, not wrinkled like beach sand, which preserves the impressions left by the waves. This dazzling carpet was a real mirror, throwing back the sun's rays with startling intensity. The outcome: an immense vista of reflections that penetrated every liquid molecule. Will anyone believe me if I assert that at this thirty-foot depth, I could see as if it was broad daylight? For a quarter of an hour, I trod this blazing sand, which was strewn with tiny crumbs of seashell. Looming like a long reef, the Nautilus's hull disappeared little by little, but when night fell in the midst of the waters, the ship's beacon would surely facilitate our return on board, since its rays carried with perfect distinctness. This effect is difficult to understand for anyone who has never seen light beams so sharply defined on shore. There the dust that saturates the air gives such rays the appearance of a luminous fog; but above water as well as underwater, shafts of electric light are transmitted with incomparable clarity. Meanwhile we went ever onward, and these vast plains of sand seemed endless. My hands parted liquid curtains that closed again behind me, and my footprints faded swiftly under the water's pressure. Soon, scarcely blurred by their distance from us, the forms of some objects took shape before my eyes. I recognized the lower slopes of some magnificent rocks carpeted by the finest zoophyte specimens, and right off, I was struck by an effect unique to this medium. By then it was ten o'clock in the morning. The sun's rays hit the surface of the waves at a fairly oblique angle, decomposing by refraction as though passing through a prism; and when this light came in contact with flowers, rocks, buds, seashells, and polyps, the edges of these objects were shaded with all seven hues of the solar spectrum. This riot of rainbow tints was a wonder, a feast for the eyes: a genuine kaleidoscope of red, green, yellow, orange, violet, indigo, and blue; in short, the whole palette of a color-happy painter! If only I had been able to share with Conseil the intense sensations rising in my brain, competing with him in exclamations of wonderment! If only I had known, like Captain Nemo and his companion, how to exchange thoughts by means of prearranged signals! So, for lack of anything better, I talked to myself: I declaimed inside this copper box that topped my head, spending more air on empty words than was perhaps advisable. Conseil, like me, had stopped before this splendid sight. Obviously, in the presence of these zoophyte and mollusk specimens, the fine lad was classifying his head off. Polyps and echinoderms abounded on the seafloor: various isis coral, cornularian coral living in isolation, tufts of virginal genus Oculina formerly known by the name "white coral," prickly fungus coral in the shape of mushrooms, sea anemone holding on by their muscular disks, providing a literal flowerbed adorned by jellyfish from the genus Porpita wearing collars of azure tentacles, and starfish that spangled the sand, including veinlike feather stars from the genus Asterophyton that were like fine lace embroidered by the hands of water nymphs, their festoons swaying to the faint undulations caused by our walking. It filled me with real chagrin to crush underfoot the gleaming mollusk samples that littered the seafloor by the thousands: concentric comb shells, hammer shells, coquina (seashells that actually hop around), top-shell snails, red helmet shells, angel-wing conchs, sea hares, and so many other exhibits from this inexhaustible ocean. But we had to keep walking, and we went forward while overhead there scudded schools of Portuguese men-of-war that let their ultramarine tentacles drift in their wakes, medusas whose milky white or dainty pink parasols were festooned with azure tassels and shaded us from the sun's rays, plus jellyfish of the species Pelagia panopyra that, in the dark, would have strewn our path with phosphorescent glimmers! All these wonders I glimpsed in the space of a quarter of a mile, barely pausing, following Captain Nemo whose gestures kept beckoning me onward. Soon the nature of the seafloor changed. The plains of sand were followed by a bed of that viscous slime Americans call "ooze," which is composed exclusively of seashells rich in limestone or silica. Then we crossed a prairie of algae, open-sea plants that the waters hadn't yet torn loose, whose vegetation grew in wild profusion. Soft to the foot, these densely textured lawns would have rivaled the most luxuriant carpets woven by the hand of man. But while this greenery was sprawling under our steps, it didn't neglect us overhead. The surface of the water was crisscrossed by a floating arbor of marine plants belonging to that superabundant algae family that numbers more than 2,000 known species. I saw long ribbons of fucus drifting above me, some globular, others tubular: Laurencia, Cladostephus with the slenderest foliage, Rhodymenia palmata resembling the fan shapes of cactus. I observed that green-colored plants kept closer to the surface of the sea, while reds occupied a medium depth, which left blacks and browns in charge of designing gardens and flowerbeds in the ocean's lower strata. These algae are a genuine prodigy of creation, one of the wonders of world flora. This family produces both the biggest and smallest vegetables in the world. Because, just as 40,000 near-invisible buds have been counted in one five-square-millimeter space, so also have fucus plants been gathered that were over 500 meters long! We had been gone from the Nautilus for about an hour and a half. It was almost noon. I spotted this fact in the perpendicularity of the sun's rays, which were no longer refracted. The magic of these solar colors disappeared little by little, with emerald and sapphire shades vanishing from our surroundings altogether. We walked with steady steps that rang on the seafloor with astonishing intensity. The tiniest sounds were transmitted with a speed to which the ear is unaccustomed on shore. In fact, water is a better conductor of sound than air, and under the waves noises carry four times as fast. Just then the seafloor began to slope sharply downward. The light took on a uniform hue. We reached a depth of 100 meters, by which point we were undergoing a pressure of ten atmospheres. But my diving clothes were built along such lines that I never suffered from this pressure. I felt only a certain tightness in the joints of my fingers, and even this discomfort soon disappeared. As for the exhaustion bound to accompany a two-hour stroll in such unfamiliar trappings - it was nil. Helped by the water, my movements were executed with startling ease. Arriving at this 300-foot depth, I still detected the sun's rays, but just barely. Their intense brilliance had been followed by a reddish twilight, a midpoint between day and night. But we could see well enough to find our way, and it still wasn't necessary to activate the Ruhmkorff device. Just then Captain Nemo stopped. He waited until I joined him, then he pointed a finger at some dark masses outlined in the shadows a short distance away. "It's the forest of Crespo Island," I thought; and I was not mistaken.

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11-28 Clavulina rugosa, commonly known as the wrinkled coral fungus. #garrovillas http://dlvr.it/Q3KgQ7

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11-26 Clavulina rugosa, commonly known as the wrinkled coral fungus. #garrovillas http://dlvr.it/Q30XSM

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11-17 Clavulina rugosa, commonly known as the wrinkled coral fungus. #garrovillas http://dlvr.it/Q1W4WJ