#crown-tipped coral fungus

[wailveid]

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[myce]

went on a hike today

[aphermion]

Crown tipped coral

[vandaliatraveler]

Part 2: Early Summer Wildflower Palooza, Cranberry Glades. During the first week of July, as the orchids are peaking in the bogs and seeps, the first wave of summer wildflowers, including the milkweeds and beebalms, arrives in earnest, bringing a blaze of color to open meadows and bog and forest margins. In the old growth woods of the adjacent Cranberry Wilderness, an array of strange and beautiful fungi sprout from moss-covered logs and the forest floor.

From top: tall meadow rue (Thalictrum pubescens), also known as king of the meadow, a wetlands-loving perennial whose distinctive, cream-colored flowers are composed of thread-like stamens only; meadow phlox (Phlox maculata), also known as wild sweet William and spotted phlox, easily distinguished from other phlox species by its red-spotted stems; mountain wood sorrel (Oxalis montana); a ramp (Allium tricoccum) flower, which emerges in early summer on a leafless stalk, after the foliage has died back; a shiny hemlock varnish shelf (Ganoderma tsugae) assailed by pleasing fungus beetles (Megalodacne), rarely seen because they hide under leaf litter during the day and feed on Ganoderma fungi at night; a lovely colony of crown-tipped corals (Artomyces pyxidatus); the beguiling fringed loosestrife (Lysimachia ciliata), an aggressively-colonizing perennial that makes for a shady ground cover in native wildflower gardens; and that blazingly-beautiful mint, scarlet beebalm (Monarda didyma), whose storied history as a medicinal herb stems from its antiseptic and stimulant properties.

[mushlovearounddaworld]

Crown-tipped coral fungus

[fungusfocusedfreak]

Artomyces pyxidatus

(Crown coral, crown-tipped coral fungus)

[wildlifetracker]

Crown tipped coral fungus (Artomyces pyxidatus)

[dcmcboxers]

foraging diary 4

river level was very high today due to all the rain we got the past few days. excellent conditions for more mushrooms

from top left to bottom right:

some kind of rooter I think, fringed sawgill, crowned-tipped coral fungus, and trooping crumble cap.

I also found a nice patch of jelly fungus and collected more greenbrier.

here's some view of the water level

went up to my knees to walk through this section. very refreshing!

this area is usually more of a semi stagnant creek. so pretty.

[dykefungus]

Bark Mycena, Mycena corticola - Red Raspberry Slime Mold, Tubifera ferruginosa - Chocolate Tube Slime, Stemonitis splendens - Crown-Tipped Coral Fungus, Artomyces pyxidatus - Eyelash Cups, Scutellinia sp. - Moss Bell, Galerina hypnorum

[larkscap]

Artomyces pyxidatus, or the crown-tipped coral fungus is a rare find out here in the west. They’re far more commonly found on the east coast. Weird to think that this is a mushroom!

[farmerboy94]

Crown tip coral fungus I believe

[lionfloss]

Ray Palmer

[vandaliatraveler]

“A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.”

— Rachel Carson

The photos above were taken along the Virgin Hemlock Trail at Coopers Rock State Forest following a prolonged rain. The old forest's dripping green intensity, charged by early summer's electric, stormy atmosphere, reminds us that nothing really dies here; all matter is reabsorbed and repurposed and made new again. You can smell it in the wet moss, decaying wood, and humus. The forest is immortal and sentient and relentlessly renewing itself.

From top: Little Laurel Run rushing through the old hemlock forest like a gem-filled artery; partrideberry (Mitchella repens), a trailing, evergreen vine whose fragrant white flowers come in pairs; a tall, handsome whorled loosestrife (Lysimachia quadrifolia) in bloom at the forest's edge; white avens (Geum canadense), a shade-tolerant perennial of forest margins; swamp dewberry (Rubus hispidus), a bristly-stemmed relative of the blackberry; wild hydrangea (Hydrangea arborescens), also known as smooth hydrangea, a rapidly-colonizing woodland shrub with high wildlife value; running clubmoss (Lycopodium clavatum), an attractive, spore-bearing vascular plant; crown-tipped coral (Artomyces pyxidatus), an elegant, edible coral fungus that grows on decaying wood; and eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis), the forest's majestic benefactor, which can grow to over 100 feet high and live to be more than five hundred years old.

[maddenplayer2006]

friends and New Jersey

[mnmycology]

Crown tipped coral

June 25, 2019

[los-plantalones]

👑 crown-tipped coral fungus