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Hypomyces lactifluorum

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Hypomyces_lactifluorum.html

Ecology: Parasitic on species of Russula, Lactarius, and Lactifluus—especially Russula brevipes, Lactarius deceptivus, and other members of the Lactarius piperatus group; summer and fall, or over winter in warm climates; originally described from North Carolina (von Schweinitz 1822); widely distributed in North America throughout Canada, the United States, and Mexico. The illustrated and described collections are from Georgia and Michigan.

Fruiting Body: A hard, pimply, orange coating that attacks the host rapidly and soon covers all surfaces, disfiguring the mushroom; with old age the orange often darkens to purplish red.

Perithecia: Reddish brown to nearly black; usually visible to the naked eye.

Chemical Reactions: KOH on surface instantly dark purple, even in dried specimens.

Microscopic Features: Spores 30-40 x 5-7 m; fusiform; verrucose; apiculi about 5 m long, narrowing to a point; hyaline to ochraceous in water and KOH; septate once. Asci 200-275 x 6-10 ml cylindric; 8-spored. Subicular hyphae 3-10 m wide, septate, smooth, sometimes gelatinized, purple-walled in KOH.

Entoloma caccabus

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Entoloma_caccabus.html

Ecology: Saprobic; growing gregariously in bare soil under northern red oak, white oak, hop hornbeam, and persimmon; July; Coles County, Illinois.

Cap: 1-3 cm; planoconvex with a slightly incurved margin at first, becoming shallowly depressed, with a wavy margin and a small umbo; moist; bald; dark grayish brown to dark yellowish brown at first, fading markedly to medium yellowish brown (but often retaining a darker center); the margin becoming slightly translucent-lined with age.

Gills: Attached to the stem; nearly distant; whitish at first, becoming pink; short-gills frequent.

Stem: 2.5-3.5 cm long; 2-4 mm thick; equal; dry; bald or finely silky; whitish to grayish or brownish.

Flesh: Thin; insubstantial; watery whitish to brownish.

Odor and Taste: Mealy.

Chemical Reactions: KOH on cap surface negative.

Spore Print: Pink.

Microscopic Features: Spores 7-10 x 6-8 ; 5- to 6-sided; heterodiametric or occasionally nearly isodiametric; angular; smooth; hyaline. Hymenial cystidia absent. Pileipellis a cutis; elements 5-12.5 wide, brown to brownish in 10% ammonia, with intracellular pigment. Clamp connections present.

The trillums are blooming, which is nice in and of itself, but is also an indictor that the spring fungi should be arriving soon. If I'm lucky, there'll be some morels and verpas where I found them last year around this time.

Also, I learned recently that there’s not two morphs of Trillium: white and purple. But rather that the flowers start out white and change to purple over their lifecycle.

Chlorociboria aeruginascens

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Chlorociboria_aeruginascens.html

Ecology: Saprobic on well-decayed, barkless logs and sticks, including those of both hardwoods and conifers; evident as green-stained wood year-round, but the fruiting bodies typically appear in summer and fall; widely distributed in North America. The illustrated and described collections are from Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Québec.

Fruiting Body: Cup-shaped at first, becoming flattened or disc-shaped; 2-5 mm across; with a tiny stem (1-2 mm long) that may be central or somewhat off-center; upper surface bald, blue-green; undersurface similar.

Odor and Taste: Not distinctive.

Microscopic Features: Spores 6-8 x 1-2 ; subfusiform to nearly cylindric; smooth; biguttulate with a small oil droplet near each end. Paraphyses filiform; 70-80 x 1 ; apices subacute; hyaline. Terminal cells on excipular surface cylindric; often twisted or contorted; 1-1.5 wide; smooth.

I painted a whimsical Easter egg~

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In a Bavarian forest

Ischnoderma resinosum

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Ischnoderma_resinosum.html

Ecology: Saprobic on the deadwood of hardwoods; annual; causing a white rot that separates the annual rings in the wood and often smells of anise; appearing on recently fallen wood and on wood that has been down for several years, but not typically on well-rotted wood; growing alone, gregariously, or in overlapping clusters; usually appearing in fall; widely distributed in North America but more common in the Midwest and eastern United States. The illustrated and described collections are from Illinois and Wisconsin.

Fruiting Body: Usually presenting a well-developed cap, but sometimes appearing effused-reflexed or even resupinate.

Cap: 5-19 cm across; 3-9 cm deep; irregularly bracket-shaped, kidney-shaped, or nearly semicircular; broadly convex; when young quite thick and fleshy, with a finely velvety surface with zones of pinkish brown and brown, and a thick whitish margin; in maturity dark brown, sometimes with zones of blackish brown, fairly bald, dry, and tough.

Pore Surface: When young whitish, soft, promptly bruising brown; in maturity pale brown and hard; with 4-6 angular or round pores per mm; tubes 2-8 mm deep.

Stem: Absent.

Flesh: Whitish to dull pinkish brown and soft at first; darkening to brown and becoming tougher with maturity.

Odor and Taste: Not distinctive.

Chemical Reactions: KOH on cap surface black; on flesh negative to brownish or grayish.

Spore Print: White.

Microscopic Features: Spores 5-7 x 1-1.5 m; allantoid; smooth; hyaline in KOH; inamyloid. Cystidia not found. Hyphal system dimitic; generative hyphae of tube trama 2-4 m wide, smooth, thin-walled, hyaline in KOH, with clamp connections at septa; skeletal hyphae 4-6 m wide, with walls 1-1.5 m thick.

Cyathus olla

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Cyathus_olla.html

Ecology: Saprobic; growing scattered, gregariously, or in dense clusters; sometimes growing terrestrially, but often found on woody debris; frequently encountered on dead plant stems, including corn husks in cornfields and debris in canola fields; summer and fall; widely distributed in North America.

Nest: 8-15 mm high; 6-10 mm wide; cup-shaped or goblet-shaped; outer surface brownish to grayish, bald or minutely hairy to velvety (but not conspicuously hairy); inner surface bald and shiny, silvery gray to blackish; "lid" typically whitish to pale grayish, soon disappearing; outer edge flared open widely by maturity, frequently broadly wavy.

Eggs: To 3 or 4 mm wide; round to somewhat irregular in outline; usually somewhat flattened; gray to gray-brown or nearly black; sheathed; attached to the nest by cords.

Microscopic Features: Spores 10-14 x 6-8 m; ovate to ellipsoid; smooth.

Mosses and mushrooms and ferns, oh my
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Chonk.