The Chapel, St Michael's Mount, Cornwall, c.1930s - Photochrom Postcard

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@DanielleVossebeld/116372915087351617

Pretty great marketing campaign idea for a country, to be honest

Ductifera pululahuana

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

Ecology: Probably saprobic on decaying hardwood logs (typically after the bark has disappeared); late spring, summer, and fall (probably to be expected in winter in tropical and subtropical areas); distribution uncertain but documented in eastern and southern North America, and as far south as Ecuador.

Fruiting Body: A mass of individual whitish, jelly-like globs growing in close proximity and often fusing together to form structures reminiscent of exposed brains; individual globs up to about 3 cm across, irregularly shaped but frequently roughly fan-shaped; stemless; flesh thick and gelatinous. Older specimens may discolor somewhat yellowish, brownish, or even pinkish to purplish.

Microscopic Features: Spores 9-12 x 4.5-7 ; sausage shaped or broadly elliptical. Basidia longitudinally septate, with sterigmata to 75 long. Gloeocystidia present; often 80 long or longer.

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Itajahya galericulata

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

Ecology: Saprobic; growing gregariously in gardens and cultivated areas; summer and fall in the Northern Hemisphere, winter and spring in the Southern Hemisphere; originally described from Brazil; widespread in South America; in North America distributed in Texas and the southwestern United States; well documented in South Africa; reported from India. The illustrated and described collection is from Arizona.

Immature Fruiting Body: A whitish "egg" 2-3 cm high and 3-5 cm wide; surface smooth; when sliced revealing the stinkhorn-to-be encased in a gelatinous substance.

Mature Fruiting Body: 9-12 cm high; 3-4.5 cm thick at the widest point; more or less cylindric; hollow.

Head: 3-4.5 cm high; 3.5-4.5 cm wide; cylindric to slightly egg-shaped; hollow; surface appearing coarsely granular from a distance—the appearance resulting from the surface being composed of small wrinkled nodes of tissue, surrounded by dark brown spore slime; apex adorned with a calyptra—a large cap-like patch of whitish tissue exceeding the width of the head; apex sometimes perforated.

Stem: 6-8 cm high; 3-4 cm wide; spongy; hollow; finely pocked; whitish to yellowish; sometimes with adhering patches of volval material; base encased in a whitish to brownish, sacklike volva; attached to thin whitish rhizomorphs.

Odor: Foul while the spore slime is present.

Microscopic Features: Spores 3-4 x 1.5-2 m; elongated-ellipsoid; smooth; hyaline in KOH. Sphaerocysts of the pseudostipe 24-52 m across; subglobose unless compressed, and then irregular; walls 1-1.5 m thick; smooth; hyaline in KOH. Hyphae of the volva 3-10 m wide; smooth; thin-walled; septate; hyaline in KOH. Clamp connections not found.

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Globifomes graveolens

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

Ecology: Saprobic and possibly parasitic; appearing on deadwood and from the wounds of living hardwoods (primarily oaks); causing a white rot; annual, or perennial for a few years; summer and fall—or year-round in warmer climates; originally described from Georgia; widely distributed in North America east of the Rocky Mountains. The illustrated and described collection is from Ohio.

Fruiting Body: 10-23 cm high; 8-16 cm across; 6-10 cm deep; a mass of tightly packed, overlapping individual caps arising from a central core.

Individual caps: 1-5 cm across; semicircular to fan-shaped; planoconvex to flat; often drooping; bald or finely fuzzy; dry; with vague concentric zones of color; reddish brown to brown, becoming dull brownish gray with age.

Pore Surface: Grayish, becoming brownish to brown; not bruising; pores round and small (2-4 per mm), with thick dissepiments; tubes 2-4 mm deep.

Flesh: Granular in the central core; tough and fibrous in the caps; pale to dark brown; unchanging when sliced.

Odor: Not distinctive.

Chemical Reactions: KOH slowly black on flesh of dried specimens.

Microscopic Features: Spores not found; reported (Gilbertson & Ryvarden 1987) as 10-14 x 3-4 m; cylindric; smooth; hyaline in KOH; inamyloid. Basidia 4-sterigmate. Hymenial cystidia not found. Setae not found. Hyphal system trimitic: generative hyphae 3-5 m wide, smooth, thin-walled, hyaline in KOH, with clamp connections; skeletal hyphae 4-6.5 m wide, smooth, thick-walled, brown in KOH; binding hyphae 5-10 wide, very thick-walled, aseptate. Sclerids abundant in granular core context; thick-walled; reddish brown in KOH.

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#GutenMorgen Fediland. ☕
Gestern habe ich eine langjährige Beziehung beendet.
Mein altes Flegelmöbel ist für den Sperrmüll angemeldet und ein neues wird demnächst geliefert.
Habt einen schönen Donnerstag.

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Sowas von Schwanz-Meise...

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