Cook Forest area. Cooksburg, PA. During and after the Lincoff foray, not in state park but next to it. GPS not working in area, to remote for a signal, so location data is not exact. The closest reference would be past shelter 1 leaving the park next to private cabin. 54518
Mossy stump in hemlock
On standing dead hardwood tree.
In barnyard grass alongside fallen wooden fence post. Cap about one inch across, brown. Gills have strange veining on them, stem hollow. Spore print white.
aka Cinnamon Porecrust. Found on standing dead yellow birch tree, each raised cushion-like patch 3-6" across. Usually I see this flat, with obvious pore holes, but since this grouping is vertical, the pores are vertical as well. I see the same arrangement at http://tristram.squarespace.com/home/2013/2/11/cinnamon-porecrust-fungus.html.
Highbanks Metro Park; pinkish tan, honeycombed, on ground
Leaf litter. Under hemlock, oak, beech and birch.
A good comparison of fresh vs dried E. recisa. Gets a lot darker and harder to tell apart from E. glandulosa if you're just going by color. Unless it's in the moist leaf litter, it dries out quickly.
Distinguish Exidia from Auricularia due to its many folds and tendency to only grow on sticks (especially oak, I've observed). Auricularia has a cloudy look as it's covered in tiny hairs, where Exidia looks like semi translucent jelly.
Oysters are tenacious and will keep trying to fruit until it freezes or becomes too dry. Upon drying it tends to discolor yellowish. From my understanding, P. ostreatus is the cold weather species and P. pulmonarius is primarily found in the summer, then P. populinus occurs on Populus species (aspen and cottonwood, etc). I think ostreatus is darker in color but there is a lot of variability.
And then P. citrinopileatus, not native to the states, grows whenever it damn well wants.
At base of hardwood stump. Aborted forms alongside these normal Entolomas.
Hemlock, in Sphagnum moss. C. incognitus (conifer) or C. tubarius (Sphagnum)
On the ground on the side of a log near a steam. Deciduous. Strong smell. Radish perhaps. Something more like an antique shop.
On fallen cherry with Cinnabar-red polypore Pycnoporus sanguineus and Irpex lacteus
Brown cap, white gills, caps about 2" across, in leaf litter under mature oaks.
Under mature oaks in leaf litter, small white caps about 3/4" across with rusty orange stems.
Brown toothed oak crust, found on fallen oak branches.
Other
Scientific name: hymenopellis megalospora
Growing alone and in clusters.
Cap, ca. 5.to-6 inches diameter; brown with some red tones, cracked.
Stipes, ca. 1 inch diameter; tapering slightly from wider at the apex to narrower at the base.
Bruising. Cap, pores, stipe bruised blue immediately when damaged.
Cross-section bruised blue immediately when cut.
Thanks to Arleen Bessette for ID.