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Magic Badger
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2nd Interesting Non-active. Peach Jellies
#28586808 - 12/17/23 12:47 PM (1 month, 10 days ago) |
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This is bugging me.. I'd swear I've either photographed this before or at least seen a picture and description of it, but I'm not finding it. I think that this is all the same organism, in different life stages - starting as very peach colored jelly ovals, hardening into little "barrels" - then a lighter peach-white colored jelly bursting out of them. Found on a well soaked piece of bark in a boggy area. If anyone recognizes this, you will be removing an itchy splinter from my brain 


-------------------- Disclaimer - I'm just a hobbyist and cannot absolutely guarantee any ID offered. I'm most familiar with the species found in the Pacific Northwest - those found in other parts of the world may vary considerably, so always do your own research to find out what grows in your area and what lookalikes you need to be aware of. Understand that many mushroom species cannot be 100% reliably identified by photographs alone, even by an expert, so it may not be possible to go beyond suggesting a probable genus.
Edited by Magic Badger (12/17/23 12:54 PM)
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Re: 2nd Interesting Non-active. Peach Jellies [Re: Magic Badger]
#28587067 - 12/17/23 04:47 PM (1 month, 10 days ago) |
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I’d consider Lycogala epidendrum
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Magic Badger
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Re: 2nd Interesting Non-active. Peach Jellies [Re: Mycoangulo]
#28587069 - 12/17/23 04:49 PM (1 month, 10 days ago) |
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Mycoangulo said: I’d consider Lycogala epidendrum
Good guess- but I know it's not that. It's definitely a jelly and not a slime mold.
-------------------- Disclaimer - I'm just a hobbyist and cannot absolutely guarantee any ID offered. I'm most familiar with the species found in the Pacific Northwest - those found in other parts of the world may vary considerably, so always do your own research to find out what grows in your area and what lookalikes you need to be aware of. Understand that many mushroom species cannot be 100% reliably identified by photographs alone, even by an expert, so it may not be possible to go beyond suggesting a probable genus.
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Re: 2nd Interesting Non-active. Peach Jellies [Re: Magic Badger]
#28587139 - 12/17/23 05:34 PM (1 month, 10 days ago) |
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Cool looking with its different stages. Something in Helotiaceae?
I'm very blank on this type of fungi.
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Re: 2nd Interesting Non-active. Peach Jellies [Re: Anglerfish]
#28587149 - 12/17/23 05:42 PM (1 month, 10 days ago) |
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Anglerfish said: Cool looking with its different stages. Something in Helotiaceae?
I'm very blank on this type of fungi.
Yeah - I think so... the "adult" stage looks very much like Exidia candida, but as far as I know, that one never looks like the other forms.
-------------------- Disclaimer - I'm just a hobbyist and cannot absolutely guarantee any ID offered. I'm most familiar with the species found in the Pacific Northwest - those found in other parts of the world may vary considerably, so always do your own research to find out what grows in your area and what lookalikes you need to be aware of. Understand that many mushroom species cannot be 100% reliably identified by photographs alone, even by an expert, so it may not be possible to go beyond suggesting a probable genus.
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Re: 2nd Interesting Non-active. Peach Jellies [Re: Magic Badger]
#28588537 - 12/18/23 03:25 PM (1 month, 9 days ago) |
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Magic Badger
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I had to go back to make a collection, but there were still right where I found them.. and not changed much. I got samples of all 3, in case they are actually different things, though I don't think they are.
If you (or anyone else) has any tips about drying such tiny specimens, I'd be happy to take them. I don't have a dehydrator, but I do have a toaster oven with, I believe, a dehydrate setting. Also... should I attempt to remove them from the bark.. The big jelly is bark free and the barrel type structures popped off without bringing much substrate, but the others are quite tiny and I fear the attempt to take them off will destroy them.
 I grabbed a sample of this too, for good measure. as it was growing on the same piece of wet bark..
I think it's maybe Flagelloscypha, but found little species information online.
Edited by Magic Badger (12/20/23 06:07 PM)
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