Serf Life
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Driad’s saddle, tastes like watermelon
Hey Look at My Crud...
- Thread starter JD3000
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data farm 26
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- Casablanca
Damn... and I just binned it without even tasting! Thanks for the id!
KTSmith
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- Maine, New Hampshire
What does the underside look like? Slippery jack is a bolete, meaning that the underside has pores. I betcha that these have somewhat decurrent gills. I'd start with the Jack O'Lantern mushroom, Omphalotus illudens.
KTSmith
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- Maine, New Hampshire
Splendid, the violet coral (Clavaria zollingeri). I haven't seen it yet this year. Lots of coral fungi out right now! Lovely.
Serf Life
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- Maine Island
That’s it and what I meant, brain wasn’t attached. A couple friends and I hiked out to look at a flush at night few years back and the fluorescence was super neat.
KTSmith
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- Maine, New Hampshire
That's great Mr. Serf to have that experience! Yes, they are out now. Younger specimens are more likely to be bioluminescent. Interestingly (to me, anyway) is that some diverse groups of fungi have that trait of bioluminescence. That tells me that the trait arose more than once in evolutionary history...hard to know its value to the fungus.
Serf Life
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- Maine Island
Fringe benefit of doing quotes 
Basswood
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- Long island
anyone here good at snake ID? Found on a grouse hunt in the woods at a wet site in the Catskills region of NY. I’m thinking Massasauga Rattlesnake? Aggressive little bugger that would strike at my shotgun if it got close.
ATH
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A) Kudos for showing your snake in the "look at my crud" thread. We've been thinking this was about fungi.
B) I'm not a herpetologist, but massasauga seems plausible with that head shape. Did it have a rattle? But I think they tend to not be aggressive???
B) I'm not a herpetologist, but massasauga seems plausible with that head shape. Did it have a rattle? But I think they tend to not be aggressive???
Shadowscape
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Basswood
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- Long island
Thanks!
Serf Life
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- Maine Island
Some crazy infection on brambles. The hairs(?) were super soft and felt more like moss than blackberry.
Basswood
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- Long island
Interesting! Kind of reminds me of the witches broom you see on blueberry from a rust fungus or rose rosette.
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Sooooo...
Who knows of a lab for testing for herbicde exposure? Ohio Department of Ag MIGHt help but I want to make sure.
Acer rubrum and Acer x freemanii not leaving out, stuck at bud swell stage.
Who knows of a lab for testing for herbicde exposure? Ohio Department of Ag MIGHt help but I want to make sure.
Acer rubrum and Acer x freemanii not leaving out, stuck at bud swell stage.
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evo
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Pm me if you run into a block, I have the contact info for a lab in Oregon. I’d think you could find something much closer
KTSmith
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- Maine, New Hampshire
I'm running a bit behind here, but as to that strangeness of brambles from SL in March: I'd start with cane gall or hairy root caused by one or another Agrobacterium. Same genus as crown gall, but their own species. So what you see is the result of the hijacking of localized bramble tissue by the bacterium. I haven't seen it in ages, but I'd start there.
evo
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- My Island, WA
Technically they are actually venomous. Very mild and less than a wasp. A lot of the taxonomy had a huge wrench thrown in it with venom evolution theory within herpetology. Quite fascinating as all of varanidae and inguanadae are also venomous as in a toxic saliva without a ‘traditional’ delivery method (hollow teeth or grooved teeth).
evo
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The one in Oregon?
