Hey Look at My Crud...

[Serf Life]

Driad’s saddle, tastes like watermelon

 

[data farm 26]

Damn... and I just binned it without even tasting! Thanks for the id!

 

[KTSmith]

View attachment 90076Slippery Jack?

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]

Unreal pretty coral. Never seen one this colorView attachment 90077

Splendid, the violet coral (Clavaria zollingeri). I haven't seen it yet this year. Lots of coral fungi out right now! Lovely.

 

[Serf Life]

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.

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]

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]

Fringe benefit of doing quotes

 

[Basswood]

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]

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???

 

[Shadowscape]

Hate to disappoint all the want-it-to-be venomous snake people out there, but it is a Maritime Garter Snake.
Quite common in the eastern part of N.Y. Often found among the leaves.

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[Basswood]

Hate to disappoint all the want-it-to-be venomous snake people out there, but it is a Maritime Garter Snake.
Quite common in the eastern part of N.Y. Often found among the leaves.

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Thanks!

 

[Serf Life]

Some crazy infection on brambles. The hairs(?) were super soft and felt more like moss than blackberry.

 

[Basswood]

Interesting! Kind of reminds me of the witches broom you see on blueberry from a rust fungus or rose rosette.

 

[JD3000]

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.

 

[evo]

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]

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]

Hate to disappoint all the want-it-to-be venomous snake people out there, but it is a Maritime Garter Snake.
Quite common in the eastern part of N.Y. Often found among the leaves.

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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).

 

[JD3000]

ODA is testing for herbicide after a brief investigation of application records. Here's some more of "leaves"

 

[JD3000]

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

I'm talking to this lab via email as a just in case

 

[evo]

I'm talking to this lab via email as a just in case

The one in Oregon?