Hey Look at My Crud...

[Basswood]

Oak Graft


friends backyard

 

[JD3000]

Photo dump

Stink horn View attachment 68637

Jack o lanterns?
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weird fungi, I forgot name I was told, I found fruiting in a felled ailanthus during the winterView attachment 68640

under some Pinus strobus
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Beech tree graft
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devils walking stick growing from a crevice of a J. virginiana. Had crazy aerial roots
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look closely at the cavities of this butchered oak
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score!
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Not jack o lanterns

 

[Basswood]

Do you know what they were? It was late fall, Long Island.

 

[JD3000]

Do you know what they were? It was late fall, Long Island.

No, but the Omphalotus I'm familiar with look more like a conventional mushroom whereas those look more conk-like.

Of course, it could be a camera angle and age thing and I could be wrong

 

[Basswood]

I think they were a little conchy although I can’t recall from memory and this is the only other image I got.

 

[KTSmith]

Nice photos all around! You can see why the scientific name for the stinkhorn genus is Phallus!
Before setting on jack-o-lanterns (genus Omphalotus), consider the cinnabar polypore: Pycnoporus cinnabarina. The former are pileate-stipitate, meaning they have a cap and a stalk. These look to be a sessile bracket without a stem, which fits the latter.
Yes, looks to be an American chestnut.
The "weird" one could illustrate the dictionary entry for "viscid" for the moist, even sticky coating on the cap.

 

[JD3000]

On swamp white oak especially and a little bit on adjacent bur oaks. Purple margin between like and dead tissues

 

[Basswood]

Amanita

 

[KTSmith]

Nice for Jzack to have included the swollen, saccate base and the fragile annulus or ring! That and the crowded, white,notched to almost free gills puts it squarely into Amanita based on field characteristics. The squamules on top are cute too.

 

[Basswood]

Beech Leaf Disease spotted at an arboretum I did a big bark application at for ambrosia beetle on tilia.

 

[ATH]

Beech Leaf Disease spotted at an arboretum I did a big bark application at for ambrosia beetle on tilia.View attachment 68832

Where is that? Your profile says Long Island...so was this NYC?

 

[ATH]

And is that right for BLD? I haven't seen it first hand, but most pics I've seen you have to backlight the leaf to see striations...

 

[Basswood]

It’s my first experience with seeing it in person, I also had only seen images requiring backlight. I believe it was confirmed by a lab.

about 45min from NYC in Westbury.

 

[ATH]

What did they confirm? Nematodes? (which may or may not be the causal agent of BLD) or just that the visual symptoms are consistent with the disease?

 

[Basswood]

The arborist who had it confirmed said nematodes.

 

[Basswood]

first of the year for me

 

[JD3000]

first of the year for me

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You got to them before the bugs did

 

[KTSmith]

Very nice sulfur shelf! They are fruiting up here in Maine as well. Those big conks grow fast!

 

[Basswood]

Made some good fajitas.

 

[Basswood]

A small but good haul