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Thursday, May 21, 2015

Spring Is In The Air: Fort Yargo State Park, Section B To The Dam, May 1st (Part 1)

May 1st. When I visited Fort Yargo State Park in mid-February, there were few signs of Spring. The only wildflower plants that were obvious were the leaves of Cranefly Orchids (Tipularia discolor) that I found in many places.

The route… I’ve described it here, here, here, and here This walk doesn’t have the variety of wildflowers as my other walk from the Group A Shelter to the Old Fort but it does have some gems. One of the Smallflower (Asimina parviflora) had developed fruit, the Pink Lady’s Slipper (Cypripedium acaule) Orchids had been blooming for a week or so and some Green Adder’s-mouth Orchids (Malaxis uniflora) were beginning to bloom.

Setting out on the trail on another sunny morning; so nice after the many gray days we’d had.

There were many Virginia Pepperweed (Lepidium virginicum) plants in the grass. The flowers are so tiny that they go unnoticed until the…

seedpods are developing on the stems.

I was checking some lichens on a branch that also had a lot of Amber Jelly Roll (Exidia recisa). I’d never thought much about what happens to a jelly fungus when it dries up. This is what one looks like when it's dry.

A Variegated Fritillary (Euptoieta claudia) was warming itself up in the sun.

The woods were becoming more shady.

Having found the dried-up Amber Jelly fungus, I looked for the…

Witch’s Butter (Tremella mesenterica) that had also dried up. It was still there.

One of the hawthorns (Crataegus sp.) in the woods still had a couple of blooms.

Then to climb up ‘The Hill’ to check on the…

Smallflower Pawpaw fruit. Several fruits were still attached.

Two little pine seedlings were still growing in the cavity on a fallen log.

I took the trail to the…

Tulip Poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera). Many of the flower buds had fallen off; only one remained close to the trail.

There were a lot of Spring Azure (Celastrina ladon) butterflies around this spring but they rarely stayed still.

The woods, viewed from the end of the dam, were still a mixture of different greens.

Then off down the trail to the Pink Lady’s Slipper Orchid patch.

(To be continued…)

- Out With The Old; In With The New (Part 1)
- Well… So Much For Walking The Beach
- Winter Walk: Fort Yargo State Park – Section B To The Dam (Part 4)
- Winter Walk: Fort Yargo State Park – Section B To The Dam (Part 3)
- Winter Walk: Fort Yargo State Park – Section B To The Dam (Part 2)
- Winter Walk: Fort Yargo State Park – Section B To The Dam (Part 1)

Monday, February 18, 2013

Exidia recisa (Amber Jelly Roll, Brown Witch's Butter)

February 14th, 2013. As we drove out of the Broad River Wildlife Management Area spotting trilliums after our find near the river, we spotted a large cluster of jelly fungus on a fallen branch that had hung up on a nearby tree trunk.

The main cluster on the horizontal section of the branch.

A slightly closer view of the cluster. The fungi at the far right are beginning to dry up and shrivel.

A close-up view of a section of the main cluster.

There were small clusters of the fungus on the vertical section of the branch.

A close-up view of one of the smaller clusters. They are starting to dry out.

They are translucent.

These were a nice find. Had they been dried up we might not have noticed them.

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Identification resources:

- Rogers Mushrooms: Exidia recisa

- Indiana Mushrooms: Exidia recisa

- Messiah College: Exidia recisa

- Mushroom Hunter: Exidia recisa

- First Trillium Of Spring

Anybody Seen My Focus?

Thursday, May 21, 2015

Spring Is In The Air: Fort Yargo State Park, Section B To The Dam, May 1st (Part 1)

Monday, February 18, 2013

Exidia recisa (Amber Jelly Roll, Brown Witch's Butter)

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