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Sunday, November 6, 2016

Heimioporus betula (Shaggy Stalked Bolete)

August-September. Heimioporus betula, the Shaggy Stalked Bolete, is probably

the easiest bolete to identify along the trail from the beach to the Old Fort in Fort Yargo State Park.

The dead give-away to identifying this species is the coarsely reticulated stalk. This photo shows a particularly pristine stem that becomes more 'shaggy' with age. The red color under the surface is also characteristic for this species.

Young specimens growing have caps barely wider than the stalk. When in deep shade their caps are deep orange. Specimens growing in open woods have a lighter orange-colored cap. In either case, the caps of young specimens are sticky. The caps usually enlarge to be wider than the stalk.

As they age, the caps become dry and start to lose their deeper orange color.

Ultimately, the caps become yellow-colored.

The pore surfaces of young caps are irregular with large angular pores, 1-2/mm.The pore surfaces don't bruise blue when damaged.

The pores become ragged as they age and discolored by olive to olive-brown spores.

The red color under the surface results from a ring of color immediately under the surface, that...

diffuses throughout the stalk with age.

Shaggy stalked boletes may be solitary or scattered over a small area. It was unusual to find…

this pair growing closely together.

So far, I’ve only found most specimens in wooded areas between the beach and the Fishing Area. This year, I did find two small specimens just north of the Fishing Area, away form the main trail.

Heimioporus betula has been reported only in North America.

Bolete Mushroom Season Is Here Again

References:

Mushroom Expert: Heimioporus betula

Discover Life: Heimioporus betula

Sunday, December 20, 2015

Summer At Fort Yargo State Park: Shelter A To The Old Fort, August 31st, 2015 (Part 3)

August 31st. (Continued from…). I started to walk again at Fort Yargo State Park in Winder, Georgia. One of my favorite walks is from the Group Shelter A to the Old Fort and back.This is a rewarding walk for viewing wildflowers and I’ve This is a rewarding walk for viewing wildflowers and I’ve been walking it every week and documenting the wildflowers that I see.

The route, which I described here, here, and here.

The early spring wildflowers have finished blooming; it’s time to watch the developing fruit. Summer wildflowers were still blooming but it was time to turn attention to the fungi in the woods. There were quite a number on this walk.

My first stop when I rejoined the main trail to the Old Fort was at the Golden Reishi (Ganoderma curtisii). This had darkened considerably since the previous week.

Below the Old Fort, several flowers were still blooming including the Sweet Autumn Clematis (Clematis terniflora). These included…

Groundnut (Apios americana), and the…

Small White Morning Glory (Ipomoea lacunosa).

There were a few small vines of…

Sweet Autumn Clematis vines blooming at the edge of the woods, including some…

flowers that had been fertilized and were showing the first steps in developing seeds.

Nearby, I found Snow Fungus (Tremella fuciformis) on a fallen tree trunk. Snow Fungus is found growing in association with another fungus, an…

Annulohypoxylon (fomerly Hypoxylon) sp. Annulohypoxylon sp. – and this may be A. thouarsianum – look like ‘blobs of tar’ on a tree trunk or branch. When the fruit matures, the surface of the blob is covered with tiny bumps.

Witch’s Butter (Tremella mesenterica) on a fallen log. A small slug was nibbling on it; looks like this slug or others had been eating the fungus for a while.

Further along the trail, I found…

seed capsules developing on a Cranefly Orchid (Tipularia discolor) plant.

I happened upon another Frost’s Bolete (Exudoporus frostii) that was more accessible than the one I’d seen on the Rock Garden trail. These mushrooms have…

highly reticulated red stems. Another feature is that their pore surfaces stain blue when bruised.

Nearby, I found some…

mature seed capsules on a Pipsissewa (Chimaphila maculata) plant.

An Appalachian Brown (Satyrodes appalachia) butterfly teased me for quite some time, flitting from plant to plant and across the trail until it settled long enough for me to take a photograph.

I made my way back down the trail to the area under the power lines.

Tickt-trefoils were starting to bloom. This one looks like the Panicled Tick-trefoil (Desmodium paniculatum).

In the open woods beyond the power lines, I found another large log covered with…

small bracket fungi. From the top, they looked like Turkey Tails (Trametes versicolor) but the…

underside looked superficially like the Gilled Polypore (Lenzites betulina). However, over time, I’ve become convinced that this is actually (Daedaleopsis septentrionalis) on the basis of the bifurcated ‘gills’ compared with the simple gills of the Gilled Polypore. I’ll be looking at again in late August, 2016, to follow it more closely.

I found a different tick-trefoil, the Hairy Small-leaved Tick-trefoil (Desmodium ciliare), in the open woods on the trail back to the pine woods. This species has not been documented widely in Georgia. This identification was made through the assistance of a member on the Plant Identification group on Facebook.

My final spotting on this walk was another Shaggy Stalked Bolete (Heimioporus betula). This mushroom had a small cap compared with the size of its stem.

References:

- Mushroom Observer: Ganoderma curtisii

- Mushroom Expert. Kuo, M. (2008 November): Tremella fuciformis

- Mushroom Observer: Annulohypoxylon thouarsianum

- Mushroom Expert. Kuo, M.(2013 December): Exsudoporus frostii (Boletus frostii)
- Butterflies and Moths of North America: Appalachian Brown (Satyrodes appalchia)
- Native and Naturalized Plants of the Carolinas and Georgia: Panicled Tick-trefoil (Desmodium paniculatum)

- Messiah College: Daedaleopsis septentrionalis

- Native and Naturalized Plants of the Carolinas and Georgia: Hairy Small-leaved Tick-trefoil (Desmodium ciliare)

- Mushroom Expert. Kuo, M. (2010 March). Heimioporus betula

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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Summer At Fort Yargo State Park: Shelter A To The Old Fort, August 25th, 2015 (Part 2)

August 25th. (Continued from…). I started to walk again at Fort Yargo State Park in Winder, Georgia. One of my favorite walks is from the Group Shelter A to the Old Fort and back.This is a rewarding walk for viewing wildflowers and I’ve This is a rewarding walk for viewing wildflowers and I’ve been walking it every week and documenting the wildflowers that I see.

The route, which I described here, here, and here.

The early spring wildflowers have finished blooming; it’s time to watch the developing fruit. Summer wildflowers were still blooming but it was time to turn attention to the fungi in the woods.

Just before I reached the first bridge on this trail, I found another cluster of ‘Honeycomb’ Coral Slime (Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa var. porioides) on the log on which I had first found them. These were developing and it’s easier to appreciate their structure.

A Red-spotted Purple (Limenitis arthemis) butterfly was enjoying the sunshine on the bridge.

The seed capsules were still developing on the Pipsissewa (Chimaphila maculata) just past the bridge.

Further along the trail, the seed capsules on the Eastern Sweetshrub (Calycanthus floridus) was completely ripe. These capsules may remain attached to the plant into the winter. It will be interesting to see how long this capsule hangs on.

The seeds in the Wild Yam (Dioscorea villosa) were visible though the seed capsule but they weren’t ripe.

The seed capsules on the witchhazel (Hamamelis sp.) were unchanged; the…

flower buds were also unchanged, as were the…

seed capsules on the Mountain Azalea (Rhododendron canescens).

The second Eastern Sweetshrub fruit had turned brown finally.

A surprising sight. A Dog’s Vomit slime mold (Fuligo septica) plasmodium had been in the process of moving across the top of an old stump and had mostly formed the fruiting structures. The trailing end (on the right-hand side) was still in the plasmodial stage. (Unfortunately, the tail end of the plasmodium didn’t form fruiting structures; I think it dried before it could do so.)

I found some Chocolate Tube (Stemonitis sp.) slime mold fruiting bodies on the side of the stump near the ground. (I rotated the image for easier viewing)>

Between the cliff and the Fishing Area, I found another Shaggy Stalked Bolete (Heimioporus betula). The cap on this one was a more characteristic red color that still had some of the glossy sheen that would be uniform on the cap in a younger specimen. The red color under the shaggy surface on the stem is much more apparent than it had been on the specimen I had found near the beginning of the trail.

I was treated to yet another Red-spotted Purple butterfly before I reached the Fishing Area.

The fruit on the Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis) were unchanged from the previous week. I wondered how long it would take for these to mature.

Some Bushy Seedbox (Ludwigia alternifolia) were blooming and producing fruit at the edge of the shallow water in the Fishing Area.

At the north end of the Fishing Area, mushrooms were starting to grow. I couldn’t identify these this year; they are probably a Hypholoma sp. Perhaps, next year, I’ll be able to identify the species.