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Calostoma lutescens-
2 gasterocarps consisting of spherical gleba (spore sacs) covered in a yellow peridium atop tall golden stalks of intertwined hyphae that look similar to pasta or spaghetti squash. At the apex of each gleba are pink to red star-shaped pores. Spores are white to gray. Calostoma lutescens is one of the 20 gasteroid fungi belonging to the suborder Sclerodermatineae within the order Boletales. It is believed that fungi within the Calostoma genus underwent diversification within the Boletales order from end of the Cretaceous period through the middle of the Cenozoic era. C. lutescens is ectomycorrhizal with Quercus (oak) species.

Habitat:
The side of a ridge growing under an oak (in soil) in a dense mixed hardwood forest in Northwest Georgia, US.


Another observation a year later:

A cross-section of Pisolithus sp. (possibly Pisolithus arhizus)-
At the disturbed edge of a mixed hardwood/coniferous forest in NW Georgia, US. Growing near roots of downed trees.

We cant ignore the...single GREATEST major motion picture ever made about the subject of fungus!

Indeed it's probably the ONLY major motion picture ever made about the subject of fungus!

Kind of a horror version of Gilligan's Island.

From Japan in 1963.its...

"Attack of the Mushroom People"

aka

"Matango: the Fungus of Terror"

^^^i like "attack of the mushroom people" better

It's a toss up.

Either title would be ...up there with "They Saved Hitler's Brain", and "The Crazy Mixed Up Creatures who Stopped Living and Became Zombies" for the honor of "Worst Movie title ever".

what about that one about the man in the moon marigolds?

I know nothing about Fungi, but it's one of the things I like to take photographs of when I spot it! The variation of form and colour amazes me Here's some pictures I've taken of some:






If anyone knows what any of them are etc. please do let me know!

"The effect of gamma rays upon man in the moon marigolds"?

It is rather excessively long winded. But to me, it's not nearly as asinine as the ones I mentioned. It sounds like the title of a dissertation, but its really a love story (or something like that). So it kinda works because its like "casting against type".

The "Crazy Mixed up Creatures" is just ret*d sounding. And "They Saved..." is gross wrapped up in offensive.

Good nature photography. The top and bottom both are lovely. Don't know the species. The bottom one is similar to commonly seen fungus in the woods around here in the Mid Atlantic US. But have never seen that lovely purplish thing here.

how 'bout "The Man with the Smallest Penis in Existence and the Electron Microscope Technician Who Loved Him"?
or:
"I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at Disney"

That would be a Russula. Can't tell what species — there are many and they're hard to tell apart.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Russula&atb=v ... &ia=images

Ya got me!

Those are...pretty BAD!

Russula atropurpurea?

Even a professional mycologist giving a lecture I attended confessed he wasn't able to distinguish all the Russula species.

Trametes versicolor?

The only Russula I've ever been comfortable identifying is R. xerampelina because it smells like shellfish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russula_xerampelina

Thank you- I have some different ones, too. I'll resize and post them . I partly took them for inspiration for painting fantasy type landscapes .



Thank you for letting me know what kind it is! I’m not surprised you don’t know the exact one- when I looked up Russula it said there were 750 species? that’s amazing!