When: 2017-12-01
Collection location: Fort Yargo State Park, Winder, Georgia, USA [Click for map]
33.9733°N 83.7312°W 254m [Click for map]
Who: Joan Knapp (PucaK)
Project: NEGA Mycoflora Project
Notes:
Ecoregion: Southern Outer Piedmont
Habitat: Growing on hardwood log, under the bark
Substrate: Wood, dead hardwood
Nearest_Tree: Hardwood, hickoty
Habit: Few
Cap/upper_surface: Fruiting body ca 10 cm across; tightly branched arising from root base; densely packed spines (2-3 cm long) hanging from branches in clusters; white when young, becoming yellow-brown with age
Spore_Print: White
Spores: Subglobose; smooth
Collector: Joan Knapp
Identifier: Joan Knapp
Collection_#: FYA-20171201-09
Images
| User’s votes are weighted by their contribution to the site (log10 contribution). In addition, the user who created the observation gets an extra vote. | |||||||||
| Vote | Score | Weight | Users | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I’d Call It That | 3.0 | 5.49 | 1 | (PucaK) | |||||
| Promising | 2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Could Be | 1.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Doubtful | -1.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Not Likely | -2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| As If! | -3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Overall Score sum(score * weight) / (total weight + 1) |
2.54 | 84.58% | |||||||
It was an interesting find. I was photographing something else and spotted what looked like a coral poking out from under the bark. Was quite surprised when I found this underneath the bark.