When: 2018-10-24
Collection location: Bloomington, Minnesota, USA [Click for map]
44.8436°N 93.3688°W [Click for map]
Project: Minnesota Funga Project
Notes:
Ascocoryne cylichnium
(original thought: Pachyella clypeata)
Hyland Park Reserve
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- Habitat: Growing on very wet/moist decaying hardwood log (could be box elder or maple) on “Oak Trail” of Hyland Park Reserve (near visitor center). Growing after couple days of hard frost in area.
- Habit: Growing in small cluster (two specimens growing on same log)
- Cap/Fruiting body: Dark purple (becoming brown as drying). 2-7mm diameter. Soft to touch, moist-feeling. Smooth surface with wrinkled cup look.
- Substrate Note: Despite the wood being very moist that this was extracted from, it was difficult to pry this off.
- Smell/Taste: None observed
- Sample/Spore: Collected and dried
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 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Promising | 2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Could Be | 1.0 | 9.53 | 2 | (billyd,Tyler R. Pieper) | |||||
| 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) |
0.91 | 30.17% | |||||||
| 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 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Promising | 2.0 | 5.57 | 1 | (Mycowalt) | |||||
| 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) |
1.70 | 56.52% | |||||||
Comments
Add Commenteasily be a Ascocoryne sp. Without microscopy its difficult to say.
Thank you for the suggestion—hopefully will be able to update post after some microscopy in the near future. Again—thanks.
- Ty