![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1290/jpeg/16t.jpg) Clublike fruitbody of Dead Man s Fingers (Xylaria polymorpha) mushroom taken from Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site, Texas, October 20, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1290/jpeg/17t.jpg) Whitish flesh inside a clublike fruitbody of Dead Man s Fingers (Xylaria polymorpha) mushroom taken from Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site, Texas, October 20, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1290/jpeg/15t.jpg) Finely wrinkled surface texture of fruitbody of Dead Man s Fingers (Xylaria polymorpha) mushroom taken from Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site, Texas, October 20, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1290/jpeg/18t.jpg) Dead Man s Fingers (Xylaria polymorpha) mushroom growing from a base of stump on university golf course near Texas Avenue. College Station, Texas, October 21, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1292/jpeg/13t.jpg) Dead Man s Fingers (Xylaria polymorpha) mushrooms growing near a tree stump on university golf course near Texas Avenue. College Station, Texas, October 30, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/984/jpeg/10t.jpg) Dead cedar on Loop Trail in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, October 16, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1290/jpeg/25t.jpg) Puffball mushroom (Calvatia) in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, October 25, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1287/jpeg/11t.jpg) White polypore mushroom Amylosporus campbellii(?) in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, October 6, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1287/jpeg/03t.jpg) Amanita rhopalopus(?) mushroom on near Loop Trail in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, October 6, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2139/jpeg/13t.jpg) Close up of a mushroom dead man s fingers (Xylaria polymorpha) in Alexander Park. Pushkin (former Tsarskoe Selo) near Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 4, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1291/jpeg/02t.jpg) Stalked lattice stinkhorn mushroom (Lysurus periphragmoides) in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, October 25, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1290/jpeg/26t.jpg) Hatching egg of stalked lattice stinkhorn mushroom (Lysurus periphragmoides) in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, October 25, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1291/jpeg/01t.jpg) Reddish latticed head (a receptaculum) of stalked lattice stinkhorn mushroom (Lysurus periphragmoides) in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, October 25, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2304/jpeg/07t.jpg) Mushrooms Xylaria magnoliae on a magnolia cone in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, July 8, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2304/jpeg/08t.jpg) Magnolia cones with Xylaria magnoliae mushrooms in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, July 8, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2304/jpeg/09t.jpg) Xylaria magnoliae mushrooms under old magnolia trees in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, July 8, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2304/jpeg/10t.jpg) Xylaria magnoliae mushrooms on a magnolia cone in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, July 8, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2304/jpeg/11t.jpg) Masses of Xylaria magnoliae mushrooms on a magnolia cones in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, July 8, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1287/jpeg/07t.jpg) Old orange-staining puffball mushroom (Calvatia rubroflava, Calvatia rugosa) in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, October 6, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1290/jpeg/07t.jpg) Some grass in dew in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, October 20, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1287/jpeg/08t.jpg) Orange-staining puffball mushroom (Calvatia rubroflava, Calvatia rugosa) in bushes in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, October 6, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1290/jpeg/22t.jpg) A pond in mist in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, October 25, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2794/jpeg/18t.jpg) Small pointed mushrooms Xylaria apiculata(?) among fallen juniper twigs in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, September 27, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1287/jpeg/02t.jpg) Thiers lepidella (Amanita thiersii, Saproamanita thiersii) mushroom on a field near Loop Trail in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, October 6, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1290/jpeg/08t.jpg) Slender vervain (verbena) in dew in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, October 20, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/989/jpeg/06t.jpg) Detail of a dead tree in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, December 10, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/999/jpeg/26t.jpg) Trunk of dead hackberry in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, January 8, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1119/jpeg/04t.jpg) Gnarl on a dead tree in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, November 17, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/999/jpeg/23t.jpg) Dead tree of hackberry in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, January 8, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1290/jpeg/24t.jpg) Green milkweed (Asclepias viridis) in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, October 25, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1290/jpeg/06t.jpg) Green milkweed (Asclepias viridis) in dew in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, October 20, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/999/jpeg/25t.jpg) Peeling bark of dead hackberry in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, January 8, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/976/jpeg/11t.jpg) Dead fish in drying pond in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, July 23, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2718/jpeg/13t.jpg) Dead man s fingers mushrooms (Xylaria polymorpha) on a fallen oak in Big Creek Scenic Area of Sam Houston National Forest. Shepherd, Texas, May 30, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1287/jpeg/01t.jpg) Thiers lepidella (Amanita thiersii, Saproamanita thiersii) mushroom with volval remnants on a field near Loop Trail in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, October 6, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1287/jpeg/05t.jpg) Thiers lepidella (Amanita thiersii, Saproamanita thiersii) mushroom covered by volval remnants near Loop Trail in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, October 6, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1287/jpeg/10t.jpg) Dry leaves of hackberry (Celtis laevigata) on roadside in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, October 6, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1287/jpeg/04t.jpg) Amanita rhopalopus(?) mushrooms near Loop Trail in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, October 6, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/989/jpeg/14t.jpg) Bark of dead hackberry (Celtis laevigata) in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, December 10, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1294/jpeg/01t.jpg) Mature puffball mushroom (Calvatia) in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, November 8, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/976/jpeg/12t.jpg) Dead gar fish and green slime in drying pond in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, July 23, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/976/jpeg/15t.jpg) Swarming insects on dead alligator gar in drying pond in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, July 23, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/989/jpeg/18t.jpg) Blackened trunk of dead hackberry (Celtis laevigata) in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, December 10, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/989/jpeg/15t.jpg) Detail of bark of dead hackberry (Celtis laevigata) in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, December 10, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1294/jpeg/09t.jpg) Magnolia Cone Mushroom (Strobilurus conigenoides) in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, November 8, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1290/jpeg/23t.jpg) Hackberry(?) fruits and remains of insects in animal dropping near a pond in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, October 25, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1287/jpeg/09t.jpg) Soil pellets among dry leaves of hackberry (Celtis laevigata) on roadside in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, October 6, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2141/jpeg/16t.jpg) Dead man s fingers (Xylaria polymorpha mushrooms) near a rotten oak stump in Alexander Park in Pushkin, former Tsarskoe Selo, near Saint Petersburg. Russia, September 7, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2976/jpeg/17t.jpg) Some Agaricus mushroom in area of Old Washington Town Site in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, July 7, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2976/jpeg/19t.jpg) Dissected Agaricus mushroom in area of Old Washington Town Site in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, July 7, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2957/jpeg/02t.jpg) Lepiota mushroom under small elm and oak trees in area of Old Washington Town Site in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, June 6, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1290/jpeg/09t.jpg) Violet Wood Sorrel (Oxalis violacea) in dew blooming at fall without leaves in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, October 20, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1108/jpeg/22t.jpg) Peeling puffball mushroom (Lycoperdon marginatum) in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, October 6, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2957/jpeg/12t.jpg) Underside of some bolete mushroom under small elm and oak trees in area of Old Washington Town Site in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, June 6, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2976/jpeg/10t.jpg) Underside of a chanterelle mushroom Cantharellus quercophilus in area of Old Washington Town Site in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, July 7, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2976/jpeg/11t.jpg) Underside texture of a chanterelle mushroom Cantharellus quercophilus in area of Old Washington Town Site in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, July 7, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2957/jpeg/13t.jpg) Cross section of some bolete mushroom under small elm and oak trees in area of Old Washington Town Site in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, June 6, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2139/jpeg/07t.jpg) Fungus dead man s fingers (Xylaria polymorpha) in moss on a rotten oak stump in Alexander Park. Pushkin (former Tsarskoe Selo) near Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 4, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2139/jpeg/09t.jpg) Saprobic fungus dead man s fingers (Xylaria polymorpha) on a rotten oak stump in Alexander Park. Pushkin (former Tsarskoe Selo) near Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 4, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2141/jpeg/15t.jpg) Group of dead man s fingers (Xylaria polymorpha mushrooms) near a rotten oak stump in Alexander Park in Pushkin, former Tsarskoe Selo, near Saint Petersburg. Russia, September 7, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2139/jpeg/11t.jpg) Dissected mushrooms dead man s fingers (Xylaria polymorpha) near a rotten oak stump in Alexander Park. Pushkin (former Tsarskoe Selo) near Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 4, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2139/jpeg/10t.jpg) Group of dead man s fingers (Xylaria polymorpha mushrooms) near a rotten oak stump in Alexander Park. Pushkin (former Tsarskoe Selo) near Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 4, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2957/jpeg/15t.jpg) Cap of sordid blewit mushroom (Lepista sordida) under small elm and oak trees in area of Old Washington Town Site in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, June 6, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2957/jpeg/14t.jpg) Gills of sordid blewit mushroom (Lepista sordida) under small elm and oak trees in area of Old Washington Town Site in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, June 6, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1318/jpeg/20t.jpg) Close up of a dune stinkhorn mushroom (Phallus hadriani) on Robinson Ferry Road in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, December 27, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1318/jpeg/21t.jpg) Close up of a cap of dune stinkhorn mushroom (Phallus hadriani) on Robinson Ferry Road in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, December 27, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2139/jpeg/12t.jpg) Dissected mushrooms dead man s fingers (Xylaria polymorpha) on moss near a rotten oak stump in Alexander Park. Pushkin (former Tsarskoe Selo) near Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 4, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2139/jpeg/08t.jpg) Saprobic fungus dead man s fingers (Xylaria polymorpha) at the base of a rotten oak stump in Alexander Park. Pushkin (former Tsarskoe Selo) near Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 4, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2937/jpeg/29t.jpg) Mushrooms dead man s fingers (Xylaria polymorpha) on old low linden stump south-west from Arsenal in Alexander Park in Pushkin (former Tsarskoe Selo) near Saint Petersburg. Russia, May 18, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2957/jpeg/16t.jpg) Cross section of sordid blewit mushroom (Lepista sordida) under small elm and oak trees in area of Old Washington Town Site in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, June 6, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1290/jpeg/13t.jpg) Cut egg of stalked lattice stinkhorn mushroom (Lysurus periphragmoides) taken from Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site, Texas, October 20, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2914/jpeg/17t.jpg) Black Hysteroid pyrenomycetous fungi Hysterium angustatum(?) on an old dead osage orange (Maclura) tree in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, April 19, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2820/jpeg/11t.jpg) Black Hysteroid pyrenomycetous fungi Hysterium angustatum(?) on an old dead osage orange (Maclura) tree in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, November 24, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2937/jpeg/30t.jpg) Close-up of mushrooms dead man s fingers (Xylaria polymorpha) on old low linden stump near Small Lamsky Bridge in Alexander Park in Pushkin (former Tsarskoe Selo) near Saint Petersburg. Russia, May 18, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3033/jpeg/03t.jpg) Prostrate polypore mushroom of Fomitiporia punctata group on a fallen tree branch in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, October 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1290/jpeg/12t.jpg) Broken egg of stalked lattice stinkhorn mushroom (Lysurus periphragmoides) taken from Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site, Texas, October 20, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1290/jpeg/11t.jpg) Crashed egg of stalked lattice stinkhorn mushroom (Lysurus periphragmoides) taken from Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site, Texas, October 20, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1290/jpeg/14t.jpg) Back lit cut egg of stalked lattice stinkhorn mushroom (Lysurus periphragmoides) taken from Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site, Texas, October 20, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3033/jpeg/04t.jpg) Close-up of resupinate polypore mushroom of Fomitiporia punctata group on a fallen tree branch in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, October 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1287/jpeg/06t.jpg) Orange-staining puffball mushrooms (Calvatia rubroflava, Calvatia rugosa) in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, October 6, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2820/jpeg/12t.jpg) Close-up of black Hysteroid pyrenomycetous fungi Hysterium angustatum(?) on an old dead barkless osage orange (Maclura) tree in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, November 24, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1318/jpeg/18t.jpg) Site of Robinson Ferry in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, December 27, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2957/jpeg/05t.jpg) Gills of Clitocella fallax (Rhodocybe fallax) mushroom in area of Old Washington Town Site in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, June 6, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2976/jpeg/03t.jpg) Gills of a mushroom Clitocella fallax (Rhodocybe fallax) under small elm and oak trees in area of Old Washington Town Site in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, July 7, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/984/jpeg/13t.jpg) Brazos River from Robinson s Ferry Overlook in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, October 16, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1316/jpeg/01t.jpg) Pond in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, December 15, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1137/jpeg/13t.jpg) Oak alley in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, January 20, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1137/jpeg/25t.jpg) A pond in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, January 20, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1137/jpeg/21t.jpg) Dry reeds near a pond in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, January 20, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1137/jpeg/14t.jpg) Independence Hall in fog in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, January 20, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1137/jpeg/15t.jpg) Old water cistern in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, January 20, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1137/jpeg/26t.jpg) Partially dry pond in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, January 20, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1294/jpeg/08t.jpg) Amaranth like plant in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, November 8, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1137/jpeg/16t.jpg) Ferry Road in fog in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, January 20, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1137/jpeg/17t.jpg) Robinson s Ferry Overlook in fog in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, January 20, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1233/jpeg/04t.jpg) Sunflower petals near a pond in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, July 27, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1318/jpeg/12t.jpg) Winter rosette of brassica in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, December 27, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1137/jpeg/22t.jpg) Bluebonnet seedling near a pond in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, January 20, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1137/jpeg/23t.jpg) Sow thistle seedling near a pond in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, January 20, 2013
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