![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3075/jpeg/20t.jpg) Egg stage of devil s cigar fungus (Chorioactis geaster) on Copperfield Nature Trail. Austin, Texas, December 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3075/jpeg/21t.jpg) Opening egg of devil s cigar fungus (Chorioactis geaster) on Copperfield Nature Trail. Austin, Texas, December 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3075/jpeg/12t.jpg) Close-up of devil s cigar fungus (Chorioactis geaster) on Copperfield Nature Trail. Austin, Texas, December 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3075/jpeg/08t.jpg) Side view of devil s cigar fungus (Chorioactis geaster) on Copperfield Nature Trail. Austin, Texas, December 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3075/jpeg/22t.jpg) Upper view of devil s cigar fungus (Chorioactis geaster) on Copperfield Nature Trail. Austin, Texas, December 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3075/jpeg/16t.jpg) Half-opened devil s cigar fungus (Chorioactis geaster) on Copperfield Nature Trail. Austin, Texas, December 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3075/jpeg/29t.jpg) Old cedar elm stump with devil s cigar fungus (Chorioactis geaster) on Copperfield Nature Trail. Austin, Texas, December 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3075/jpeg/06t.jpg) Devil s cigar fungus (Chorioactis geaster) on rotting wood on Copperfield Nature Trail. Austin, Texas, December 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3075/jpeg/19t.jpg) Young stage of devil s cigar fungus (Chorioactis geaster) on Copperfield Nature Trail. Austin, Texas, December 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3075/jpeg/07t.jpg) Devil s cigar fungus (Chorioactis geaster) near a cedar elm stump on Copperfield Nature Trail. Austin, Texas, December 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3075/jpeg/10t.jpg) Opened body of devil s cigar fungus (Chorioactis geaster) on Copperfield Nature Trail. Austin, Texas, December 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3075/jpeg/01t.jpg) Malformed devil s cigar fungus (Chorioactis geaster) on a cedar elm stump on Copperfield Nature Trail. Austin, Texas, December 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3075/jpeg/38t.jpg) Close-up of velvety brown egg of devil s cigar fungus (Chorioactis geaster) on Copperfield Nature Trail. Austin, Texas, December 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3075/jpeg/37t.jpg) Brown egg of devil s cigar fungus (Chorioactis geaster) in litter near a cedar elm stump on Copperfield Nature Trail. Austin, Texas, December 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3075/jpeg/23t.jpg) Side view of devil s cigar fungus (Chorioactis geaster) near a cedar elm stump on Copperfield Nature Trail. Austin, Texas, December 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3075/jpeg/24t.jpg) Opening stage of devil s cigar fungus (Chorioactis geaster) near a cedar elm stump on Copperfield Nature Trail. Austin, Texas, December 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3075/jpeg/26t.jpg) Closed body of devil s cigar fungus (Chorioactis geaster) near a cedar elm stump on Copperfield Nature Trail. Austin, Texas, December 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3075/jpeg/17t.jpg) Side view of half-opened devil s cigar fungus (Chorioactis geaster) on Copperfield Nature Trail. Austin, Texas, December 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3075/jpeg/36t.jpg) Velvety brown egg of devil s cigar fungus (Chorioactis geaster) near a cedar elm stump on Copperfield Nature Trail. Austin, Texas, December 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3075/jpeg/27t.jpg) Splitting body of devil s cigar fungus (Chorioactis geaster) near a cedar elm stump on Copperfield Nature Trail. Austin, Texas, December 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3075/jpeg/15t.jpg) Taking pictures of devil s cigar fungus (Chorioactis geaster) around a cedar elm stump on Copperfield Nature Trail. Austin, Texas, December 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3075/jpeg/25t.jpg) Recently opened devil s cigar fungus (Chorioactis geaster) near a cedar elm stump on Copperfield Nature Trail. Austin, Texas, December 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3075/jpeg/34t.jpg) Submerged brown egg of devil s cigar fungus (Chorioactis geaster) near a cedar elm stump on Copperfield Nature Trail. Austin, Texas, December 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3075/jpeg/33t.jpg) Leathery rays of devil s cigar fungus (Chorioactis geaster) near a cedar elm stump on Copperfield Nature Trail. Austin, Texas, December 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3075/jpeg/18t.jpg) Some white mold growing on mature bodies of devil s cigar fungus (Chorioactis geaster)(?) on Copperfield Nature Trail. Austin, Texas, December 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3075/jpeg/32t.jpg) Mature and young bodies of devil s cigar fungus (Chorioactis geaster) near a cedar elm stump on Copperfield Nature Trail. Austin, Texas, December 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3075/jpeg/35t.jpg) Partially split and malformed egg of devil s cigar fungus (Chorioactis geaster) near a cedar elm stump on Copperfield Nature Trail. Austin, Texas, December 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3075/jpeg/31t.jpg) Wide opened body of devil s cigar fungus (Chorioactis geaster) near a cedar elm stump on Copperfield Nature Trail. Austin, Texas, December 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3075/jpeg/28t.jpg) Star-like arrangement of leathery rays of devil s cigar fungus (Chorioactis geaster) near a cedar elm stump on Copperfield Nature Trail. Austin, Texas, December 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3075/jpeg/09t.jpg) Cedar elm stump with devil s cigar fungus (Texas Star, Chorioactis geaster) on Copperfield Nature Trail. Austin, Texas, December 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3316/jpeg/32t.jpg) Spores of devil s cigar mushroom Chorioactis geaster collected a day before in Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, January 2, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3075/jpeg/05t.jpg) Close-up of cramp balls fungus (Daldinia concentrica) on Copperfield Nature Trail. Austin, Texas, December 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3075/jpeg/03t.jpg) Black bodies of cramp balls fungus (Daldinia concentrica) on Copperfield Nature Trail. Austin, Texas, December 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3075/jpeg/02t.jpg) Cramp balls fungus (Daldinia concentrica) on a log of a hardwood tree on Copperfield Nature Trail. Austin, Texas, December 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3075/jpeg/04t.jpg) Broken bodies of cramp balls fungus (Daldinia concentrica) on Copperfield Nature Trail. Austin, Texas, December 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3314/jpeg/10t.jpg) Partially dry Devil s Cigar Ascomycete mushroom (Chorioactis geaster) at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, January 1, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3314/jpeg/07t.jpg) Habitat of Devil s Cigar Ascomycete mushrooms (Chorioactis geaster) 0.8 m from hackberry, 4 m from elm, 7 m from oak, 11 m from juniper, around 60 m from lake shore, at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, January 1, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3314/jpeg/08t.jpg) Mature Devil s Cigar Ascomycete mushroom (Chorioactis geaster) growing of a small piece of submerged in soil blackened elm wood at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, January 1, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3075/jpeg/14t.jpg) Fairy inkcap mushrooms (Coprinellus disseminatus) on Copperfield Nature Trail. Austin, Texas, December 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3075/jpeg/39t.jpg) Silver-white and black texture of fungi on rotting cedar elm wood on Copperfield Nature Trail. Austin, Texas, December 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3075/jpeg/13t.jpg) Central Texas Mycological Society on Copperfield Nature Trail. Austin, Texas, December 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3075/jpeg/11t.jpg) Central Texas Mycological Society at a trailhead of Copperfield Nature Trail. Austin, Texas, December 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3316/jpeg/33t.jpg) Spores of Ascomycete mushroom Chorioactis geaster collected a day before in Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, January 2, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3316/jpeg/31t.jpg) Spores (at low magnofication) of Ascomycete mushroom Chorioactis geaster collected a day before in Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, January 2, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2884/jpeg/11t.jpg) White juniper fungus (Robergea albicedrae) small gray nodules where spores are produced on bark of a young Juniperus ashei tree in McKinney Roughs Nature Park near Austin. Texas, March 17, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2884/jpeg/12t.jpg) Close-up of white juniper fungus (Robergea albicedrae) small gray nodules where spores are produced on bark of a young Juniperus ashei tree in McKinney Roughs Nature Park near Austin. Texas, March 17, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3314/jpeg/16t.jpg) Spores (with x100 objective) of Ascomycete mushrooms Chorioactis geaster collected at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, January 1, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3314/jpeg/15t.jpg) Asci and spores (at low magnification, x40 objective) of Ascomycete mushrooms Chorioactis geaster collected at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, January 1, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2884/jpeg/09t.jpg) Whitening pattern of a fungus Robergea albicedrae on bark of Ashe juniper in McKinney Roughs Nature Park near Austin. Texas, March 17, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2883/jpeg/12t.jpg) Close-up of corticioid fungus Dendrothele nivosa on bark of Eastern red cedar (Juniper) in McKinney Roughs Nature Park near Austin. Texas, March 17, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2884/jpeg/07t.jpg) White juniper fungus (Robergea albicedrae) on bark of Juniperus ashei tree in McKinney Roughs Nature Park near Austin. Texas, March 17, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2884/jpeg/13t.jpg) Typical whitening pattern on bark of Ashe juniper with a fungus Robergea albicedrae in McKinney Roughs Nature Park near Austin. Texas, March 17, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2884/jpeg/10t.jpg) White juniper fungus (Robergea albicedrae) on bark of a young Juniperus ashei tree in McKinney Roughs Nature Park near Austin. Texas, March 17, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2884/jpeg/08t.jpg) White juniper fungus (Robergea albicedrae) around of a broken branch spot on Juniperus ashei tree in McKinney Roughs Nature Park near Austin. Texas, March 17, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1297/jpeg/18t.jpg) Ringless honey mushrooms (Desarmillaria caespitosa, former D. tabescens, Armillaria) emitting white spores in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 16, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2883/jpeg/17t.jpg) Bend of Colorado River from Bluff Trail Loop in McKinney Roughs Nature Park near Austin. Texas, March 17, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2883/jpeg/18t.jpg) View of Colorado River from Bluff Trail Loop in McKinney Roughs Nature Park near Austin. Texas, March 17, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2883/jpeg/19t.jpg) Steep descent to Colorado River from Bluff Trail Loop in McKinney Roughs Nature Park near Austin. Texas, March 17, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3389/jpeg/40t.jpg) Spores of white tooth fungus from soft, light-weight wood, may be contamination (few spores), in KOH solution, collected on Kiwanis Nature Trail. College Station, Texas, April 20, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3314/jpeg/11t.jpg) Ascomycete mushrooms Chorioactis geaster with dried tips at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, January 1, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3314/jpeg/14t.jpg) Asci and paraphyses of Ascomycete mushrooms Chorioactis geaster collected at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, January 1, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3314/jpeg/13t.jpg) Asci (in Congo Red, at low magnification) of Ascomycete mushrooms Chorioactis geaster collected at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, January 1, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3314/jpeg/12t.jpg) Tissues (in Congo Red, at low magnification) of Ascomycete mushrooms Chorioactis geaster collected at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, January 1, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3314/jpeg/17t.jpg) Immature spore and some round structures of Ascomycete mushrooms Chorioactis geaster collected at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, January 1, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3314/jpeg/09t.jpg) Ascomycete mushroom Chorioactis geaster under several trees in half-open area near the lake, at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, January 1, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3080/jpeg/21t.jpg) Side view of coral tooth fungus (Hericium coralloides) on Kiwanis Nature Trail. College Station, Texas, December 14, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3080/jpeg/20t.jpg) Coral tooth fungus (Hericium coralloides) at the base of an oak tree on Kiwanis Nature Trail. College Station, Texas, December 14, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2884/jpeg/03t.jpg) Young leaves of oak in McKinney Roughs Nature Park near Austin. Texas, March 17, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2883/jpeg/24t.jpg) Leaf of poison ivy in McKinney Roughs Nature Park near Austin. Texas, March 17, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/717/jpeg/13t.jpg) Devil s shoestring (Nolina lindhemeriana) in Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center. Austin, Texas, March 7, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3080/jpeg/19t.jpg) Close-up of jelly mushrooms Dacrymyces(?) on black Sordariomycetes crust fungus on rotting oak wood on Kiwanis Nature Trail. College Station, Texas, December 14, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2883/jpeg/26t.jpg) Tender leaves of Virginia creeper in McKinney Roughs Nature Park near Austin. Texas, March 17, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2883/jpeg/25t.jpg) Young leaves of Virginia creeper in McKinney Roughs Nature Park near Austin. Texas, March 17, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2883/jpeg/20t.jpg) Gold dust lichen (Chrysothrix xanthina) in McKinney Roughs Nature Park near Austin. Texas, March 17, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2884/jpeg/01t.jpg) Violet flowers of spiderwort (Tradescantia gigantea(?)) in McKinney Roughs Nature Park near Austin. Texas, March 17, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2883/jpeg/16t.jpg) Violet spiderwort (Tradescantia gigantea(?)) flowers in McKinney Roughs Nature Park near Austin. Texas, March 17, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2884/jpeg/02t.jpg) Copper-colored young leaves of Virginia creeper in McKinney Roughs Nature Park near Austin. Texas, March 17, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2883/jpeg/14t.jpg) Pore lichen (Pertusaria) with apothecia on a juniper branch in McKinney Roughs Nature Park near Austin. Texas, March 17, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2883/jpeg/15t.jpg) Pore lichen (Pertusaria) on bark of a juniper branch in McKinney Roughs Nature Park near Austin. Texas, March 17, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2883/jpeg/13t.jpg) Close-up of pore lichen (Pertusaria) on a juniper branch in McKinney Roughs Nature Park near Austin. Texas, March 17, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2883/jpeg/23t.jpg) Fringed puccoon (Narrowleaf gromwell, Lithospermum incisum) in McKinney Roughs Nature Park near Austin. Texas, March 17, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2884/jpeg/14t.jpg) Medallion lichen Dirinaria confusa on a juniper tree in McKinney Roughs Nature Park near Austin. Texas, March 17, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2884/jpeg/06t.jpg) White fringe lichen (Heterodermia albicans) on a tree (may be juniper) in McKinney Roughs Nature Park near Austin. Texas, March 17, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3112/jpeg/21t.jpg) Spores of fungus Sphaerosporium lignatile collected on Kiwanis Nature Trail. College Station, Texas, March 1, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2883/jpeg/21t.jpg) Medallion lichen Dirinaria confusa with black apothecia on juniper bark in McKinney Roughs Nature Park near Austin. Texas, March 17, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2884/jpeg/15t.jpg) Medallion lichen Dirinaria confusa with black apothecia on a juniper tree in McKinney Roughs Nature Park near Austin. Texas, March 17, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2883/jpeg/11t.jpg) Corticioid mushroom Dendrothele nivosa on bark of Eastern red cedar (Juniper) in McKinney Roughs Nature Park near Austin. Texas, March 17, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3112/jpeg/27t.jpg) Spores of fungus Sphaerosporium lignatile in KOH solution, collected on Kiwanis Nature Trail. College Station, Texas, March 1, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3401/jpeg/12t.jpg) Spores and conidiaohores(?) of fungus Botryobasidium robustius or may be B. aureum, collected on Kiwanis Nature Trail. College Station, Texas, May 1, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3401/jpeg/11t.jpg) Spores and hyphae of fungus Botryobasidium robustius or may be B. aureum, collected on Kiwanis Nature Trail. College Station, Texas, May 1, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3112/jpeg/22t.jpg) Spores of fungus Sphaerosporium lignatile under microscope, collected on Kiwanis Nature Trail. College Station, Texas, March 1, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3112/jpeg/25t.jpg) Large spores of fungus Sphaerosporium lignatile collected on Kiwanis Nature Trail. College Station, Texas, March 1, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2883/jpeg/09t.jpg) Dwarf rosette lichen Physcia neogaea on a dry pad of prickly pear cactus in prairie in McKinney Roughs Nature Park near Austin. Texas, March 17, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2883/jpeg/08t.jpg) Dwarf rosette lichen Physcia neogaea on a dry pad of prickly pear cactus (Opuntia) in McKinney Roughs Nature Park near Austin. Texas, March 17, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2883/jpeg/22t.jpg) Close-up of medallion lichen Dirinaria confusa with black apothecia on juniper bark in McKinney Roughs Nature Park near Austin. Texas, March 17, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3112/jpeg/24t.jpg) Spores of fungus Sphaerosporium lignatile in iodine solution, collected on Kiwanis Nature Trail. College Station, Texas, March 1, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3401/jpeg/10t.jpg) Spores and tissues of fungus Botryobasidium robustius or may be B. aureum (in KOH, low magnification), collected on Kiwanis Nature Trail. College Station, Texas, May 1, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3112/jpeg/23t.jpg) Spores of fungus Sphaerosporium lignatile at higher magnification, collected on Kiwanis Nature Trail. College Station, Texas, March 1, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3112/jpeg/26t.jpg) Large spores of fungus Sphaerosporium lignatile at higher magnification, collected on Kiwanis Nature Trail. College Station, Texas, March 1, 2022
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