![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3476/jpeg/13t.jpg) Black dots of Sordariomycetes fungi on bark of a fallen tree in wet area in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 23, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3476/jpeg/14t.jpg) Pattern of black dots of Sordariomycetes fungi on bark of a fallen tree in wet area in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 23, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3477/jpeg/25t.jpg) Spores (in KOH) from black dots of Sordariomycetes fungi on bark of a fallen tree in wet area, collected a day before in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 24, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3477/jpeg/24t.jpg) Spores (in KOH, low magnification) from black dots of Sordariomycetes fungi on bark of a fallen tree in wet area, collected a day before in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 24, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3474/jpeg/20t.jpg) Close-up of black fungus Biscogniauxia repanda (Sordariomycetes) on bark of a fallen honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos) in wet area in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 20, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3474/jpeg/19t.jpg) Close-up of black fungus Biscogniauxia repanda (Sordariomycetes) on a fallen honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos) in wet area in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 20, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3474/jpeg/18t.jpg) Black fungus Biscogniauxia repanda (Sordariomycetes) on a fallen honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos) in wet area in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 20, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3474/jpeg/21t.jpg) Texture of black fungus Biscogniauxia repanda (Sordariomycetes) on a fallen honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos) in wet area in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 20, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3474/jpeg/25t.jpg) Tissue (in KOH) of black fungus Biscogniauxia repanda (Sordariomycetes) from a fallen honey locust, collected in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 20, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3475/jpeg/25t.jpg) Spores of black fungus Biscogniauxia repanda (Sordariomycetes) from a fallen honey locust, collected 2 days before in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 22, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3476/jpeg/16t.jpg) Close-up of black Hysteroid pyrenomycetous fungi on a log of mulberry in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 23, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3476/jpeg/17t.jpg) Black Hysteroid pyrenomycetous fungi on a log of mulberry in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 23, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2645/jpeg/05t.jpg) Close-up of black crust fungus Biscogniauxia repanda on a fallen tree branch in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 13, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3476/jpeg/05t.jpg) Close-up of yellow corticioid fungus Phlebia subochracea on a fallen hardwood tree in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 23, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2209/jpeg/28t.jpg) Black dots of Ascomycota fungi on a bamboo stem on Kiwanis Nature Trail. College Station, Texas, December 7, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3475/jpeg/18t.jpg) Close-up of bark of lacebark elm tree (Ulmus parvifolia) in Wolf Pen Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 22, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3476/jpeg/09t.jpg) Close-up of light violet fluffy corticioid fungus growing on old polypore mushroom Fomitiporia on a fallen tree in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 23, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2190/jpeg/10t.jpg) Sordariomycetes fungi on decaying wood in Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 25, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3474/jpeg/16t.jpg) Close-up of thin violet and brown corticioid fungus on a fallen honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos) in wet area in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 20, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3476/jpeg/08t.jpg) Yellow corticioid fungus Phlebia subochracea covering large area on a fallen hardwood tree in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 23, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2645/jpeg/03t.jpg) Black crust fungus Biscogniauxia repanda on a fallen tree branch in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 13, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2207/jpeg/11t.jpg) Close up of black dots of a fungus Biscogniauxia atropunctata (Hypoxylon atropunctatum) in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, December 2, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3465/jpeg/19t.jpg) Some orange powderpuff polypore mushrooms on a fallen wet hardwood twig of oak or black locust in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 2, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2445/jpeg/31t.jpg) Close up of bark sulphur-firedot lichen (Gyalolechia flavorubescens, Caloplaca flavorubescens) on a hackberry tree in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 3, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3145/jpeg/05t.jpg) Black Sordariomycetes fungi on decaying wood on Caney Creek Trail (Little Lake Creek Loop Trail) in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, May 4, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3465/jpeg/20t.jpg) Close-up of orange powderpuff polypore mushrooms on a fallen wet hardwood twig in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 2, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3465/jpeg/18t.jpg) Corticioid fungus Dichostereum effuscatum on a fallen hardwood tree in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 2, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2557/jpeg/12t.jpg) Black dots of fruiting structures of a fungus Ophiodothella vaccinii on leaves of farkleberry (Vaccinium arboreum) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 2, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2378/jpeg/12t.jpg) Black dots of fruiting structures of a fungus Ophiodothella vaccinii on leaves of farkleberry (Vaccinium arboreum) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 9, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2954/jpeg/15t.jpg) Some corticioid white and brown fungi on oak bark in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, June 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3476/jpeg/03t.jpg) Yellow corticioid fungus Phlebia subochracea on a fallen hardwood tree in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 23, 2024
![](../../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/2017/2207/jpeg/09t.jpg) Gray-white smooth sheet with black dots of a fungus Biscogniauxia atropunctata (Hypoxylon atropunctatum) on a dry oak tree in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, December 2, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3476/jpeg/04t.jpg) Pillbug on yellow corticioid fungus Phlebia subochracea on a fallen hardwood tree in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 23, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3476/jpeg/06t.jpg) Texture of yellow corticioid fungus Phlebia subochracea on a fallen hardwood tree in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 23, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2954/jpeg/16t.jpg) Close-up of corticioid brown fungus on bark of a fallen oak branch in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, June 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/900/jpeg/26t.jpg) Bark on a fallen tree near Racoon Run Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, December 21, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3475/jpeg/17t.jpg) Bark of lacebark elm tree (Ulmus parvifolia) in Wolf Pen Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 22, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3477/jpeg/20t.jpg) Spores of yellow corticioid fungus Phlebia subochracea from a fallen hardwood tree, collected a day before in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 24, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3476/jpeg/07t.jpg) Growth pattern of yellow corticioid fungus Phlebia subochracea on a fallen hardwood tree in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 23, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3107/jpeg/02t.jpg) Close-up of milk-white toothed polypore mushroom (Irpex lacteus) on a fallen tree branch on Iron Bridge Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 14, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3476/jpeg/10t.jpg) Light violet powdery corticioid fungus growing on old polypore mushroom Fomitiporia on a fallen tree in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 23, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2715/jpeg/26t.jpg) Pale brown Mycena(?) mushrooms on bark of a large fallen tree in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 27, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3475/jpeg/19t.jpg) Mottled multicolored bark of lacebark elm tree (Ulmus parvifolia) in Wolf Pen Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 22, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3476/jpeg/11t.jpg) Light violet powdery corticioid fungus growing on old blackened polypore mushroom Fomitiporia on a fallen tree in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 23, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3324/jpeg/26t.jpg) Close-up of corticioid mushroom Dendrothele macrodens on bark of a recently fallen large hackberry in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 9, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3316/jpeg/27t.jpg) Crust fungus Hymenochaete on bark of a fallen branch of a pecan tree in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 2, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2425/jpeg/06t.jpg) Speckled blister lichen Trypethelium tropicum (Nigrovothelium tropicum) with black perithecia on bark of hackberry tree in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 1, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3101/jpeg/10t.jpg) Close-up of elbowpatch crust fungus (Fomitiporia punctata) on a dry black locust tree in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 25, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3476/jpeg/12t.jpg) Light violet powdery corticioid fungus growing on old blackened polypore mushroom Fomitiporia on a fallen hardwood tree in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 23, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3476/jpeg/01t.jpg) Melanoleuca mushroom with a black cap in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 23, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3474/jpeg/13t.jpg) Fungus Biscogniauxia repanda on a fallen honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos) in wet area in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 20, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3536/jpeg/31t.jpg) Black dots on a fallen oak leaf (some fungus) in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, May 15, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3642/jpeg/25t.jpg) Crustose lichens on bark of a fallen water oak in ultraviolet light on Racoon Run Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 15, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3315/jpeg/22t.jpg) Thin light colored grainy corticioid fungus on bark of a fallen broadleaf tree in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 2, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2450/jpeg/14t.jpg) Punctelia, Pertusaria and Phaeographis lichens on tree bark in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 20, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2695/jpeg/18t.jpg) Tiny black dots of Ascomycota fungus on a fallen stem of giant cane (Arundinaria gigantea) on Kiwanis Nature Trail. College Station, Texas, April 29, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3476/jpeg/02t.jpg) Underside of Melanoleuca mushroom with a black cap in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 23, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3045/jpeg/24t.jpg) Some black and may be slightly blue-green Sordariomycetes growing over Hypoxylon, may be a mycoparasitic fungus Chlorostroma, showing ostioles on a cut surface, found on a fallen tree on Caney Creek Trail (Little Lake Creek Loop Trail) in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, October 21, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3474/jpeg/14t.jpg) Thin violet and brown crust fungus on a fallen honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos) in wet area in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 20, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3474/jpeg/15t.jpg) Thin violet and brown corticioid fungus on a fallen honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos) in wet area in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 20, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/906/jpeg/25t.jpg) Dead tree bark in swampy area near Racoon Run Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 14, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3140/jpeg/12t.jpg) Corticioid (crust) fungi on a fallen oak(?) tree in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, April 28, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3338/jpeg/20t.jpg) Corticioid fungus Dendrothele candida on bark of a fallen oak on Racoon Run Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 9, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2445/jpeg/22t.jpg) Rough speckled shield lichen (Punctelia rudecta) on tree bark in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 3, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3097/jpeg/05t.jpg) Close-up of resupinate polypore mushroom on a fallen tree in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 11, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3462/jpeg/01t.jpg) Close-up of tiny black Ascomycete fungus Trichoderma citrinoviride (Hypocrea schweinitzii) on a fallen pine without bark on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, January 27, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3473/jpeg/16t.jpg) Close-up of red basal leaves of stemless evening primrose (Oenothera triloba) with tiny black spots of fungus Cryptostictis oenotherae (Pestalotia oenotherae)(?) on a lawn on Lick Creek Greenway Trail. College Station, Texas, February 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3474/jpeg/17t.jpg) Pattern of thin violet and brown corticioid fungus on a fallen honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos) in wet area in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 20, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3475/jpeg/23t.jpg) Close-up of a cut knee of bald cypress tree on a lawn in Wolf Pen Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 22, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3532/jpeg/19t.jpg) Black crust of fungus Annulohypoxylon archeri and parasitic mushroom Silver ear (Tremella fuciformis) on a fallen oak in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 10, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2645/jpeg/04t.jpg) Black crust fungus Biscogniauxia repanda on a fallen limb in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 13, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3537/jpeg/25t.jpg) Asci and paraphyses(?) of a fungus showing as black dots on a fallen oak leaf (x40 objective, in KOH), collected in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, May 15, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3462/jpeg/04t.jpg) Close-up of black Ascomycete fungus Trichoderma citrinoviride (Hypocrea schweinitzii) growing together with Trichaptum on a fallen pine without bark on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, January 27, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2973/jpeg/27t.jpg) Close-up of resupinate polypore mushroom Fomitiporia on a fallen tree in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, July 3, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3155/jpeg/33t.jpg) Close-up of split porecrust fungus (Schizopora paradoxa) on a fallen tree in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 20, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3388/jpeg/17t.jpg) Close-up of orange paint-like corticioid fungus on a fallen elm(?) or oak tree in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, April 19, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3474/jpeg/22t.jpg) Patch of thin violet and brown corticioid (crust) fungus on a fallen honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos) in wet area in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 20, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2373/jpeg/16t.jpg) Cup fungi Phillipsia crispata(?) and Sarcoscypha occidentalis on wet fallen branches in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 3, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2374/jpeg/04t.jpg) Fungi Entonaema liquescens and Phillipsia crispata(?) on fallen branches in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 3, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3537/jpeg/26t.jpg) Asci and paraphyses(?) of a fungus showing as black dots on a fallen oak leaf (x40 objective, in Congo red), collected in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, May 15, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3636/jpeg/02t.jpg) Crustose lichens on bark of a small honey mesquite tree when exposed to regular daylight as well as when illuminated by a 365 nm ultraviolet (UV-A) blacklight in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 25, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3338/jpeg/21t.jpg) White spots of corticioid fungus Dendrothele candida on bark of a fallen oak on Racoon Run Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 9, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3526/jpeg/17t.jpg) Close-up of frothy porecrust fungus (Oxyporus latemarginatus)(?) on a wet tree branch in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 4, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3315/jpeg/24t.jpg) Close-up of thin violet crust fungus Peniophora(?) on a fallen tree in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 2, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3097/jpeg/08t.jpg) Close-up of crust fungus Phlebiopsis crassa on a fallen tree branch in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 11, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2861/jpeg/04t.jpg) Close-up of resupinate polypore mushroom Perenniporia tenuis(?) on a fallen tree in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 28, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3388/jpeg/30t.jpg) Close-up of orange tooth-like corticioid fungus on a fallen tree branch in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, April 19, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3377/jpeg/05t.jpg) Close-up of tooth fungus Mycoaciella bispora on underside of a fallen tree in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, April 3, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3388/jpeg/15t.jpg) Close-up of white paint-like corticioid fungus on a fallen barkless elm(?) tree in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, April 19, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3535/jpeg/07t.jpg) Cup fungi Geopora arenosa(?) or may be G. arenicola, G. sepulta under juniper on Closed Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 13, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3447/jpeg/04t.jpg) Black crust fungus Sphaeria subiculata (Rosellinia subiculata)(?) under a fallen hardwood tree in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, December 20, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3636/jpeg/03t.jpg) Pertusaria and other crustose lichen on bark of a small honey mesquite tree when exposed to regular daylight as well as when illuminated by a 365 nm ultraviolet (UV-A) blacklight in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 25, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3325/jpeg/11t.jpg) Spores shaped as viruses or blood clots of corticioid mushroom Dendrothele macrodens from bark of a recently fallen big hackberry tree, collected a day before in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 10, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/906/jpeg/26t.jpg) Rows of fresh and old sapsucker holes on tree bark in swampy area near Racoon Run Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 14, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3461/jpeg/16t.jpg) Close-up of amber jelly fungus (Exidia recisa) on a fallen oak twig in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 25, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3201/jpeg/32t.jpg) Close-up of light brown corticioid (crust) fungus on thin fallen tree from Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 2, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3072/jpeg/14t.jpg) Close-up of giraffe spots fungus (Peniophora albobadia) on a fallen thin tree in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 29, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3138/jpeg/21t.jpg) Close-up of netted crust fungus (Byssomerulius corium) on a fallen tree branch in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, April 26, 2022
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