 Yellow plasmodium of a slime mold on a wet pine log near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 25, 2024
 Red raspberry slime mold (Tubifera ferruginosa) on a wet pine log near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 25, 2024
 Close-up of red raspberry slime mold (Tubifera ferruginosa) on a vertically cut surface of a large fallen pine near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, February 18, 2024
 Close-up of slime mold Tubifera dimorphotheca on a mossy pine log near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, May 7, 2022
 Red raspberry slime mold (Tubifera ferruginosa) on a vertically cut surface of a large fallen pine near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, February 18, 2024
 Pattern of red raspberry slime mold (Tubifera ferruginosa) on a vertically cut surface of a large fallen pine near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, February 18, 2024
 Texture of red raspberry slime mold (Tubifera ferruginosa) on a vertically cut surface of a large fallen pine near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, February 18, 2024
 Slime mold Lycogala exiguum on a wet pine log near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, May 7, 2022
 Masses of slime mold Tubifera dimorphotheca on a pine log near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, May 7, 2022
 Slime mold Tubifera dimorphotheca on a wet rotting pine log near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, May 7, 2022
 Slime mold Tubifera dimorphotheca on a mossy pine log near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, May 7, 2022
 Close-up of mature stage of slime mold Tubifera dimorphotheca on a log near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, June 8, 2021
 Side view of slime mold Tubifera dimorphotheca on a pine log near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, May 7, 2022
 Caca de luna slime mold (Reticularia lycoperdon, Enteridium lycoperdon) on a side surface of a large fallen pine near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, February 18, 2024
 Cross section of caca de luna slime mold (Reticularia lycoperdon, Enteridium lycoperdon) on a large fallen pine near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, February 18, 2024
 Caca de luna slime mold (Reticularia lycoperdon, Enteridium lycoperdon) on a vertically cut surface of a large fallen pine near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, February 18, 2024
 Close-up of mature Caca de luna slime mold (Reticularia lycoperdon, Enteridium lycoperdon) on a cut surface of a fallen pine on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, March 5, 2024
 Carnival candy slime mold (Arcyria incarnata) on a pine log on Forest Service Rd 231 near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, October 22, 2022
 Wolf s Milk slime mold (Lycogala epidendrum) on a fallen pine on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, March 5, 2024
 Caterpillar with yellow and brown stripes under a log near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 25, 2024
 Yellow fibrecap mushrooms Inocybe auricoma(?) near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 25, 2024
 Slime mold Tubifera dimorphotheca on a partially burned log near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, June 8, 2021
 Close-up of resupinate polypore mushroom Skeletocutis odora on a vertically cut surface of a pine near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, November 7, 2024
 Close-up of earthfan mushrooms (Thelephora terrestris) near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 25, 2024
 Brown mature stage of slime mold Tubifera dimorphotheca on a log near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, June 8, 2021
 Side view of mature stage of slime mold Tubifera dimorphotheca on a log near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, June 8, 2021
 Mature Caca de luna slime mold (Reticularia lycoperdon, Enteridium lycoperdon) on a cut surface of a fallen pine on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, March 5, 2024
 Pink and dark stages of slime mold Tubifera dimorphotheca on a partially burned log near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, June 8, 2021
 Side view of young pinkish stage of slime mold Tubifera dimorphotheca on a log near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, June 8, 2021
 Brown spores of mature Caca de luna slime mold (Reticularia lycoperdon, Enteridium lycoperdon) on a cut surface of a fallen pine on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, March 5, 2024
 Close-up of white resupinate polypore mushroom on bark of a fallen pine branch when exposed to regular daylight as well as when illuminated by a 365 nm ultraviolet (UV-A) blacklight near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, August 31, 2024
 Underside of Smoky bracket polypore mushroom (Bjerkandera adusta) covered by yellow plasmodium of a slime mold on South Wilderness Loop Trail at Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest near Richards. Texas, December 26, 2021
 Close-up of resupinate polypore mushroom on a fallen pine near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, February 9, 2022
 Close-up of interior section of yellow false truffle fungus (Rhizopogon luteolus) near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, November 12, 2023
 Close-up of pore surface of a mushroom Boletus durhamensis near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, September 26, 2024
 Yellow false truffle mushroom (Rhizopogon luteolus) near exposed pine roots near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, November 12, 2023
 Close-up of resupinate polypore mushroom Skeletocutis odora on a big wet fallen pine near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, August 31, 2022
 Close-up of small mushrooms Marasmius delectans(?) on fallen pine needles near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, August 20, 2022
 Close-up of white resupinate polypore mushroom on bark of a fallen pine branch near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, May 7, 2022
 Masses of yellow spores of a timber mushroom Inonotus andersonii on a fallen oak near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, February 18, 2024
 Fallen oak covered by yellow spores from a timber mushroom Inonotus andersonii near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, February 18, 2024
 Close up of a tree dwelling moss Leucodon julaceous on a fallen oak near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, January 4, 2024
 Close-up of resupinate form of polypore mushroom Trichaptum abietinum on underside of a fallen pine near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, November 12, 2023
 Close-up of corticioid fungus Gloeoporus ambiguus (Meruliopsis ambigua) on a fallen pine branch near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, January 13, 2021
 Close-up of light brown corticioid mushroom on underside of a fallen pine on Forest Service Rd 231 near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, October 22, 2022
 Resupinate polypore mushroom Skeletocutis odora on a vertically cut surface of a pine near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, November 7, 2024
 Spores (in KOH) of Caca de luna slime mold (Reticularia lycoperdon, Enteridium lycoperdon) collected on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, March 5, 2024
 Goat s rue (Tephrosia virginiana) near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 25, 2024
 Close-up of yellow fuzzy spotted Apatelodes caterpillar (Apatelodes torrefacta) near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, October 22, 2022
 Close-up of common pinmould fungus (Mucor mucedo) on animal dung on a big mossy fallen oak near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, January 4, 2024
 Creeping moss on a wet pine log when exposed to regular daylight as well as when illuminated by a 365 nm ultraviolet (UV-A) blacklight near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, August 31, 2024
 Texture of resupinate polypore mushroom Skeletocutis odora on a vertically cut surface of a pine near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, November 7, 2024
 Growth of resupinate polypore mushroom Skeletocutis odora on a vertically cut surface of a pine near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, November 7, 2024
 Indian plantain (Cacalia plantaginea) near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 25, 2024
 Flowers of Goat s rue (Tephrosia virginiana) near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 25, 2024
 Earthfan mushrooms (Thelephora terrestris) near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 25, 2024
 Neohygrocybe or may be Gamundia or Fayodia mushrooms near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 25, 2024
 White-flowered milkweed (Asclepias variegata) near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 25, 2024
 Close-up of common thin grey, bluish crust fungus on wet bark and wood on underside of pine logs near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, December 3, 2023
 Close-up of orange and white resupinate polypore mushroom Skeletocutis odora on a vertically cut surface of a fallen pine near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, December 3, 2023
 Close-up of corticioid fungus Gloeoporus ambiguus (Meruliopsis ambigua) in fresh form on a fallen pine branch near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, August 20, 2022
 Green moss on a large wet pine log when exposed to regular daylight as well as when illuminated by a 365 nm ultraviolet (UV-A) blacklight near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, August 31, 2024
 Close-up of Milk-white Toothed Polypore mushrooms (Irpex lacteus)(?) on a tall stump of elm(?) tree near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, January 4, 2024
 Side view of Neohygrocybe or may be Gamundia or Fayodia mushrooms near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 25, 2024
 Damaged pine tree with drops of resin when exposed to regular daylight as well as when illuminated by a 365 nm ultraviolet (UV-A) blacklight near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, August 31, 2024
 Resin flow on a trunk of a damaged pine when exposed to regular daylight as well as when illuminated by a 365 nm ultraviolet (UV-A) blacklight near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, August 31, 2024
 Slime mold Lycogala epidendrum under a microscope, collected on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, March 5, 2022
 Wolf s milk slime mold (Lycogala epidendrum) on an oak log on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, March 5, 2022
 Tiny mushrooms Marasmius epiphyllus(?) among fallen wet pine needles and oak leaves after a rain near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 14, 2023
 Patterns of resin flow on a trunk of a damaged pine when exposed to regular daylight as well as when illuminated by a 365 nm ultraviolet (UV-A) blacklight near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, August 31, 2024
 Close-up of leaves of leaf-flower plant Phyllanthus niruri when exposed to regular daylight as well as when illuminated by a 365 nm ultraviolet (UV-A) blacklight near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, August 31, 2024
 Bronze beetles on flowers of white-flowered milkweed (Asclepias variegata) near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 25, 2024
 Pines and elm trees in a ravine of Pole Creek near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, March 27, 2024
 Close-up of slime mold Fuligo cinerea on a fallen pine on North Wilderness Trail in Sam Houston National Forest near Montgomery. Texas, April 14, 2022
 Close up of pine-pine gall rust (Endocronartium harknessii, Cronartium harknessii rust fungus) near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, March 11, 2023
 Mantis with white mold of fungus Beauveria bassiana near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, November 12, 2023
 White resupinate polypore mushroom on bark of a fallen pine branch when exposed to regular daylight as well as when illuminated by a 365 nm ultraviolet (UV-A) blacklight near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, August 31, 2024
 Yellow wood sorrel (Oxalis) near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, March 26, 2022
 Close up of orange plasmodium of many-headed slime mold Physarum polycephalum on a mossy pine log on Caney Creek Trail (Little Lake Creek Loop Trail) in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, June 27, 2019
 Mushrooms Boletus durhamensis (color of a cap changes firstly to orange-brown in KOH, then after 5 minutes it bleaches to yellow-brown, and finally to yellowish white) near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, September 26, 2024
 Flowers of yellow wood sorrel (Oxalis) near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, March 26, 2022
 False truffle (Rhizopogon luteolus) covered by some white mold fungus Hypomyces near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, November 12, 2023
 Pinkish mold-like fungus Hypomyces samuelsii(?) on polypore mushrooms Trametes ochracea near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, December 3, 2023
 Polypore mushrooms Trametes ochracea with pinkish mold-like fungus Hypomyces samuelsii(?) near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, December 3, 2023
 Mature bracket mushrooms Daedaleopsis confragosa with mold fumgus Hypomyces on an oak branch near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, December 15, 2021
 Orange plasmodium of many-headed slime mold Physarum polycephalum with coral slime mold (Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa var. porioides) on a big fallen pine on Caney Creek Trail (Little Lake Creek Loop Trail) in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, June 27, 2019
 Close-up of zoned bracket polypore mushroom near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, June 8, 2021
 Close-up of corticioid mushroom Phlebiopsis crassa near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, February 21, 2021
 Close-up of a bolete mushroom Gyroporus phaeocyanescens near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, July 11, 2021
 Close-up of corticioid mushroom Hymenochaete on an oak branch near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, February 21, 2021
 Milkcap mushrooms Lactifluus subvellereus (Lactarius subvellereus) with a cross section near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 25, 2024
 Large white milkcap mushrooms Lactifluus subvellereus (Lactarius subvellereus) near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 25, 2024
 Yellow false truffle fungus (Rhizopogon luteolus) on a path near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, November 12, 2023
 Pole Creek near North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, March 27, 2024
 Mature bracket mushrooms Daedaleopsis confragosa with mold fumgus Hypomyces on a fallen tree near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, December 15, 2021
 Underside of bracket mushrooms Daedaleopsis confragosa with mold fumgus Hypomyces on a fallen tree near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, December 15, 2021
 Ravine of Pole Creek near North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, March 27, 2024
 Close-up of pores of bolete mushroom Buchwaldoboletus hemichrysus near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, August 31, 2022
 Close-up of urchin earthfan fungus (Thelephora penicillata) near Pole Creek on North Wilderness Trail of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, June 8, 2021
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