Oak Tree Damage

 

More Crusts

I find these everywhere I walk.

On a hanging branch close to the meadow.

Book - Entangled Life

I learned a lot about the study of fungi from this book. 

Orange Jelly Fungus

Tremella aurantia is a parasite of Stereum species and typically fruits with its host on hardwoods usually with intact bark. Usually fruits on crust fungus.
Dacrymyces chrysospermus is a yellow-orange jelly fungus which closely mimics Tremella aurantia, the common witch's butter. The two taxa are best told apart in the field by differences in habit and substrate. Tremella aurantia is a parasite of Stereum species and typically fruits with its host on hardwoods usually with intact bark. In contrast, Dacrymyces chrysospermus occurs on decorticated (bark removed) conifer wood and is not associated with Stereum species.
(de·cor·ti·cate  -  dēˈkôrdəˌkāt/)

On a leaf.

Backside of the leaf. 

More Crust Fungus - Stereum Hirsutum

These were under the fir by the camas field. 

Cap - Smooth: a cap peels away from the flat surface, but the underside and part that lies flat on the wood is smooth or almost completely so.

Stereum - the most common genus in this category by far, recognized by a bright orange or dull orange-tan underside and flat surface, as well as a somewhat hairy, orange, concentrically zoned cap. They grow most often on hardwoods. Some are called false turkey tails because of their resemblance to Trametes (which are pored underneath).

Shelf Fungus - Pink Rhodofomes

Pink tinted shelf fungus.

On tall fir trunk. 

Widely distributed in North America's conifer forests, Rhodofomes cajanderi is a tough polypore with a gorgeous pink pore surface and, when fresh and young, pink shades on its cap surface. The caps are generally fairly thin, and often fused together, forming a structure in which individual caps are hard to define.

Crust Fungus

On a tall fir stump - upper side.

Under side of crust fungus. 

On a tall fir stump, upper side.

Underside 

Effused-reflexed is a term used to describe a mushroom on a vertical surface that is partially resupinate and partially pileate. The pileate portion of an effused-reflexed fruiting body is necessarily sessile. The part that's sticking out is sometimes called the reflexed portion, and the resupinate part is sometimes called the effused portion.

Effused-reflexed — an effused basidioma (fruiting body) whose margin grows away from the substrate to form a small cap, or pileus (reflexed margin)

Resupinate - bent back with the face upward

Pileated - wearing a cap.

Sessile - no stalk, fixed in one place.

Effused - effusive - stick out

Alden Dirks - U Michigan - https://www.crustfungi.com/html/sidebar/introduction.html 

https://www.aldendirks.com/ 

all of Nature run by volunteers - https://www.first-nature.com/fungi/~brackets.php# 

PNW: https://www.alpental.com/psms/PNWMushrooms/PictorialKey/Crusts.htm

Barred Owl Sighting

Got a picture of this barred owl in the Preserve.

Picture taken at green arrow. 

Red-belted Polypore

    
Photo from 
https://grownandgathered.wordpress.com/tag/northwest-polypores/
Red-belted polypores (fomitopsis pinicola) are a type of polypore that grow in conifer forests in the Northen Hemisphere.  They are a perennial that is extremely durable, growing additional tubes every year. Prevalent in the NW, these mushrooms are often found on dead or dying Hemlock and Douglas fir, and look like shelves rather than umbrellas – their caps are fairly flat (though they do slope gently), with the pores on the underside of the mushroom, sloping downward more steeply.

   The red-belted polypores are easy to distinguish from other polypores, as their reddish-brown color is surrounded by a cream edge (they are browner in youth, redder as they reach maturity, and can turn nearly black when they are very old).  They are non-varnished on top, and the cream surface on the underside of the mushroom does not bruise easily (unlike the polypore known as the artist’s conk).   Polypores are fairly recognizable in their shape (shelf-like), durability (durable and woody), and location on dead/dying coniferous trees, (though they are not the only mushrooms that grow on such tree), but once you have identified a mushroom as a polypore, almost always safe to ingest.

Tree Trunks with Stereum Fungus

These are near the top of a dead tall stump.

Another on also has a licorice fern growing on the top. 

Bracket Fungus

The stump with the bracket fungus near the Walton's field.

A new bracket fungus on the side of a stump under a big Doug Fir.

This one was on the end of the broken part of the tree.

Tree is a Doug Fir. 

Another Fallen Oak Tree

This clump of fallen oaks is at the corner of the fence.

The left one has a rotten center.

Both trees were dead. 

Shelf Fungus

This is the first year I have seen tiny shelf fungus on this log.

The log is by the corner where the cross trail goes south.

Looks like several different varieties.

The underside is dark. 

Moss, Algae and Lichen

Moss and Lichen/Algae

Very full of pores. 

Will monitor.

White and brown lichen? 

 

Another Oak Tree Fell

This tree is across the path from the other two.

Same kind of break, near the base.

All the trees were already dead. 

Waterfowl Return

Mallards.

Wood Ducks

 

White Feathery Fungus

 

Water in Our Pond

No waterfowl. 

 

Fallen Oak Trees with Crust Fungi

Interesting fungi on the fallen tree.

Could be brown crust fungus.

This tree came down recently.

The hole where this tree grew.

Another fallen tree nearby.

The hole where the soil lifted up with the shallow roots.

These two trees are near the steps halfway to the fence along Marvin Rd.