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Several “eggs” found at the base of a shrub outside DRNA office in Bosque de Maricao. I dissected a couple in the field, and to my surprise the context was uniform (greenish) and I saw no apparent developing stinkhorn outline like I would expect with Phallaceae. I took a couple home hoping they would “hatch” so I could photograph them. A couple days later I noticed fruit flies (Drosophila sp) attracted to the eggs which appeared to have exudate on the peridium surface despite not having hatched. I removed one and cut it open and the context was now uniform green liquid gleba with a smell of sweet decaying fruit.

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Originally posted to Mushroom Observer on Dec. 10, 2018.

Stilbella is just a guess. A synnematous anamorph which appears to be growing on the sap oozing from a wounded black cherry tree.

Green mass of conidia at the head. Whitish stipe. The conidiospores are sub-globose, nearly lemon shaped, 2.5-2.9 x 2.2-2.5µm.

beautiful perithecial Hypocrealean fungus on very rotten wood

Host unclear, on very rotten unidentified wood

Colonie effuse, composed of hundred of salmon/pinkish perithecia loosely embedded in a whitish subiculum. Perithecial wall composed of large cells up to about 10u, textura angularis (?). Asci uniseriate, difficult to visualize, octospored, but ascospores quickly break into two part spore inside of the asci. Part spore are triangular, smooth, hyaline and measure (3.5)4-5(5.5) - 1.5-2(2.5) and have a short appendage.

The habit of the spores to break into part spore is relatively common in the Hypocreaceae, however Arachnocrea is quite distinct by have a white subiculum and triangular part spores. A. scabrida have wider and ornamented spores.

On Gymnanthes lucida

Night walking, waiting for insects to come to blacklights I set up in three different spots around Long Pine Key.

My blacklighting observations from LPK before sunrise:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?on=2024-04-28&order=asc&order_by=observed_on&place_id=any&project_id=blacklighting-florida&user_id=joemdo

Video showing the lights I use for a typical setup:
https://youtu.be/tavmTa7WoPk

Blacklighting project for Florida: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/blacklighting-florida

More details in general about my 2024 City Nature Challenge:
https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/joemdo/93673-city-nature-challenge-2024