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Parasitized Bolete Bolete eater,Fall,Geotagged,Hypomyces chrysospermus,United States Click/tap to enlarge Country intro

Parasitized Bolete

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    Ferdy Christant
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    A complicated interaction this is. What are the critters?

    Update: sorry, saw your other photo that explains it:

    Layers of life So this is a closer photo of the last subject, which is a mold that grows on mushrooms... <br /> so - mushrooms grow on decomposing plant materials, the mold grows on the mushrooms, and these tiny spring tails seem to quite love the mold.. I'll bet if I could look even closer there's something even smaller living on the springtails. Fall,Geotagged,United States
     Posted 9 years ago, modified 9 years ago

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The Bolete eater

The bolete eater, "Hypomyces chrysospermus", is a parasitic ascomycete fungus that grows on bolete mushrooms, turning the afflicted host a whitish, golden yellow, or tan color. It is found in Eurasia and North America, as well as southwest Western Australia. Unlike the related Lobster mushroom, "H. lactifluorum", the bolete eater and its afflicted host mushrooms are inedible.

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Similar species: Hypocreales
Species identified by morpheme
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Uploaded Sep 23, 2015. Captured Oct 23, 2015 12:03 in Tiger Mountain Trail, Issaquah, WA 98027, USA.
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Captured in the fall. More fall photos.

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