Peniophora albobadia

*Tentative ID

Habitat: Deciduous forest

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Ferdy Christant

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Beautiful, but a tough one. All I found is Peniophora albobadia, but it doesn't look like a match. Posted 6 years ago
1. Gary B
  
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  Well, you had better luck than me. Google's image search thinks this is a rock. I think it is a fungus that decomposes bark. Posted 6 years ago
2. 1. Christine Young
    
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    Thanks Gary! I did an image search also and google told me that this was a bunch of termites, haha.
    
    I am thinking fungus as well. Posted 6 years ago
  2. Ferdy Christant
    
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    Ha, you also did a reverse image search? I did too, and I got "caterpillar". Posted 6 years ago
  3. 1. Christine Young
      
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      I did, lol! I think google needs to do some tweaking on their image search function! Posted 6 years ago
    2. 1. Ferdy Christant
        
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        Oh yes, they do, it's of course a very hard problem to solve. I once investigated their enterprise image search option. Working for a healthtech company, I fed the algorithm various images of patients being hospitalised, interacting with medical equipment, and so on. Their recognition output: "meat".
        
        Not wrong, but slightly harsh if you ask me. Posted 6 years ago
      2. Christine Young
        
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        Oh man, that is kind of funny in a dark way. Posted 6 years ago
3. Christine Young
  
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  Peniophora albobadia is as close as I could find as well. I've posted it on MO and a FB group, but no luck with an ID so far. Posted 6 years ago
4. 1. Gary B
    
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    Just comparing others images with yours I think this might be Peniophora albobadia. I wonder how this would look if it were damp. Maybe more details would show? Posted 6 years ago
  2. 1. Christine Young
      
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      Good point. I can't find anything else similar except Peniophora albobadia. I wish I had kept this stick! But, I'm going to go ahead and ID it as Peniophora albobadia for now. Posted 6 years ago

The Giraffe Spots

''Peniophora albobadia'' is a species of crust fungus in the family Peniophoraceae. It is a plant pathogen that affects stone fruits. First described scientifically by Lewis David de Schweinitz in 1822, it was transferred to the genus ''Peniophora'' by Jacques Boidin in 1961.

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Similar species: Russulales

Species identified by Christine Young

By Christine Young

Uploaded Mar 17, 2019. Captured Oct 28, 2018 11:41 in 91 Main St, Sharon, CT 06069, USA.

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