Multiclavula 'Scum Lover'

Yes, 'Scum Lover' really is the common name...the spike like fruiting bodies of this basidiolichen can be seen here, 5mm in height on de-barked wood.

Also seen is what looks like an algal mat on the wood and that green mat is the lichen thallus, composed of both algal cells and hyphae. This fungus is always seen in association with algae.

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Christine Young

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Lol, I hadn't heard the common name "Scum Lover" before, but it is fitting. Posted 6 years ago
1. Ruth Spigelman
  
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  I just discovered this image had been placed in the wrong archive - it was in fact a sighting from Pennsylvania. I have edited the map record. I also have the wrong date attached to the image...a proper mess up for this one, apologies! Posted 6 years ago, modified 4 years ago

The White green-algae coral

Multiclavula mucida is a fungi in the Multiclavula genus. It is usually found scattered or grouped on algae-covered, wet, rotting wood; July through September. It appears as white, slender, cylindrical clubs; simple or rarely forked.

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Similar species: Cantharellales

Species identified by Christine Young