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Fungi

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Dung-loving bird's nest fungi
Yellow cobblestone lichen
Mayapple rust
Mayapple rust
Mayapple rust (Allodus podophylli)
Common script lichen
Amanita
Amanita
American yellow fly agaric
Honey mushrooms
Honey mushroom rhizomorphs
Arthrophaga myriapodina
Purple jellydisc
Purple jellydisc
Purple jellydisc
Hairy wood ear fungus
Sulphur disco
Berkeley's polypore
Stalked puffball-in-aspic
Stalked puffball-in-aspic
Stalked puffball-in-aspic
Yellow fairy cups
Red chanterelles
Mulberry leaf spot
Powderpuff lichen (Cladina evansii)
Common powderhorn
Evan's deer moss
Violet coral
Spindle-shaped orange coral fungus
Christmas lichen
Dung-loving bird's nest fungi
Dung-loving bird's nest fungi
Dung-loving bird's nest fungi
Dung-loving bird's nest fungi
Dung-loving bird's nest
Dung-loving bird's nest
Dung-loving bird's nest fungi
Dung-loving bird's nest
Fluted bird's nest fungus
Orange jelly spot
Orange jellyspot
Orange jelly spot
Dacrymyces sp.
Dacrymyces sp.
Dacrymyces sp.
Orange jelly spot
Fan-shaped jelly fungus
Oak mazegill
Daldinia vernicosa
Daldinia vernicosa
Daldinia vernicosa
Dendrothele nivosa
Stippleback lichen
Stippleback lichen
Golden moonbeam lichen
Orange hobnail canker
Orange hobnail canker
Orange hobnail canker
Orange hobnail canker
Orange hobnail canker
Exobasidium ferrugineae
Exobasidium ferrugineae
Common greenshield lichen
Hyphae
Hemlock varnish shelf
Hemlock varnish shelf
Gibellula
Gymnosporangium sp.
Quince rust
Helicogloea compressa
Beech woodwart
Beech woodwart
Beech woodwarts
Chicken of the woods
Blistered navel lichen
Pennsylvania toadskin lichen
Leotia atrovirens
Jelly baby
Wolf lichen
Wolf lichen
Wolf lichen
Wolf lichen
Peeling puffball (Lycoperdon marginatum)
Pinwheel mushrooms
Black-staining polypore
Multiclavula mucida
Multiclavula mucida
Multiclavula mucida
White green-algae coral
White green-algae coral
Bark Mycena
Bark Mycena
Bark Mycena
Bark Mycena
Bark Mycena
Mycosphaerella impatientis
Mycosphaerella impatientis
Naematelia encephala
Orbilia sp.
Pelt lichen
Wrinkled crust
Rosette lichen
Shelf fungus with droplets
Common stump brittlestem
Exobasidium ferruginea
Puccinia sparganioides
Puccinia sparganioidis
Puccinia sparganioides
Puccinia sparganioides
Asian beauty
Asian beauty
Asian beauty
Ribbon lichen
Coral fungus
Coral fungus
Ramariopsis sp.
White coral fungus
Green rock-posy
Green rock-posy
Green rock-posy
Black tar spot
Black tar spot
Rosellinia subiculata
Split-gill fungus
Splitgill mushrooms
Common earthball
Common earthball
Earthball
Many-rooted earthball
Eyelash cups
White coral jelly fungus
White coral jelly fungus
Crowded parchement
Stereum
Taphrina caerulescens
Turkey tail
Golden ear
Yellow brain fungus
Trichaptum sp.
Violet-toothed polypore
Hairy earthtongue
Umbilicaria mammulata
Xylaria
Xylaria longiana
Xylaria longiana

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