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- Hexagonia hydnoides with its impressive hairy caps seen in Montana, Casanare.
- Oudemansiella canarii, the Canary porcelain fungus, is a common edible wood decayer.
- Hexagonia hydnoides pores under attack by hungry critters. Seen in Montana, Casanare.
- Favolaschia sp. lined up on the edge of a palm fond near San Louis de Palenque, Casanare, Colombia
- the backside of Favolaschia caps. The fertile tissue on the other side has big pores, some of them shining subtly through the orange caps.
- Calvatia cyathiformis, the purple-spored puffball seen in Chivor forest near Santa Maria
- Calvatia cyathiformis fruitingbody with its transect showing the immature fertile tissue. With maturity it will turn purple due the spore color.
- Calvatia cyathiformis, the purple-spored puffball is a big and widely distributed puffball
- tiny Moelleriella fruiting bodies seen on a leaf in Chivor
Moelleriella is a genus of fungi within the Clavicipitaceae family (most famous for ergot - Claviceps purpurea) that infect and kill aphids. When checking leaves closely in the rainy season, Moeleriella species are everywhere, but due to their tiny size, most people never see this fungus. - Ascopolyporus sp. (Corducipitataceae) growing in Chivor above Sta Maria, Boyaca, Colombia
This interesting Cordyceps relative parasitizes aphids. However, most of its resources it receives from the plant , often a bamboo stem, the aphid tapped into before having a fungal infection. The aphid turns basically into a straw for the Ascopolyporus. - A tiny, agaric with a top attached stipe growing from a dead plant stem
- Same Deconica sp. with interesting speckled stipes growing in Chivor forest above Sta Maria.
- Hygrocybe waxgill seen in Chivor forest
- Deconica sp. with gorgeous striations on the cap growing in Chivor.
- close up of the gills of Deconica sp. seen in Chivor forest
- What cool colors! This Gliophyllus sp. - waxgill is probably still undescribed; seen in Chivor
- Chlorophyllum molybdites ? with 10cm scale. Note the bright reddish stain near the stem base. Found near Macanal
- Chlorophyllum molybdites annulus and gills - note the greenish hue in the gills from the green spores, near Macanal
- possibly Chlorophyllum molybdites seen along the highway near Macanal
- possibly an Amauroderma cap, seen on the Cascadas de La Tebaida path near Yopal