Classification: Maybe Stereum hirsutum Phylum Basidiomycota Class Agaricomycetes Order  Russulales Family Stereaceae Isolation and culturing methods: This fruiting body was collected on April 15th at Dale’s Ridge Trail in Lewisburg, PA, It was on a fallen trunk, in clusters. It was placed in a paper bag and brought back to the lab to further analyze and identify. Culture appearance and growth Many caps are fused together. The cap is not that thick or big. The fungi vary in sizes. The cap is a fan shape. The texture is velvety and the cap is zonate. It ranges in color from grey to orange. […]

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Classification: Phylum Basidiomycota Class Agaricomycetes Order Polyorales Family Polyporaceae Isolation and culturing methods: This fruiting body was collected on April 2nd in Turtle Creek Park in Lewisburg, PA. It was collected from the ground under a fallen branch. It was placed in a paper bag and brought back to the lab to further analyze and identify. Culture appearance and growth The cap is large, around 6 cm at the larest diameter. The cap is irregularly oval shaped. It is very thin and easy to break. However, the cap is sticky corky. The hymenium is pored and dark brown. The cap also gens brown possibly […]

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Classification: Phylum Basidiomycota Class Agaricomycetes Order Agaricales Family Tricholomataceae Isolation and culturing methods: This fruiting body was collected on April 15th at Dale’s Ridge Trail in Lewisburg, PA. It was collected from a branch that had fallen (shown in image). It was placed in a paper bag and brought back to the lab to further analyze and identify. Culture appearance and growth The fungus is a crust fungus. It is really small, its diameter is around .5 cm. It has hymenium is gilled. The fungi are fan shaped and slightly overlap each other. They seemed to have been flattened down during collection.

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Classification: Phylum Basidiomycota Class Agaricomycetes Order Polyporales Family Polyporaceae Isolation and culturing methods: This fruiting body was collected on April 15th at Dale’s Ridge Trail in Lewisburg, PA. It was collected from a branch that had fallen. It was placed in a paper bag and brought back to the lab to further analyze and identify. Culture appearance and growth Many caps are fused together. The cap is not that thick or big. Around 3 cm across. The cap shape varies but takes on a bracket, semicircular shape. It has a hairy / velvety texture. The cap is zonate, alternating between […]

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Classification: Phylum Basidiomycota Class Agaricomycetes Order Hymenochaetales Family Hymenochaetaceae Isolation and culturing methods: This fruiting body was collected on April 2n2  in Turtle Creek Park in Lewisburg, PA. It was collected from a tree trunk and it was pretty high up. It was placed in a paper bag and brought back to the lab to further analyze and identify. Culture appearance and growth The cap is very large, around 12 cm in diameter. It is corky and tough. The cap actually feels very woody. Because it is thick, it is hard to break or even bend. The hymenium is light […]

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Classification: Phylum Basidiomycota Class Agaricomycetes Order Polyporales Family Polyporaceae Isolation and culturing methods: This fruiting body was collected on April 15th at Dale’s Ridge Trail in Lewisburg, PA. It was collected from a branch that had fallen. It was placed in a paper bag and brought back to the lab to further analyze and identify.   Culture appearance and growth This mushroom has a semicircular cap. This cap has a velvety texture and has zonate zones ranging from a cream color to a gray color. The texture seems to alternate through zones. The cap feels tough and corky and hard […]

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Possible ID: Uknown   Isolation and culturing methods: This fruiting body was collected on April 2nd in Turtle Creek Park in Lewisburg, PA. It was collected from a branch that had fallen. It was placed in a paper bag and brought back to the lab to further analyze and identify.   Culture appearance and growth It has a plane pileus shape and it has entire pileus margin. It has a glabrous pileus texture. The lamellae attachment is andante. It is a shelf fungus which does not have a stipe The hymenium is pored. Additionally, it is white and thick; it […]

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Possible ID: Cladosporium   Classification: Phylum Ascomycota Class Dothideomycete Order Canodiales Family Davidiellacaeae   Isolation and culturing methods: Isolated from an agar plate that was placed near a vent in the Rooke Science at Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA). This plate was used when we were collecting spores to differentiate from ecosystems inside and outside the lab.  Plates were incubated at 20 degrees Celsius for a week or more. Then, a small volume of hyphae was excised for the agar and transferred to achieve a pure culture.   Culture appearance and growth Before the was pure cultured, it formed one large […]

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Possible ID:  Trichothecium   Classification: Phylum Acscomycota Class Sordariomycete Order Hypocreales Family Incertae sedis   Isolation and culturing methods: Isolated from an agar plate that was used for a prior lab and was labled “TriB.” However, because it was not pure, Trichothecium grew on it. A small volume of hyphae of this was excised for the agar and transferred to achieve a pure culture.   Culture appearance and growth The culture looked pink/rosy with white hyphae growing out of it. The hyphae are around 4-5 micrometers wide.   Spore production The spores are enclosed in conidiospores around 12 microns long […]

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Possible ID: Podospora   Classification: Phylum Ascomycota Class Sordariomycete Order Sordariales Family Lasiosphaericae   Isolation and culturing methods: Isolated from a soil sample that was taken from the soil right outside of the ELC at Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA). The soil sample was serially diluted by water and then plated on an agar plate. The plate was untouched for a week and then a small amount of hyphae was taken and put on a smaller agar plate to obtain a pure culture. This extraction of hyphae was done twice to reassure that it was a pure culture and was free […]

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