3:00 snapshot #808

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Here the dogs somewhat impatiently pose for yet another snapshot, on the "Bold Knob Trail" in the Stonybrook Reservation. They are impatient partly because of the mosquitoes, but mostly because of the thunder. They think I must be a bold knob indeed to be stopping for a picture while lightning could strike at any second.



It's a pity I couldn't linger there, because the woods were full of mushrooms--like everywhere else this summer into fall. I stopped for this one because I'd never seen it before. This is one case where it makes more sense to use the common name than the scientific name. Not just because "golden spindles" is a nice name, but because the guides agree on that, while variously using the scientific names Clavulinopsis laeticolor, Clavaria pulchra, Clavulinopsis pulchra, and Ramariopsis laeticolor.

EDITED TO ADD: Mycologist Noah Siegel says that it's Clavulinopsis fusiformis, meaning my initial identification was incorrect.