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Last night,
in a span of twenty minutes,
we received 3.9 inches of rain.

The little creek,
behind our house,
rose more than 5 feet,
and amidst an hour of roaring,
piled a huge gravel bar
just downstream a sharp bend.

Too,
the floodplain was stripped of last autumn's leaves.
The edge of the flood marked by an emphatic line,
of bare soil,
to which clung plants that survived the deluge.

Ecoregion: Southern Outer Piedmont
Habitat: Growing in soil among hardwood trees
Substrate: Soil
Nearest Tree: Hardwood, Quercus sp
Habit: Many
Fruitbody: Emerging from whitish ‘eggs,’ ca. 3-4 cm diameter. Mature fruitbody has a stem up to 7-8 cm tall, ca. 2-3 cm diameter; radially wrinkled; volva present; light pink. Cap flat with 7 arms ca 5 cm long; each forking into two tips; center covered with brown slime; deep pink, color deepening with age.
Odor: Not particularly malodorous despite growing in sunlight.
Spores: Brown
Collection #: BCC-2020106-01

In moss. Ascomata dull orange, urn-shaped, sessile; margins dentate.

Asci 240 x 10 µm. Lower part of ascus IKI+ dark red. Paraphyses filiform, septate, IKI+ greenish. Ascospores ellipsoid, hyaline, 14-17 x 7.5-9 µm.

Near Psathyrella.