novapatch's Identifications

365nm uv light

There is a Sweetgum pod buried under the cloud of dirt.

Found beneath sweet gum, growing from fruit

Growing on a decaying Sweet Gum fruit.

Ascocarp growing on sweetgum pod. Mature forest with beech, oak, maple, tupelo, birch, hornbeam, sweetgum, nut tree and scattered conifers.

these were everywhere

Mature forest: beech, tulip poplar, sweetgum, maple and sycamore.