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Helminthosphaeria
It’s Mushroom Monday, and this week you get two fungi for the price of one! This smoky-looking individual is a White Coral Fungus (Clavulina coralloides) being infected by the parasitic Helminthosphaeria clavariarum fungus. Unlike typical cap-and-stem mushrooms, Coral Fungi are club-shaped or branched, and many resemble their namesake marine invertebrates. Coral Fungi can be white, black, or brightly coloured (such as the Violet Coral I showed you earlier this fall), but no
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