Photo 1, at right: A cluster of Jack O’ Lantern mushrooms at the base of an otherwise healthy white oak. The fungus appears in late summer through the fall. Unless otherwise noted, photos courtesy of the author. Several mushroom species [...]

Photo 1: In order for sexual reproduction to occur in the Basidomycota decay fungi, a tree must be infected twice by basidiospores. Sexual reproduction results in the formation of conks, mushrooms or brackets that produce spores for further dispersal and [...]