fruiting body – סלומה

Mutinus elegans.
Single fruit body in leaf litter under oaks and mixed hardwood. Odor
detectable, but not overwhelming at all from behind camera.

Slime mold on mushroom
Tiny fruiting bodies (sporocarps) of the cosmopolitan slime mold Cribraria, maybe Cribraria intricata (Cribrariaceae), growing on the cap of an unidentified mushroom. There’s also Ceratiomyxa slime mold below the fungus.

References: [1] – [2] Photo: ©Kim Fleming Locality: unknown

Fistula hepatica.

Black earth tongues (Trichoglossum hirsutum). Trichoglossum hirsutum makes a black club shaped fungus 3 – 8 cm
high. The spores are produced on the enlarged upper part, which is 5 to
8 mm wide, up to 2 cm high, flattened, spearhead-shaped to ellipsoid and
finely velvety. The flesh is thin, tough and brownish. The stem is up
to 6 cm long and 2 – 3 mm thick, cylindrical and velvety.