365 Urban species: The mistakes.

[urbpan]

I made at least four mistakes that I know of, in the course of the project. Not typos (good god there are probably a few of those lurking about) but identification errors and one error of omission. These I would like to fix, for the sake of having the project feel more finished, and in case I publish it in some form or another. I'm letting you all know, because I feel like I should, basically, but also to let the people who caught the misidentifications know that I'm not ignoring them out of spite. Also, if you are seriously nerdy, you could try to work out what the problem with my identification was, and what the proper identification should be. Also, if you caught a mistake earlier, but didn't want to embarrass me by pointing it out, now's the time to go ahead and shame me. I can take it--perhaps I'll learn something.

The ones I know about:

#170: Vetch
#286: Chondrostereum purpureum
#359: American Holly
(The error of omission. I photographed only European holly, mistaking one variety for American holly.)
#364: Boxwood

I'll let you know when these are fixed!

Comments

[candent.livejournal.com]

Jef, you rock.

[ozreison.livejournal.com]

I look forward to the correction on Vetch. Her ein Ontario, Canada, there are stretches long highways and roads that are labelled "Crown Vetch - Do Not Cut or Spray". I've always wondered what vetch is. Although given that you've tagged it as an error, I'm guessing it's not the pretty purple plant in your photos.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Yes, vetch is that pretty purple flower--I just misidentified the species, the genus is correct.

[ndozo.livejournal.com]

I can't offer any help on id'ing anything, but if you ever do want to publish this I'd volunteer to copyedit it for you. It's what I do.

witch's butter identification

[(Anonymous)]

Because I think this is an amazing project, I wanted to help you by doing some doublechecking on those species I know well. I am fairly sure I have one correction for you: your Witch's Butter (Tremella mesenterica) looks to me like Dacrymyces palmatus. Although the two species look very much alike, D palmatus looks more like a knobby, tightly convoluted brain, and T mesenterica looks more like a bunched-up ribbon, with broad sweeping curves on the free side of the ribbon. The difference may be hard to see if you don't know both species, but here's the clincher: your fungus appears to be growing on a conifer (spruce? hemlock?). D palmatus only grows on conifers and T mesenterica only grows on hardwoods.
-Peter Woods in Chinle AZ

Re: witch's butter identification

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Good call! I think on my witch's butter entry, the first picture may be Dacrymyces on large white pine stump, but all the other pictures are Tremella on hardwoods.