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Some nice examples of woolly bird's-nest and split-gill #fungi in the #garden #today 💚

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Several tiny and extremely adorable woolly bird's-nest fungi (Nidula spp.) growing on a decaying wooden board.

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A dapper Barometer Earthstar [Astraeus hygrometricus] found smack in the middle of an old lumbering road.

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Earthstars look like a ping-pong ball sitting atop opened flower petals. In this case, the sac is a speckled white and gray, and the 6 “petals” are a cracked looking black and white. The mushroom is popping up amongst large rocks and fallen leaves.

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The intricate undersides of Trichaptum biforme on a fallen birch.

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About a dozen in-focus undersides of small bracket mushrooms growing out of a fallen white birch log. Each mushroom is a ½ circle with brown, frilly (due to winter conditions) edges. The rest of the mushrooms are tan and feature tiny protrusions.

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These wonderful little Q-tip sprouty things are Swamp Beacon [Mitrula elegans] mushrooms, and up until yesterday I had never found one. In fact they aren’t listed in many of my guides or fungi websites I visit. They mostly grow on fallen conifer needles IN BOGS… so you can see why they don’t get a lot of press!

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Closeup of 4 inch water and muck in a bog. Growing up out of a bog are 7 mushrooms that look like matchsticks or Q-tips. The base are dirty white sticks with a bright yellow-orange blob on the top. Each is about 2 inches high. The top of the bog has a glass or ice appearance with dark mounds where the mushrooms come up.

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A couple of fly agarics (Amanita Muscaria) growing among blueberry shrubs

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A bright red capped mushroom in the foreground to the left, dotted with white dots, on a thick white ringed stem. A second one is visible in the blurry background. The mushrooms are surrounded by the small little green leaves of blueberry shrubs, near other smaller plants.

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A colony of unknown mushrooms grows on a hollow log transformed into a spring fountain in the German Black Forest

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A hollow log was put horizontally as a spout for a natural spring in the forest, the water cascades out of it in a thin drizzle. The log is covered with a colony of brown-gold colored mushrooms with a flat cap. On both sides of the spring, the ground is covered in lush vegetation

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1y

Some mushrooms are hard to spot.

Not this one.

Hemlock Varnish [Ganoderma tsugae]

(And notice how the mushroom just grew around the branch that was in its personal space.)

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Top down view of a frisbee-sized shelf mushroom growing out of an embankment. It is bright! Colors ranging from cream on the outer edge to yellow, then orange, then red, to blood red at its attachment point, light up the drab forest floor of tan leaves. Toward the center of the mushroom a hemlock branch can be see apparently piercing the mushroom with a 1-inch gash. Most likely this was a case of the mushroom growing out and enveloping the branch and reconnecting on the other side.

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Common names for this mushroom include “Apricot Jelly” and “Salmon Salad,” but I always think of those wax bottle candies and those ridiculous wax candy lips I had as a kid.

[Guepinia helvelloides]

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Top down view of a light orange, salmon colored mushroom. It resembles a squished shamrock in that it has three wavy heart-shaped (though that’s a real stretch) lobes spreading out. In its center is a powdery white tube that acts as a stem. The entire mushroom is approximately 3 1/2 inches across. The mushroom is on the forest floor with nearby leaves and pine needles.

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This is one of my favorite mushrooms because, well, just look!

It has a few drab, unsuitable, booooring common names like “Easter Caesar’s Amanita” and “American Slender Caesar” but I always think of it as a Tequila Sunrise.

[Amanita jacksonii]

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Closeup of a brightly colored mushroom coming up from the forest floor. It’s is about 2 inches high and 3 inches wide. The cap, which is nearly flat is bright red at the umbo (dimple in the middle) and bleeds into orange, then yellow at the edges. It’s a gilled mushroom and you can see the underside gills poking through to the top at the edges.

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Closeup of what appears to be a bright red egg growing out of a white, cobwebby sheath on the forest floor. This is common with many Amanita mushrooms that start in an egg-like, button stage and then grow into their classic umbrella pose.

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Looking down on 4 brightly colored mushroom coming up from the forest floor. They are about 2 inches high and 3 inches wide. The caps, which are nearly flat are bright red at the umbo (dimple in the middle) and bleeds into orange, then yellow at the edges. The underside gills are poking through to the top at the edges. There are 2 mushrooms on the left, bumping up on each other with one of the caps now just a semi circle. The 2 mushrooms in the right are positioned so that one cap is nearly encompassing the other.

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There's an ethereal mushroom in there amongst the bokeh and dewdrops.
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Ground level view on a hazy morning, with the low sun visible but pale through some trees, and blades of grass dotted with dew, and a single mushroom. It has a long thin stem and an umbrella-like flat top. The gills are translucent. It looks like a pleated gray silk skirt.

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Common names for the same mushroom can run the gamut from alarmist to mundane.

Is this a:
A. Common Earthball 💤 😑
B. Pigskin Poison Puffball!!!!!! 🙀☠️

Yes.
[Scleroderma citrinum]

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A somewhat round, leathery mushroom that sort of resembles a potato is in a large expanse of bright green moss. The earthball is tan with cracked markings and has a nickel sized tear on its top exposing the inside black spores of the fungus.

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I found this wonderful little patch of Painted Boletes. But one looks… well, a bit different.

The one that resembles a powdered donut is also a Painted Bolete but has been parasitized by Hypomyces completus, a white, grainy fungus.

Painted Bolete [Suillus spraguei]

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Top down view of nine mushrooms coming up out of the leaf litter and forest floor. The angle is straight down so each mushroom is only showing off its cap. Eight of the mushroom caps are red and look like they are splitting or cracking, showing off a yellowish secondary color. The final mushroom cap has a white powdery film on the entire cap making it look like a white powdered donut. There are also small green sprout and ferns alongside the mushrooms.

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A perfect day for hiking and the woods offered up this bright bouquet of Honey Mushrooms.

Ringless Honey Mushrooms
[Armillaria tabescens]

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Approximately 16 mushrooms growing up from a central spot in the moss. All the mushrooms are fresh and have bright yellow stubby caps with whitish thick stems. The stems also have jagged flaky pieces covering them. There is a tree stump behind them covered with moss and lichen.

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Looking up at a mushroom growing on a hill. The hill is brown dirt to the bottom and right of the photo, and the top and left are green forest. The mushroom has a thick beige cap, with the gills seemingly traced by the dirt that they grew out of. The stem is also seemingly covered in dark clods of dirt

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A mushroom growing on dead wood. There's no stem visible, it's just a round oval ball. Yellow, and textured like old popcorn ceilings.

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Colour photograph of a small purple fungus on a very thin stem growing out of a dark, almost black piece of wood. All sorts of mosses from small to tall grow around it. Some reach up to the mushroom's cap. The background is blurred by the shallow depth of field, creating coloured circles in a variety of colours from green to pink, acorn and deep purple.

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You never know when you’re going to stumble into a Sarlacc pit… I mean, stumble upon a mushroom you’ve never found before.

Here’s Turbinellus kauffmanii (likely a species complex). No common name. But really, Sarlacc pit should be considered, right?

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Top down view of a palm-sized mushroom cap that is tan, white and brown with a funnel structure that means there is a dark hole going downward in the center of the cap. Bordering the hole are jagged, toothy growths that give the mushroom cap a maw-like appearance. Similar to the Sarlacc pit in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. You know, the thing that belches after swallowing Boba Fett.

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Two funnel shaped mushrooms coming up from the forest floor. They are about four inches high, several inches wide, and are four inches apart from each other. The “stem” or underside of the mushroom is a wrinkled cream color texture. The inner part of the mushroom can be seen at the top, or opening is spotted with giraffe colors - tan and brown.

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Wax Caps showing off their Halloween colors. Wax o’lanterns?

Honey Waxcaps
[Hygrocybe reidii]
Probably

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Ground level view of a small embankment of bright green moss growing in the forest floor with dried leaves in the foreground. Poking out of various spots in the moss are 7 bright orange/yellow mushrooms. They are umbrella shaped with bright caps with a slightly more pale border. The stems are mostly the same size as the borders and their bottoms disappear into the wall of moss at varying angles. One of the mushrooms has aged to the point that its cap is exposing the gills on its underside.

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With the poison ivy leaves out of the way, I was able to get back to the Varnish Shelf mushrooms to log a final photo of this year’s life cycle.

Varnish Shelf [Ganoderma Tsugae]
Pic 1: November 13, 2024
Pic 2: June 7, 2024
Pic 3: May 29, 2024
Pic 4: May 20, 2024

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This photo was taken 5 ½ months after the initial photo in this series. It shows the trunk of a hemlock tree with 6 plate like mushrooms growing out of the bark, some at eye level, some knee and ankle level. They are dark maroon and tan, cracked and slightly droopy, their attachment points weakened on the tree. At the base of the tree are autumn leaves and bright green moss.

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A dapper Common Earthball. Or as it likes to be called around Halloween, a Pigskin Poison Puffball [Scleroderma citrinum]

Much more intimidating. 😄

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A rotting tree stump is in the woods, the ground covered with green winding plants and fallen leaves. Growing out of a panel of sheared off bark is a yellowish tan oval mushroom. It is about two inches high and is covered in brown wartlike attachments to its outer skin.

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The way this family leans is quite expressive. What was said to have them all on pins and needles? (pines and needles? ;) )

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Five small mushrooms clustered together. Their caps have radial lines from the gills showing through, and the gills are visible. Beneath them is a conifer sprig on the mossy ground. The light is soft and indistinct, and glows through the mushroom caps.

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Late afternoon Friday dog walk and spotted what looked like the yellow of dying moss on a log deep in the woods. “Wonder what's killing it?” I thought, walking by. Curiosity won out, I scrabbled through the brush and found the truth.
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A moss covered log with a couple large section “yellowed” but not from dying moss, but from a very large patch of tiny mushrooms covering everything. Maybe Cross-veined Troop Mushroom

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Closeup on the mushrooms all springing otu of the dark log below, their tan/yellow stalks leading into well spaced gills and then slightly upturned tops.

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