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1y

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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1y

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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359d

This is the kind of summer where I feel like I’m constantly looking down to see the massive variety of shapes and colors of the fungi that is popping up.

Violet Cort [Cortinarius iodes]

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A mushroom about three inches tall grows from leaf litter on the forest floor. It is a classic umbrella shape mushroom with a small purple and tan on its cap. The rest of the cap is a soft lavender. It is perfectly round. The stem is harder to see but shares the same colors as the stem.

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359d

I gasped when I saw this

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the exposed roots of a large maple tree on the side of a stream bank. Water can be seen under the roots. Several large orange mushrooms are blossoming out of the roots.

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330d

Waxcaps are tiny bursts of color you often see at this time of the year. Red, yellow, green, gray, purple… but it’s the orange ones I most enjoy. Especially when in a mound of lush moss.

They can be a bear to ID as many species have a large range of color over their short lifespans. Field guides often differ in the colors they depict.

I’m happy just to see them on my hikes.

Honey Waxcap
[Hygrocybe reidii]
Maybe

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Sitting on a bright green mound of moss is an out of focus pinecone with its open end angled toward the camera, and a small mushroom. The mushroom is about 1.5 inches high with an orange waxy looking stem and a reddish orange waxy looking cap. In the background are various low woody shrubs and leafed trees.

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334d

It’s MEGA Mushroom Monday!

American Parasol
[Leucoagaricus americanus]

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Top down view of three large mushroom caps and a person’s outstretched hand alongside them to show how large they are. The mushrooms vary in size from 4-7 inches across. And they overlap each other. They are light tan with a brown umbo (protrusion) in the center. Each has flecks on the top which circle the umbo.

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274d

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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259d

Indoor farming. Oyster mushrooms grown in coffee grounds #urbanfarming #mushrooms #mushtodon

A twisted mass of long stemmed mushrooms growing out of a bag on a windowsill.

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53d

It was 4° cooler in the woods, but we were biking uphill which is great for warming up in the winter, no so much in this weather.
I stopped to take photos of slime molds and mushrooms often enough to keep cool.
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Chocolate tube slime mold in full “bloom”. These are dinky 10mm/0.5” tall, if that.

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49d

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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