Lots of cage, lattice #fungi opening at the moment in Marin. I find these fascinating.
#mushtodon
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A dapper Barometer Earthstar [Astraeus hygrometricus] found smack in the middle of an old lumbering road.
#FungiFriday #fungi #mushroom #pilz #nature #Mushtodon #hiking
The intricate undersides of Trichaptum biforme on a fallen birch.
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!
Another nine days. You can see the mushrooms flattening slightly and getting dramatically darker.
Varnish Shelf [Ganoderma Tsugae]
Pic 1: June 7, 2024
Pic 2: May 29, 2024
Pic 3: May 20, 2024
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.)
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]
Black Trumpet mushrooms are up!!
Though that one in the back looks more like a French horn. 😁
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]
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]
Oh, hello there.
#mushrooms #mushtodon #hiking
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]
I gasped when I saw this
#mushtodon #fungiverse #sporespondence #mushrooms #mosstodon
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]
A perfect day for hiking and the woods offered up this bright bouquet of Honey Mushrooms.
Ringless Honey Mushrooms
[Armillaria tabescens]
It’s pretty. And poisonous.
It’s pretty poisonous.
Eastern Destroying Angel
[Amanita bisporigera]
It’s MEGA Mushroom Monday!
American Parasol
[Leucoagaricus americanus]