Fungi Friday - Blewits

Here are a few of this week's finds for #fungifriday by @ewkaw

I finally found an area where wood blewits grow around here. Usually I would have to travel far north to see them but I found a little spruce plot where they seemed to be growing in abundance.

As you can see they are kind of brownish from the top but when they are still small and pinning they have quite a purple color to the cap and gills.

I only like the harvest wood blewits when they are still in the purple phase. Once they get older they kind of turn white and can be confused with other Clitocybe family mushrooms that can cause stomach aches.

Quite a few were growing in one area all different shapes and sizes along with some smaller LBMs aka little brown mushrooms, probably a mower mushroom of some kind.

You can barely see the hint of purple around the edges that has faded away mostly on these older ones. The crazy shapes of them are the result of too much rain and not enough airflow.

They were forming half a fairy ring. Maybe next year around this time I'll look in this area earlier to see if I can see them when they are all purple.

As fall is stretching on, most of the other mushrooms like these mycenas are starting to dry out.

This poor log was filled with dried out mycenas.

Here are some wolf's milk slime mold nodules. You can pinch them and orange goo will pop out.

By chance I accidentally caught this chocolate tube slime mold in the background of my mycena shots. Very tiny and easy to overlook. It grows in tube form then dries out into a hair like substance that breaks easily and turns to dust to spread the spores around.