Mushroom Monday - Lots of UFOs
Here are quite a few unidentified fungal organisms for this #mushroommonday
This is some kind of earth fan fungi.
The closest thing I found that looks like it is Thelephora palmata aka stinking earth fan. But they tend to have more brown in them. So this is probably a variant of that.
Here are some LBMs aka little brown mushrooms.
I first thought they might be a type of mycena but these were growing out of the ground and not the wood. They also have a different gill pattern so for now they remain unidentified LBMs.
Here is a ramaria species generally called coral fungi. I suspect this might be Ramaria stricta but there are so many species that look like it so its ID is hazy for now.
Now for some oddly shaped white mushrooms.
I flipped one over and saw symmetrical almost pink gills. I was unable to find what it was, still another UFO.
Here is a strange orangy mushroom with a divet in the cap.
Here is what the gills look like. The top resembled a rooting polypore but these gills ruin that ID so it is an orange UFO for now. Most identification guides just look at the big easy fungi rather than these obscure ones. Hopefully I can dig out the IDs on some forums.
That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)
Isn't it wonderful to be out in the forest with so many mushrooms? I was out for a little walk yesterday and found 3-4 liters of chanterelles and a lot of Karl Johan mushrooms (Boletus edulis), I'm drying them!
...and mosquitos... 😂
4 liters of chanterelles is a-ma-zing trophey!
I usually say that chanterelles thrive among people, it's just around here on small paths in our little forest. I love autumn, you get a lot of food for free in the forest right now!
late summer / indian summer is my fave season! harvesting time, all nature cycle comes to a fruitful end, it is warm and mild and soft. how cant it be the best season of all?
I agree 100%
Chanterelles are great dried. I wish I had your boletes in my forests, instead I get skinny stemmed ones that are mostly toxic or bitter lol. I guess the bitter ones can be pickled to remove bitterness but I can never find enough to pickle.
Boletus edulis you have to go to mixed forest or pure coniferous forest to find them!
That is a problem my elevation is a bit too low for many coniferous trees.
Wow, this fan coral really looks like a sea coral. Pleasure for the eyes. Lovely walk. ☘️
Its common name is stinking earthfan but I didn't notice it smelling bad, maybe people just call it that because it is hard to uproot out of the garden and they get mad about the "stinking" earth fan in their garden lol.
That would be a scary outcome for a trip to the doctor 😆
Things are drying out here right now so not much fungi action. A swampy area we walk by everyday and kind of use a measure is all the way dried out. No water there at all.
Womp, its that bad time of the year without rain for fungi. Maybe an indoor oyster kit would solve your lack of fungi. This winter I definitely want to get lots of lions mane kits growing.