Fungi Appreciation Thread!

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I saw a couple of little puffballs emerging today on a lawn that had just been watered. The mushroom season will be comeing soon.

The fall mushroom season has arrived!

Some lovely orange Amanitas sprouted across the street today. Not my picture, but this is what they look like.

Clathrus archeri.

Is that your picture?

Why yes, it is a picture of me!

What is fruiting in my woods; I apologize for the poor quality of the photos, I only have an iphone camera. If you google the names, you will find better pictures should you be interested.

When I was studying fungi, all the polypores were still mainly in Polyporus. That genus has now been balkanized. I knew this as Polyporus cinnabarinus. It is growing on mature live oak branches downed last year in Hurricane Irma. Third from the left is turned upside down (pore side up.)



Here is a slime mold in its fruiting or "plant" stage. These are orange globules on tiny white stalks, which can best be seen near the bottom of the photo. Much better photos on google. Not sure I can even get this one to genus. Might be Trichia. Growing on dog poop.

That's a lovely polypore. I think I may have seen old decayed specimens of that, but no fresh ones.

Here's another image from Google:

Fairly common this year, one year after Hurricane Irma decimated our woods. I do mean decimated. We probably lost around 10% of our trees. Some of the most beautiful old oaks.

Anyway, the other polypore which seems to have done very well in the aftermath of Irma is the following buff colored polypore. I thought perhaps it was Barkley's Polypore, but the growth habit is not right, per wikipedia images and it is fruiting all over the downed oaks, not at the base of live oaks. Does anyone have any other ideas?



I don't know if including lichens is okay, but here is a very common one on trees in the south. It is variously called the Red and Green Lichen and or Christmas Lichen. You can't miss it. Here growing on oak.

I love fungi, particularly edible mushrooms. Delicious in everything.

Especially Maitake, Eringi, Enoki, and Shiitake.

Darmok!! or someone who really knows mycology.



This looks like a Pleurotus, it smells like a Pleurotus, it tastes like a Pleurotus, but I don't know of one with veil remnants on the cap like this one has. Growing on oak in south Florida.

I'm definitely not a real mycologist! Perhaps you have discovered a new species?

Oh, darn! Somehow I got that impression. Oh, well. I still appreciate your contributions.

I am often mistaken for a mycologist — I think because of my decayed, moldy aspect.

Getting my threads crossed again.

Well blow me down! I thought you were more a psylobicin user Darmok but I'm impressed