More colorful mushrooms
Fungi continue to be conspicuously abundant, while the gastropods remain scarce and hidden. The previous set of recent mushrooms pictures were here. Here is another colorful crop I photographed in Cunningham Falls State Park near Frederick, Maryland last Monday.
We start off with a cluster of orange ones that were on a snag.
This relatively small yellow mushroom was coming out of a clump of moss.
Here is a red one.
This big mama was one of the largest ones I saw. Let my hand be the scale.
Finally, a deviation from the familiar morphology. This one looked more like a sponge or a coral formation one would expect to see under the sea than a fungus in the woods.
If this trend continues, there may be more mushroom pictures in the near future.
3 comments:
very cool mushroom pictures!!!!
Harder ones, today, hm. The orange ones are jack-o'lantern mushrooms (Omphalotus illudens)--my most common poisoning call here in central New York state because people mistake them for chanterelles. Below that, a string of boletes. At the very bottom, I think this is Tremellodendron, which looks like a coral mushroom but is a jelly fungus. See how quickly I skipped over those boletes? I would need more info to figure out what they are--pore surface, maybe a spore print, a better view of the stalks... there are a lot of boletes.
The ones we saw in Kastamonu were bigger, no?
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