Fun With Fungi

Mushroom thread!

Post your mushrooms, and we'll all try to identify them!

Panaeolus (Cracked Mottle Gill)

Sprouted on my newly cultivated raised bed. :)

These remind me of freshly baked snickerdoodles: it looks like they have cinnamon on their cracked tops!

One more for now, I need to get to work!


Chlorophyllum (False Parasol)

Leucoagaricus

This one popped up on my front lawn in Maryland this past week after a particularly heavy rain.

Makes me think of an album cover by the group Boston...

Some guesses based on Marieka Gryzenhout's guide to mushrooms of southern Africa (bad touchstone removed) -- the species will differ but the genus names may be close:
#2: Panaeolus (Cracked Mottle Gill)
#4 Chlorophyllum (False Parasol) -- CAUTION! Marieka says this is poisonous!
#5 Leucoagaricus (not the one in Marieka's book; more like one I was once shown in Netherlands)

>7 hfglen:

Cool! Thanks!

This is what the young'un of Mushroom #5 looks like:


immature Leucoagaricus

We have these hard, baseball/softball sized growths in the yard. I was told that they are a type of fungi:





They are firmly entrenched, and kicking with my foot does not dislodge them.

What are they, anyone know?

Here's a couple more shots of the fungi in my front yard:




side view, no stem

My daughter has developed the eye and found some really coool fungi Saturday, between rainstorms.



I'm impressed by my close-up feature:



The brown timpani-drum shaped species gave off spores in a tiny genie-cloud if you rubbed the inside with a fingertip.

Makes me think of baby birds with their beaks open for food!

We have had the wettest summer in living memory and have set some rainfall records. This is mid-Atlantic area where typically we're humid, but it usually stops raining by June, except for an occasional hurricane. This year it poured from the beginning of May and finally tapered off mid-August. As a result we've had some heinously bizarre mushrooms spring up in unlikely places that look unlike anything anyone who lives here has ever seen before. I'll try to post some picks later.

I'd love to see your fun(gi) pictures! :)

Unfortunately, my camera battery was dead and by the time I got the battery charged up the next day they had withered. Some were horrible, distorted looking black toadstools, very warty. The others were pale white, fairly large with a small cap, sort of flopped over on the ground. They were distinctly *ahem* phallic looking.

In trying to identify them I came across this cool site from Duke University. None of these look like my mushrooms either. http://biology.duke.edu/fungi/

And another online guide:

http://www.fs.fed.us/nrs/pubs/gtr/gtr_nrs79.pdf

From last week:



>17 2wonderY: according to the guide you linked to, this is probably Artist’s Conk (Ganoderma applanatum)

the fungus among us

I will be posting several interesting varieties.

>21 2wonderY: It is most likely Coprinus comatus, the Shaggy Mane. Grows well in manure compost piles, which is where I found it.

I found the identity in a book I borrowed that is way beyond my interest level - The Mushroom Cultivator. I'm recording the book in my library only so I can recommend it to a friend if she hasn't seen it yet.

Good to see this thread resurrected!

I have a few new specimens to share, from our visit to the Delaware Water Gap last week. I will try to get them posted by this weekend.

Sadly, the we host for all my old pictures doesn’t work anymore.

I read an interesting fact on Instagram and confirmed it with Google. Ain’t the internet grand?

Mushrooms Thrive And Multiply When Lightning Strikes Nearby

https://www.intelligentliving.co/mushrooms-thrive-lightning

Researchers are exploring ways to reproduce the effect.

My dad used to pound an iron rod into the backyard and electrify it to collect earthworms. I’m going to encourage daughter and SIL to try this on their farm.

>27 2wonderY: I ran out of room and had to delete some of my photos here on LT: the photo gallery is my host for fungi and bird and butterfly pictures.

Tiger's Eye (coltricia perinnis)? Southeastern NC, river levee

The colors are much deeper and more brilliant than my phone could catch.

>29 LizzieD: ooh, nice!