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Taken 4 March 2025 at 16:42 Eastern Standard Time, in the alley behind my apartment complex in full daylight. The adjacent utility pole (a sliver of the line is visible in the upper left corner) is probably the reason the tree was felled.

This one is a study in complex crunchy textures and value and hue variations of grey and gray. (Though extremely muted, it’s not achromatic, being mottled with the faintest tinges of yellow, brown, and green:

Current Music: ”The Beauty of Gray”-Live.

blackcatofmisery

I'm hoping for some confirmation and/or information on this dude that's growing in my yard again. A tree used to be where it grows, but the tree never had visible fungi on it. When I did a Google search, other users shared similar photos that were said to be some kind of granadula.

( A bit of a close-up. )

Current Mood: confused
Current Music: United States Marine Band - The President's Own

blackcatofmisery

_{I just think mushrooms are neat and have others I've found recently that I will eventually share.}

Recently, I discovered what I believe are puffballs in my front yard! I've never seen any alive before, so I'm relying on Google. The mystery comes from the brown one. (It is the same mushroom as the first photo, where it is obviously paler.) It didn't used to be brown, but there is a brown umber puffball.

One of the white ones is still white, so it could be a common puffball or a peeling one. Peeling would make sense, if that little bit in my hand (the only bit I found) is from the mushroom and not its own decaying corpse. The bit was near the now-brown puffball, though.

I'm really not sure, though. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠༼⁠ ⁠•́⁠ ͜⁠ʖ⁠ ⁠•̀⁠ ⁠༽⁠_⁠/⁠¯ Any aspiring mycologists have like a list of criteria to determine a species?

Current Mood: awake
Current Music: The Cramps - Garbageman

sylvaine

Regular old forest mushrooms growing in the hollow of a tree on the roadside.

Look at those Regular Ol' Forest Mushrooms just growing out of a tree hollow! Found last year - must have been in August? so actually quite a while ago - on my way to work.

turlough

We've had quite a warm and dry start to the autumn here in souther Sweden so I haven't seen as much fungi as usual. Still, there are always some of them around and here are a few photos of them.

This is a small Orange Birch Bolete (Leccinum versipelle).
Click to enlarge:

( more fungi... )

Current Mood: relaxed

ahundredindecisions

Today was one of those days where spring just grabbed me by the shoulders and shook me, saying ISN'T THIS GLORIOUS?! So I took a bunch of pictures.

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spiralsheep

In December I went for a walk on the Malvern Hills and spotted a midwinter fungus, probably a Clitocybe.

6 Midwinter fungus, probably a Clitocybe, Malvern Hills 12-13

At one point I seemed to have strayed into Middle Earth and saw what appeared to be HUGE fantastical gates in the forest of Broceliande below.

( 2 more images. )

spiralsheep

Common: Parasol, probably Macrolepiota procera (marvellously toadstoolly cap)

1 Fungi, Parasol, probably Macrolepiota procera, closed, 10-12

( 4 more fungi pics. )

spiralsheep

These are September seasonal photos. Click through to flickr for biggerness. Enjoy!

Fungi, Sessile Earthstars, Geastrum fimbriatum: they begin as spheres then their outer layer peels itself back in segments and curls underneath the fruiting body to lift it away from the ground.

Fungi, Sessile Earthstar, Geastrum fimbriatum 2, Malvern Hills, Worcestershire 09-12

( Four more small images. )

glinda

A while back (in..umm...May) I went on a wee day trip to Inchmahome Priory, which is a ruined priory on an island in the middle of Lake of Mentieth. I finally got round to do doing a photo post of the trip and thought you guys might appreciate some of the more nature based stuff that I saw.

( Natural life of the Island )

spiralsheep

As Monday seems to have become my nature diary day.... I managed to photograph a couple of speckled wood butterflies this week but as I included a link to other people's images last week I won't post them. The ones that got away this week were all red admirals, which I see at this time of year inexplicably fluttering around the eaves of buildings.

Lichen, possibly Candelariella reflexa.

( 5 small images. )

spiralsheep

Not much to say about these beyond: enjoy! :-)

( Two images of colourful August fungi. )

foxfirefey

I see what is apparently Trametes versicolor on dead wood in my area of the Pacific Northwest:

( Pretty branch! )

facetofcathy

Hello to everyone, I love this community, and I wanted to share some of my urban natural world.

I've been complaining about all the rain we've had--three days without rain since April 15--and much colder than normal temperatures to go with it. The effect of the urban habitat is interesting. I took a couple of pictures to illustrate.( Read more... )

copracat

There's a very small patch of dirt in my back yard, where the paving meets the house wall. I seem to have developed mushrooms, beloved of the snails. Behind the cut, a photo of my wee autumn mushrooms.

( mushrooms )

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Entries tagged with fungi

(Palm?) stump with black shelf fungi.

Granadula Mushroom(?)

Puffball Mushrooms

Mushrooms popping up in surprising places

autumn is fungi time

some days "because sun" is the only reason you need

A December fungus, odd objects in the woods, and sunlight on water

Autumn fungi: one rarer and one more common

In which there are fungi, flowers, and fish

Natural Life of a small island in the middle of a Scottish Loch

UK: two fungi and a lichen

UK: Fungi

Trametes versicolor

The results of all this rain

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