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fungi

Turkey tails and honey mushrooms

It’s just the right time of the year for a walk in the woods. But be warned — do not eat anything I have tried to identify!

Just enjoy the cool, moist air, heavy with the scent of fruiting fungi.

Dead roots are blossoming.

These are probably Honey mushrooms (Armillaria ostoyae) sprouting through the sward from the rotting roots beneath.

And these may be Common stump brittlestems

These are fly agaric which are magnificent this year

Birch polypore are popping up on all the dead birch trees in the wood where the oaks have stolen the light.

In the meadow fairy rings have appeared, above are earthy powdercaps (Cystoderma amienthinium)

Mica caps (Coprinellus micacaeus) under the oak trees
Orange peel fungus (Aleuria aurantia)
Blusher (Amanita rubescens)
Here’s a blusher that has developed and spread — that is the problem — some are so transient and the appearance changes from day to day.
What these were, I will never know.
These are turkey tails — that is obvious.
Rusty porecrust on another dead birch tree.
More pretty honey mushrooms.

Amazing what you can find on a walk in the woods.

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