Is this like throwing out the first ball of the season????
FUN day today!!!!!!
Let the games begin..........
OK - I will toss out another one - and see if I can entice anyone else to post a fungus just because you can!!!
Need a few brackets? I have some to spare.
How perfect, June!!! Love brackets!! AND that is a great photo!!! Thank you!
Any other fun guys or fun gals out there???
Three more Lepiota show up in full "bloom" just off my deck. Yummy stuff - very yummy!!!
Don't eat Lepiota!
Here's Rhodocollybia laulaha, a mushroom found only in Hawaiian rainforests.
Lepiota americana IS edible, choice, and safe. I checked spore color before trying the first flush a couple days ago. No bad outcomes there. Equally, I have learned to try a small amount to make certain I don't have a sensitivity. (Edit: Metro - thank you for your cautionary statement - well justified. I already knew about the green spored critter, but your warnings DID cause me to go back and reread what I thought I already knew. Can't be too careful!)
Love your photo of Rhodocollybia - too bad it is outside my range. Thanks for sharing.
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Another view of the Hawaiian fungi.
Did I hear someone calling for fungi foto's?
Here are a few from my yard just yesterday:
I'm not a mycologist, so I don't know any of the names.
I'm not even sure one of them is fungal at all, but you guys can set me straight.
Here's the first:
This is the same cluster seen from the back.
Growing out of the top of a tree stump.
Another cluster
Looks like yeast rolls straight from the oven...
A beach parasol?
Last is this odd thing. I'm not sure it's fungal or saprophyte.
That last "odd thing" looks like a Ramaria, Coral Fungus.
They grow in leaf litter on forest floors.
Here is Coprinus disseminatus growing on a rotting tree stump.
Weerobin - your yard is WONDERFUL!!!! I especially like the yeast rolls!!! So many folks get all upset to see fungi - not understanding that it is just a part of the decomposition cycle that keeps returning the elements to the earth for some other life form to use. Enjoy these fruiting bodies while they are there. The rest of the year, the fungal hyphae are busy doing the real work of decomposition - all hidden from our curious eyes.
Metro - the Coprinus looks so delicate - delightful!
Here's some more Unidentified Fungal Objects. I think this one is a tooth fungus. It's growing on a living beech tree with a damaged trunk.
This one's a gilled mushroom, growing out of an old, rotting log. I noticed it because light was reflecting off the cap, as if it was polished pewter. Does anyone know what it is?
That does look like a Tooth Fungus, Hericium sp..
Here is an Australian contribution, a Seastar Stinkhorn, Anthurus archeri
Kennedy
Bizarre! How smelly is Seastar Stinkhorn?
Oh my - Anthurus archeri - you would stop ME dead in my tracks!!!!
Love the photos - keep it up!!!!!!!!
I have never stuck my nose close to one, but reportedly "In maturity it smells of putrid flesh"
If you can see little orange mushrooms in this moss, they are Rickenella fibula, the Moss Agaric. They measure just a few millimeters across on the cap.
I'll have to find a better photo.
Here is a plant parasite, Korthalsella latissima, Hawaiian Mistletoe.
About Rickenella fibula, the Moss Agaric. - I see the moss spore capsules (I think), but am not able to see anything fungal.
Rickenella fibula also grows in Australia. It is always found growing in moss and is very small, but not quite as small as anything in your picture.
Here is an Australian Rickenella fibula picture
Ken
Kewl beans, Ken - thank you!!!!!!!!!!
The thumbnail was too small to see whether the fungi was in there.
Here's another attempt at Rickella.
Maybe this one will be better behaved.
OMG - I feel like such a misfit!!!!!!!! Not only would I scarcely even notice a fungus was there, I would have no CLUE as to how to identify it on my own!!!!!! I have learned, through time however, that DG is a grand place to look for help. If no one here can ID something, then it is probably something I don't need to know!!!!!!!!
Flower-pot Parasol beginning to grow.
Leucocoprinus birnbaumii at maturity.
Great sequence on the photos and what fun to have it emerging from the compost bag!
Can anyone tell me what this is?
There are 4 of them at the base of a dogwood tree by my front door
It's a Geastrum, Earthstar.
Maybe Geastrum triplex.
Geastrum triplex has rays that crack away leaving a saucer around the spore sac.
It looks like that is what Weerobin's Earthstar is doing.
http://www.fungi4schools.org/Reprints/Photoset01/Geastrum_triplex_Collared_Earthstar.jpg
http://www.english-country-garden.com/fungus/collared-earthstar.htm
Is it toxic to handle?
Geastrum triplex is a poisonous inedible fungus, but you won't get poisoned by touching it. Of course wash your hands if you do touch it, before you do anything else.