Category - Mushrooms

This category will feature mostly fungi that produce a fruitbody.

Mushrooms

2019 Mushrooms-A Photo Review

Happy Totals The mushroom, fungi year for 2019 has ended with below normal temperatures and early snowfall (late October) 🙁 Sad, but still a good year in total for photographing these organisms. I ended up with 3381 photos taken...

Mushrooms

Artist’s Conk, organic woodland canvas

Artist’s Conk (Ganoderma applanatum) is a perennial mushroom that has a underside surface suitable as an artist’s canvas (see featured image). Yes it is true, let me explain. Context Let me give you context first. A...

Mushrooms

Early Spring Mushroom

Cup Fungi – Pig’s Ear (Discina perlata) Natural History Overview These fungi are referred to as members of the “snowbank mycota” (Trudell and Ammirati 2009). This means these mushrooms fruit as soon as...