Friday, October 23, 2020

Salmon River Trail fungi (and a few lichen)...

For the last couple of weeks I've been painstakingly uploading my photos one at a time to get them in the order I want to share them in. Today I thought I'd experiment and see if Google has magically made things better with their sorry excuse for a software update. They have not. So the first photo for this post is last, which is kind of fun, since I think I found the best first... follow me? Well, just enjoy...

In addition to the multiple mosses I shared yesterday (along the Salmon River) I also came across quite a few mushrooms and other lichen. This one had teeth any vampire would be proud of.

I won't lie, I needed to touch this one to see if it was slimy, slick, or sort of lacquered. It felt lacquered.

This shelf lichen glowed as if it were lit from within.

Have you ever went to sauté chopped garlic and accidently burnt it? I thought these looked like someone sprinkled burnt garlic on them.

I did take a photo with the camera aimed up from below, to capture the underside of the mushrooms, but the sky was so bright it made the image unusable.

Whereas this little guy was showing off his gills with no shame.

The pack was growing...

These look soft, but they were quite hard.

So curly!

Not sure exactly what this is all about, it seems like it would be more at home on an ocean beach than a forest floor.

And this! That orange looked like it would glow in the dark...

Don't you think?

This doesn't look healthy.

Even more so. I kind of expected the opening on the left to start talking, or maybe blow out smoke.

This pair was my favorite find of the day.

They were so exotic looking, attached to that mossy tree.

I expected the top to have a jelly-like consistency but it was solid, again rather like lacquer.

What a visually rewarding outing this was. 

Weather Diary, Oct 22: Hi 57, Low 36/ Precip 0 

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18 comments:

  1. Perfect for the season of Ghouls and Goblins. Glow in the dark, toothy, ghostly white mushrooms. Awesome. I find them popping up in my own garden, in all shapes and sizes, including the red cap Amanita mushroom, that makes me want to look underneath for fairy...

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    1. I think I would be quite happy to find an Amanita mushroom in my garden!

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  2. Ooh, love the fungi! They are popping up all over right now, you saw some great ones. Say, I've had some success with photo arranging, let me know if you want me to share.

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    1. Thanks for the tips... I look forward to trying them out later today!

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  3. Great collection of funghi! I have never seen anything as interesting as that around here.

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    1. I was really blown away by what I saw, so much diversity.

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  4. Wow, what a range of fungi! That's something you'd never see here.
    Your post sent me outside to check on the fungi I'd found attached to a decaying tree stump a few weeks ago. Once I shook off the huge spider who's web I walked straight through, I found the fungi had shriveled into tiny relics of their former selves, presumably in response to our recent heatwaves.

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    1. Indeed, it does take a certain climate to grow creatures such as these.

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  5. Your area has great fungi as well as moss. I bet your woods are fairly jumping with them!

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    1. Alive, it's alive! (sorry, I'm not sure what came over me there)

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  6. Such a complex range of fungi. You live in such an interesting area.

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  7. Fascinating seeing these mysterious systems do their thing... Beautiful photographs. Thanks so much for sharing these!

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  8. These are impressive--the fungi and lichens, and your photos! The Blogger thing is frustrating, for sure. Looks like you have it figured out, though. Great post!

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    1. I am so upset that they took something easy and made difficult.

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  9. Great Salmon River Trail Blogs! (and lichens!)

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  10. Love these photos, especially the blue smoking lips. What variety!

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