Mushrooms are Groovy

Orange Pore Fungus Favolaschia calocera

Mature earthballs, at various stages of having split open to release their spores. 

A beautiful common earthball just on the brink of maturity, splitting to open to release the dark spores inside.

Halbkugeliger Träuschling, Stropharia semiglobata 08.09.22

Ron Wolf

[Nikon D500; ∑150mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM APO Macro with Flash Nissin MF18; 1/250s; F16; 200 ISO]

I have no idea what this is, maybe a slime mold, maybe a lichen, maybe a fungi? Who knows, but it's funky lookin'

Poisonous look-a-like to the edible and delicious parasol mushroom - the lack of snakeskin-like patterning on the stem gives it away.

Gemeiner Safranschirmling, Chlorophyllum rhacodes 30.09.22

A couple of shaggy parasol mushrooms - Chlorophyllum rhacodes - by Kilfinan Bay yesterday.

Cortinarius sanguineus - a smallish mushroom with eye catching deep red colouration and a silky cap texture. Not good to eat, but can be used for dyeing wool.

Favolaschia calocera by Bernard Spragg. NZ

Love the mysterious dottiness of the stem on Lactarius deliciosus <3

These lovely milkcaps are found in abundant association with conifer trees in the late summer and autumn. The milk they produce when their gills are damaged has a mild, earthy taste, distinguishing it from the hot, peppery taste of the poisonous milkcaps. This mushroom is edible, but not widely sought after.

A fresh little wooly milk cap mushroom - Lactarius torminosus.

This common and beautiful milkcap has a mild tasting ‘milk’ (the latex that is produced when the gills are damaged), which gives it its common name. It is edible, but not particularly sought after. 

I need to know more!