Ok, you got me. These are from last year. But the mycelial networks are kicking into high gear right about now, and I'm getting antsy for some photo hunting.
I'm not sure what they are but as soon as they fruited something ate them the following night.
Coastal Massachusetts, USA
Auricularia auricula-judas is now called wood ear or black wood ear and is edible.
Tangent info: This mushroom used to have the name Jew's Ear Fungus, as you can see in the latin name. I have a bunch of Tradescantia zebrina in my garden and it has recently been renamed "Wandering Dude". I'm sure you can figure out what it used to be called.
Tradescantia zebrina (not my pic)
Central Florida, so probably not oyster. Also, definitely not an oyster based on that stem. And it was only an inch and half tall.
Photo by Len Buress
Carrot like shapes emerging from a small cone on this cedar tree. Thanks for the identification, Myriorama Found this on the web:-- A fungus called Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae causes this unsightly cedar apple rust gall to appear on eastern redcedar trees (alternate host). The fungus overwinters inside these galls, then the orange jellylike "horns" (called telia) seen in the above photograph grow out of the gall in the spring and produce spores which may infect apple leaves to continue the life history of the fungus.
Photographed by James A. Christensen. Here's his website: https://primevalnature.photoshelter.com/
For the visually impaired. Standard issue mushroom, but completely purple. Perspective of the photo makes it look huge, but this species is typically only around 6 inches wide.
For the visually impaired: an unusually shaped mushroom. No mushroom head and the trunk splits into many trunks like a tree or a form of coral. Completely purple.
link to the photographer's flickr page
For the visually impaired: a cluster of rather ordinary looking mushrooms under a hollybush with the exception that they are completely purple.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1188351
Hand for scale, because there were no bananas at hand
Helvella dryophila
Pseudoclitocybe cyathiformis
Amauraderma rugosum
Strobilomyces strobilaceus
Trichoglossum hirsutum
Craterellus cornucopioides
Only recently started learning about mushrooms and this is the first mushroom I've been able to identify in the wild!
