Mycology

iNaturalist visual ID suggested it could be one of the four species of mushrooms commonly called Destroying Angel.

These are probably pretty common but I thought they looked really cool. Sprung up in my Pomegranate tree pot.

This has been in my wallpaper & random image collection for a while. Unfortunately I forgot the name but I remember that they are tiny in real size, just a millimeter or so. Maybe somebody recognizes them?

Great Lakes region, USA. September 5, 2026.

From a distance I thought it was a COTW. It's definitely not. Probably something in the Hericium genus? Supposedly they promote nerve growth.

I was able to get out over the weekend and snagged some monster smooth chanterelles, a decent handful of gorgeous cinnabar chanterelles and some bonus Strobilomyces.

Wonderful color variety. Ganoderma sessile, Strobilomyces, Laccaria ochropurpurea and edible green russulas (I think a blend of R. virescens, parvovirescens, and crustosa.)

This is a first time I came across one of these and what a weirdo. I found it initially and it had the mother of all volv.........universal veils.

I let it pop and I ended up with a big beautiful white mushrooms. They say it is edible but the whole growing out of the sack grossed me out on this one so I passed.

I have a thing for purple mushrooms enough to have a tattoo of C. violaceus. I am pretty sure I have the ID right but I could not get myself to cut this guy down and bring home, it was too pretty.

Also if any bolete boys have some input on this big guy I would appreciate it.

I am leaning toward edulis complex but I am not sure. This is NW Indiana as well.

Exsudoporus frostii, Frost's bolete. I know it has a sour flavor and dries well..anyone eaten them? Any suggestions? I'll post photos of the patch below. Wish there was some sort of photo gallery option.

Here is a good example of those crazy long stripes on these guys. I have found ones that are nearly a foot long before.

I have been swamped with a bathroom remodel and have been absent but I am back just in time for fall.

Extra pictures of a eastern box turtle climbing a hill(I helped him up and carried him to the top).

From a beautiful Laetiporus cincinnatus found earlier in July. It was in great shape, but the lower layers had grown around a fair amount of stiltgrass, and I didn't want to hog it all.

I believe this is edible, but I've never picked any.

EDIT: This may not be Ramaria flava, but another species.

A picture of a bolete mushroom I saw this morning. I was in a hurry and couldn't really check, but I believe this may be a Leccinum Scabrum.

Bonus picture of an unidentified but, I think, pretty mushroom munching on the trunk of a dead tree:

Two pounds of smooth chanterelles, young dryad's saddle, a few old-man-of-the-woods, a black velvet bolete and some lovely white-pored chicken of the woods.

Went foraging and found a nice little clump of golden chantarelles. It's a bit early in the season, but the bravest ones are already out.

This bad boy has enough amatoxins to painfully and slowly kill you( Slaps cap emphatically). The all white appearance is wonderful on these, all I can think of is a ghost.

I am not sure on the exact species as there are a handful of closely related ones in NW Indiana. I did not take it home to break out a microscope or KOH, so we will have to survive without.

Now I am curious if whatever slug munched on this is toast, if any slug specialists out there want to fill me in I would appreciate it.

Bonus Cinnamon chanterelle, another bright red mushroom that looks out of place.

It is always nice to see the vibrant red. Found in NW Indiana

If you consumed a wild mushroom and suddenly started seeing tiny people around you, you might reasonably assume it contained a familiar psychedelic.

But that does not appear to be the case with Lanmaoa asiatica, known locally as jian shou qing, a mushroom species sold in markets in Yunnan, southwestern China.

When eaten undercooked, the mushroom can produce vivid visions of miniature people – not unlike Gulliver on his travels to Lilliput.

Yunnan hospitals get dozens of these cases each year.

To try and find out the root cause, University of Utah mycologists Colin Domnauer and Bryn Dentinger sequenced the genomes of 53 mushroom samples from across the wider Lanmaoa genus.

Per usual mushrooms do what they want. This species is not supposed to be popping right now until later in the year. The conditions were right though to fire it off though.

This is easily the biggest one(foot for scale is the best I could do in the bramble)I have come across and with all the rain we have been getting, split the poor guy apart.

Bonus eastern box turtle.

Another coral I stumbled across in the woods. The color on these guys is incredible.

Bonus shot of some baby racoons.