I know my last mushroom post left you wanting more, so here they are: the fungi of field season 2014.
This one looks like a sunrise.
Puffball (?)
A cascade of orange fungi.
The field notebook is for scale—these were big.
Yellow blobby thing…
Yes, it’s that sweaty mushroom again. I still want to know what’s going on with this guy.
So many rings of different colors.
And now for our mystery thing, which is possibly a fungus or possibly a lichen, and which has hairs that make it appear as though it is about to bite you, like a Venus flytrap. Anyone recognize this?
Where I initially found it.
Whoops, I broke the rotten log trying to get a better look. Here it is out in full view.
Update: iNaturalist has IDed the “mystery thing” as a sac fungus in the genus Scutellinia. Pretty cool!