Fungi and associated critters

[David Metsky]

Just some mushroom photos from recent hikes. Please add your own:

 

[Chip]

Nice ! Some look more like sea creatures than land "animals" !

 

[darren]

Nice Dave, I really like the viewpoint in the second shot.

- darren

 

[w7xman]

The patterns and perspective in the next to last one is really neat. Great set! Quite the year for these guys!

 

[JohnL]

Very, very nice photos of some odd stuff, Dave. Thanks for sharing these.

I found a few - new - mushrooms behind the house yesterday in between some of my yard chores.

JohnL

 

[dr_wu002]

Nice Dave, I really like the viewpoint in the second shot.

- darren

I agree. It looks like a forest in some strange, alien world. But all the pictures are pretty cool.

-Dr. Wu

 

[bikehikeskifish]

I'm not super thrilled with the way these came out. This is the best of the bunch. I've never seen a fungi quite like this before -



From Mt. Mansfield on the northern end of the Long Trail.

Tim

 

[nartreb]

That last one looks like a rain-damaged coral fungus, possibly Hericium Coralloides. Or perhaps the mushroom formerly known as H. Coralloides (the name was taken away and given to a very similar relative).

It could also be http://www.mushroomexpert.com/hericium_erinaceus.html

identification key:
http://www.mushroomexpert.com/hericium.html

 

[bikehikeskifish]

That last one looks like a rain-damaged coral fungus, possibly Hericium Coralloides

That would be the undamaged one in Dave's 4th picture?

Tim

 

[nartreb]

That would be the undamaged one in Dave's 4th picture?

Tim

Yep. given the short spines, Dave's is probably the "new" H. Coralloides; formerly H. Ramosa.

 

[NeoAkela]

My macro lens isn't as superb as yours, but here are a few all from Sandwich Dome on the same day:

 

[JohnL]

My macro lens isn't as superb as yours,

It's not the lens but the eye behind it. Very nice shots.

JohnL

 

[Neil]

I held the fern down over the polypore with my pole while I snapped the picture one-handed. There was bit of mist on my lens in the lower left of the picture.

 

[Grumpy]

Neil, NeoAkela, Tim, and Dave all seem like fun-guys to me.

I have enjoyed and appreciate the photos they’ve contributed to this thread, every one of them interesting. Particularly impressive is the viewpoints from which the photos were made. They consistently treat us to new looks from appropriate, but unusual (for most of us) viewing angles.

G.

 

[nartreb]

 

[David Metsky]

Really nice Nartreb, I like that one.

 

[NeoAkela]

Nartreb, that is really cool - looks like seashells!

Here's another one - this time from yesterday's trip down the steep edge of East Hale:

 

[Neil]

I saw these polypores that looked as though they had little ears growing out of them and then I decided that the growth had continued in a new direction after the tree fell. Either that or one funfus is growing on another one.