Last night I have been listening to the rain. It was not a whole night rain thing though, just a few short showers. But rain is rain, it always brings life... and new mushrooms.
I will have to check these days the woods and the ground, maybe the trees too to see if this rain brought enough moisture for new fungi. Until then I checked the mushroom archive I had. Sleeping there for about a month, these mushrooms decided to pop out today, for this #FungiFriday edition.
I met this one while walking in the orchard. There were orange and loquat trees, and a few carob trees. Usually, we could find some of the mushrooms doing their decomposition task on those old trees. But I was lucky (the tree was maybe not that lucky) to see this big mushroom at the bottom of one loquat tree. He didn't introduce himself and I didn't ask for his name, so he stays a stranger.
Mr Stranger.
Mr Stranger doesn't live alone. He has his own little family, growing on the same tree, but seems they are thinner and still younger. The upper surface of the Stranger family is chocolate colour, but I wanted to see how it looks from the other side.
It was a white surface, and I didn't see gills. I guess another type of polyphores is what we see here. Btw, do you see something strange in this fungus? Something that is transpiercing it?
One stalk of grass decided to grow through it!
In the same orchard, but on another tree, a tiny polyphore was growing. A lot younger than Mr Stranger. Maybe a remote relative of our big chocolate-coloured fungus. It was a quite small mushroom.
Let's move forward from the loquat trees. Around the same dates, I saw more mushrooms in one conifer forest. One of them looked like a pancake. A hidden pancake in the middle of the forest.
Mr Heart-shaped also appeared, growing on the ground between the grass. I am wondering why he was living alone. No friends or family members around, but love is what he can give us.
On the other side, this group of mushrooms liked to grow together, one on top of the other 😂
They have grown from the ground, and the only explanation I can give is that they were hiding from the same thing as the fungi from here. In the end, they realized it is much nicer to receive a bit of sunshine.
The last ones were again just solo players. Grown in a random spot in the half-dry grass, enjoying the shade and still not cold autumn temperatures.
A pair of googly eyes would come in handy for this guy, don't you think? There are two dots on it, that resemble eyes... Next time, a pack of googly eyes should be in my pocket when I go mushroom-hunting.
While I was writing this post, it was raining again. That is a good sign, a walk in the forest will have to be scheduled as it is always fun to find a mushroom and participate in the #FungiFriday event held by our host, 