Fungi Friday - This Week's Finds

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Here are a few fungi sightings from this week for #fungifriday by ewkaw@ewkaw

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This first batch of ink caps were growing after it rained all night.

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They love the mulch under the well kept trees in the park. These are edible but I wouldn't trust the chemicals in the mulch as mushrooms pick up pollutants from the environment easily.

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This yellow mess is dog vomit slime mold. When its hot and humid this stuff will grow on dead leaves and mulch.
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Later on it dries up into a brown crust.

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Here is a waterlogged mushroom hiding under a dead tree. I'm not sure what kind it is bu the gnats were loving it.
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This one looks to be an amanita of some kind. It could also be a meadow mushroom but the lack of pink gills points more to amanita.

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Not a mushroom but a nice lotus flower blooming in a pond. Mushroom season tends to start when the first lotus flowers bloom.

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I've been keeping an eye out on the dead cicadas for a rare fungi. This rare fungi is called Massospora cicadina and it turns them into sex-crazed zombies in order to spread more of the fungi. Birds that eat these infected cicadas get hallucinations. The fungus is just a white chalky powder that appears on the thorax. So far I haven't found any of this rare fungi but here is an interesting article about it.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-19813-0

That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)

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