Here are a few winter finds for this #fungifriday
Surprisingly I found some wood blewits. I suspect these were left over from fall and got frozen.
Normally in fall when they are fresh they are purple in color. But over time they tend to lose their nice purple color and turn brown. This is where it gets tricky to identify them unless you know they have grown in this spot before.
Older wood blewits turn brown and usually have deformed looking caps. If they get too much rain the caps often are flattened out and wrinkled looking. But if they get a typical amount of moisture they end up looking like this. They were too old to harvest at this time unfortunately.
I'm not sure what these were as they were growing in wood chips and were quite dehydrated.
I thought maybe they were deadly galerinas but their gills were not rusty brown. I suspect maybe some kind of mower mushroom.
Here are some tiny small false oysters called crepidotus. They resemble edible oyster mushrooms but are much too small compared to oysters.
Their gills are also different from oyster mushrooms as the gills end at the stem. With oysters the gill will run all the way down the stem.
I also found some ancient oysters that were dried out. Now that I know they grown on this dead log I'll be looking here in the start of summer.
You can also see the gills running down all the way the stem where the mushroom attaches to the tree.
Some strange unidentified dried out mushroom. Perhaps they are orange mycenas that are fully dried out.
Also during the winter months around here you can find various jelly fungi like this amber jelly roll. Wood ear is also commonly found. I like to collect bits of amber, and black jelly roll along with wood ear then dry them out for use later. You can always just put them back into water to rehydrate them for cooking.
That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)