Here are some early spring finds for this #mushroommonday
It has been slim pickings around here this early in spring for any good mushrooms. I did spot this little tree creeper hanging out under a huge polypore.
These little tree creepers inch their way up the trees looking for ants and other bugs in the tree bark. Hopefully it can find something this early in spring.
This is about the time morels are appearing and these empty walnuts always fake me out when I see them. Their pattern reminds me of the brainy patter of a morel but alas it is just another empty walnut.
The moss is starting to show up, but still not too many mushrooms.
Here is a toothed crust polypore on a dead tree. Not really useful for much.
I did find a fairly large elf cup that was a bit mangled. These usually bloom right before the morels come out.
Here are some standard split gills that are a nice edible. This was the only edible mushroom I found.
Here are some strange looking polypores. My guess is they are tiny little artist's conks.
The only new thing that has been growing in abundance are the LBMs.
These are the LBMs (little brown mushrooms) that were all over the place on the ground.
I suspect they might be in the mycena family but identifying these types of little brown mushrooms is difficult as there are so many different species that look just like these. Odds are they are not edible.
Hopefully by end of April the morels will finally be out. That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)