Mushroom Monday - This Week's Finds

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Here are a few finds from this week for #mushroommonday
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I picked up this little guy thinking it was a puffball from the top. Then I realized it was a pinning mushroom.

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The fat stem and purple gills seem to point towards a Laccaria ochropurpurea. These are a good edible but you can only eat the caps as the stems are tough.

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I thought these guys were false turkeytail at first.

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I peeled one off and flipped it over. The flesh was way too soft to be a false turkeytail. They also have crinkly shallow gills instead of pores. I think they might be a type of Crepidotus...

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I'm not sure what this reddish orange mess is. It seems to be permeating the entirety of this burnt log.

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I suspect it is a type of crust fungi. Typically I usually only see this in orange or white colors, perhaps this is just a more red version or it will change to orange later on.

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Here are some strange pillowy white large mushrooms.

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The gills are quite dense and there is no stem ring.

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Here's a smaller one from the same batch... I have no idea what these are but they seemed to be everywhere after the rain. I usually stay away from foraging white mushrooms like this because they look too much like deadly mushrooms, though I doubt these are poisonous amanitas.

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Now for a chipmunk stashing a reddening acorn in a cache. I thought it might have been some kind of red mushroom from a distance. Tricked by the chipmunks again...

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