Here are a few finds from the weekend for this #mushroommonday
Look at this horrible monstrosity. At first it looks like a dog has been here but this is a mushroom. This used to be a shaggy mane ink cap but now it has rotted into its inky form. Eventually it will just be a puddle of black goo and once it dries out it will turn to dust and the spores will spread that way.
Here's another not so photogenic one lol. In its younger form they are much cooler looking with white flesh and bright red liquid dots speckled on them, they are known as the bleeding tooth fungus (Hydnellum peckii). As they get older they turn brown like this and their red guttation just turns brown. I'll have to keep an eye on this place for next year to hopefully find their cool looking young form.
Here is another not so aesthetic mushroom. I have no idea what these are, at first I thought they might be a fairy ring mushroom that got too much water from the summer rain but the divot in the top of the cap is uncharacteristic of fairy rings.
Quite a few of them were growing in all sizes. They had very brittle flesh and seemed to be quite asymmetrical in their larger size.
Even their gill pattern seems quite asymmetrical. For now they remain unidentified to me.
The birds nest fungi (Nidulariaceae) is also just starting to emerge. They start out as these little stumpy dots at first then the top opens up to reveal a cup with little spore eggs in it. Here you can see one of the opened up ones on the left. Soon the forest floor will be covered in these.
I found some more meadow mushrooms, but sadly the worms got to their stems with many tiny little maggots crawling/eating their way up to the cap. These are a nice edible mushroom if you can manage to find them out in the wild fields with lots of grass as that tends to make them grow with the best texture. This one was growing in the soggy dirt and bark and that made its flesh too tender causing the bugs to swarm it.
Now for a more nice looking fungi. This is a new find for me, see the freckled pattern on the cap. I thought this might be the freckled dapperling with a Latin Lepiota aspera.
I flipped it over and realized it wasn't a freckled dapperling... They have white gills and this one has reddish brown gills. I have no idea what this one is now... Perhaps its some sort of amanita? Though it lacks the ring on the stem so who really knows... There was only one growing so I didn't see any younger or older examples for reference. Just another unidentified fungal organism for now.
That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)