Rik Gern is specializing in mushroom photos lately. Here are some photos from Wisconsin, though Rik lives in Austin, Texas. His captions and IDs are indented, and you can enlarge his photos by clicking on them.
Here are some more mushroom pictures from my recent trip to northern Wisconsin. This is the first of two batches dedicated to the ubiquitous Pinewood gingertail (Xeromphalina campanella). These technically edible, but bitter-tasting mushrooms are usually found in large clusters.
Here are some on a fallen tree:
This cluster was found at the base of a living tree:
A closeup of this group of Pinewood gingertails in an old tree stump gives the impression of giant mushrooms at the mouth of a cave!:
These mushrooms growing in the crevice of a tree look like more giants, this time growing on the side of a rocky cliff:
The rest of the pictures are of individual and clustered mushrooms growing on mossy logs. I don’t know what it is about this species that I find so beautiful, but to my eye they represent the Northwoods as much as the ferns and pine trees:
One more batch of these beauties is on the way!
Thank you, I enjoyed these photos!
Very lovely pictures! Those are some incredible finds.
Very nice photographs! When we’re walking in the woods, we often take note of the beautiful mushrooms that sprout from the dark dank.
Wonderful! One of our contributors at WEIT (who did insect pics)… lately talked about the challenges of “wrangling” insects. Boggles the mind!
I guess with your studies… there’s not a lot of that. The ‘shrooms can’t get away!
Cheers anyway and thx for the great photos!
D.A.
NYC
Thank you for the pictures! I’ll keep my eyes out for these mushrooms when I’m walking in the woods in the future.
A nice selection!