Been too tired to chase auroras the past few nights but really happy for those of you that saw it, and thankful for the amazing pictures you've plastered over Mastodon.
I did get out today in the autumn foliage and was lucky to see my first Mycena Interrupta, or cute little blue mushy, since moving to Tasmania.
These wonderful little Q-tip sprouty things are Swamp Beacon [Mitrula elegans] mushrooms, and up until yesterday I had never found one. In fact they aren’t listed in many of my guides or fungi websites I visit. They mostly grow on fallen conifer needles IN BOGS… so you can see why they don’t get a lot of press!
For #FungiFriday some:
Carbon Balls!
King Alfred’s Cakes!
Cramp Balls!
Coal Fungi!
Ulcer Clumps!
Ok, I made that last one up. Found this ash branch loaded with them as they age from a dirty brick red to black. The second picture is if you slice one open - you see concentric rings, like a tree.
In this installment of What Color Is My Turkey Tail, we have at least 8 distinct colors including chestnut brown, seaweed green, some sidewalk gray, and a pleasing splash of steel blue.
Wild mushrooms I saw on a hike back in the summer of 2011. Too much green and lack of variety to make it an art print (for me, at least) so it's been gathering dust on my hard drives over the past thirteen years.
Ruta pel bosc pintat de Poblet a la Conca de Barberà. Paratge amb una vegetació variada i arbres enormes on es poden sentir el cants de dotzenes d'ocells / Route through the painted forest of Poblet in Conca de Barberà. A place with varied vegetation and massive trees where you can hear the songs of dozens of birds #BoscPintatdePoblet#poblet#castellfollit#catalunya#Mushrooms#arbres#trees#forest#bosc