Oklahoma Fungi Finds

Skull

Happy #fungifriday 🍄 On a recent trip to middle America, I had the chance to hike a bit in a wildlife refuge area in Oklahoma. I took some picture of the local mushrooms.

Grey Shelf mushroom

First mushroom was a grey shelf mushroom, I think hoof fungus.

Grey shelf mushrooms

Here's a view of the log the hoof fungus was growing on.

Kansas Road

We actually started the day in Kansas. This is typical of the area we were in.

Round shelf mushroom

Round colorful mushroom growing on a stump.

Ganoderma sessile?

Here's another view. I think maybe these were Ganoderma sessile.

Ganoderma closeup

Here's a close up of the smaller mushroom.

Oklahoma road in refuge

One of the areas we walked was the Little River National Wildlife Refuge near Broken Bow, Oklahoma.
https://www.fws.gov/refuge/little-river

Green water

There were some swampy areas like this shot of green water.

White mushroom

These bright white mushrooms stood out in the filtered light of the forest.

White mushroom cluster

Maybe Pleurotus pulmonarius aka Indian oyster or lung oyster.

Clusters of mushrooms

This is a good place to remind everyone that I am an amatuer mushroom enthusiast without alot of experience. My ID's are at best wild guesses 🤣

White mushrooms on log

We were looking for snakes but didn't have much luck in this area.

Delicate white mushrooms

Leucocoprinus cepistipes maybe? In any case, nice looking little white mushrooms.

Decaying shelf mushrooms

These shelf mushrooms were decaying.

Closeup on decaying mushrooms

Always harder to get a good ID when you aren't sure about the life stage of the mushroom. I think these are well past their prime.

Young mushrooms

This young mushroom may be a Meripilus sumstinei, or giant polypore.

Popcorn fungi

Maybe more of the same or maybe a different fungi. Again I think it is very young and just getting started.

Pretty shelf mushrooms

Not sure of the ID on these shelf mushrooms but I always like mushrooms that create patterns like these 🙂

White puffy mushrooms

Finally a couple of shots of a white puffy mushrooms.

Tiny white puffy mushroom

These may be more of the same mushroom pictured about that I tenatively ID'ed as Leucocoprinus cepistipes - just not quite as far opened up.

Odd trail marker

In case you were wondering about the horse skull in the first photo 😁 - this odd trail marker was at the end of one of the roads leading into the wildlife refuge. Probably just some silly Okies trying to scare us off 😅

Thanks for checking out my post 👍 Thats it for the mushrooms.

Bonus pics:

Tree Frog

Cute little tree frog found in the hanging plants at the place we stayed for the night.

Frog Friend