It's still Friday where I am so here is a #FungiFriday post about another mushroom foray I went on with my local mycology club.
Again, we were in White Pine dominated forests. So that meant plenty of Suillus mushrooms which are mycorhyzial with the Eastern White Pine (Pinus strobus). Here is the Painted Suillus (Suillus spraguei).
Starting off the walk there was a large patch of sphagnum moss with a bunch of these little blue mushrooms popping out. Not sure what they are, somebody called them "bluets" but I can't find the scientific name to attach to them.
Of course there was my favorite, the Amanita. They were plentiful. The one below is called the Poison Champagne Amanita, Amanita crenulata. It has a faint ring, rounded bulb at the base, light tan/brown cap (champagne color??), etc.
We found some Shiny Cinnamon Polypores (Coltricia cinnamomea) growing from the soil. They are shiny and velvety on top with a rooting stipe and many pores on the undersurface.
It was great habitat for fungi with a lot of small ponds and downed logs. One log in particular had hundreds of mushrooms sprouting from it. These were the Xeromphalina campanella)
Below I think are a type of "bonnet" or Mycena but I am not sure.
I took some time to enjoy this particular Cortinarius iodes. I didn't lick its slimy cap, though that is the only macroscopic way to differentiate it from an identical species from what I researched. Maybe next time. >.>
Heading back to the table with our discoveries...
Above, holding the Destroying Angel.
Happy hunting!
Ciao, @funferall ! Blewits - Lepista or Clytocibe Nuda would be the Wood Blewit, like the blue ones at the beginning of your post above :-) Happy mushrooming! :-D Thank you for sharing these fabulous photos: I very much miss the familiarity of mushrooms from Scotland, and am getting into studying the ones that grow near where I live here in BN, Italia :-) Blessings! :Clare
Hi @clareartista thanks you for the compliments. I bet Italy has some great mushrooms, they aren't called Porcini for nothing :p
For the little blue mushrooms I found this North American species called Cantharellula umbonata which is associated with moss growing under hardwoods. Looks like a good fit. A new one for me :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantharellula_umbonata
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Yep! We had a wet summer in New England so the shrooms are bountiful.
A beautiful collection of mushrooms and photographs. That blue one looks especially fantastic.