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From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.
A few more shots. I’ll share some more answers and narrative for tomorrow’s post and then we’ll be done with mushrooms for a good, long while!
This hail from the night before! Crazy
What a neat fungus! I’m unable to locate my slime mold and fungus pics from a two day exploration and I’m sad – there are some neat, rare, amazing lifeforms we rarely encounter.
Have a great day, everyone.
biff murphy
I’d be leery of mushrooms with knives Alain
WereBear
In honor of these posts, I ordered the special at my local gastro-diner and it was very earthy mushrooms I can’t remember the name of, but it was the Forage Special and delightful :)
J R in WV
I hate it when I can’t find photos I remember taking so clearly.
Slime molds seem so cool, best of luck stumbling across them while looking for something else entirely!
We’ve enjoyed seeing the fruit of your foraging, thanks for sharing!
Ken
What is that yellow one with the tentacles? Is it edible?
Keith P.
Those first two look like hamburgers LOL
zhena gogolia
It’s okay, I’ll just watch Trump’s press conference from yesterday.
rikyrah
Thanks for the pictures ?
mvr
Thanks Alain!
Ramalama
Your mushrooms remind me of meals, of the looming winter, and of this essay by Jeannette Winterson, whose love of dark and winter, gave me motivation over my usual lethargy to walk my dog a second time at twilight.
We have new mushrooms in bloom right now in the old yard. I suspect it might be due to the newish mix of microbes from the ferns, hostas, and lupines (partial shade, full sun area) that have finally come into their own .. in a different part of the yard.
I have noted many people foraging for many of des champignons on walks with the dog. I have not noted their returns the following years. Had they picked the wrong one, or have they moved on to micro-brewing? Which leads me to getting my edible spores from the store. The farmer’s market in the next town, the participatory all-in crowd of a town, has the same guy selling mushrooms year in, year out. That’s because, my partner says, “He looks like a mushroom. He’s one of them.”
Ken
@Ramalama: Maybe he is a mushroom…. Thanks for triggering a fond childhood memory!
Cheryl Rofer
I have slime mold photos. I’ve had several types in my yard, although the last I photographed was last winter. That’s kind of surprising because this year was reasonably wet. There was only one tiny one that I didn’t see until it was making spores.
Amazing organisms!
Ramalama
@Ken: Thanks for the book recommend. I’ve now got it on my “To Be Read” book list.
arrieve
@zhena gogolia: And that’s my morning laugh — thank you!
I love those red mushrooms in the snow.
ET
I occasionally get slime mold in my garden so I don’t feel the need to see a picture of that.