Thursday, November 24, 2022

And there were 'shrooms

I've been disappointed this fall in my searches for mushrooms. But in this alder wood, when I was not looking for them, there they were. Small to teeny, and only two species, but there they were in abundance.

Almost pure white with a faint piecrust edge and pale brown stalks.

These white mushrooms were everywhere. The ones in this photo were the largest, maybe 1 cm. across. The others? Too small to identify, usually too small even to get down to their level. Look:

Pinhead mushroom, stretching up through the moss.

And there were turkey tails or their look-alikes:

Chilled and exposing their undersides on a fallen tree.

They sprouted out of the trunk from top to bottom (now end to end).

This tree still stands. And the mushrooms are more the usual colour.

And a cluster of moss, for good measure.

And I'm not done yet with that walk through the alder woods. More tomorrow.

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Este otoño no he encontrado los hongos que siempre espero ver. Pero finalmente, en este bosque de alisos, cuando no los buscaba, ahí estaban. Pequeñitos a miniaturos, y de solo dos especies, pero ahi estaban, y en abundancia.

Fotos:

  1. Estos hongos blancos (con un leve baño de color crema claro), con los bordes ondulados y los tallos lisos y color café, pero con todo eso demasiado pequeños para identificarlos, estaban en todas partes. Estos, de la foto, eran los más grandes que vi, a hasta 1 cm. de diámetro.
  2. La mayoría eran del tamaño de este honguito; un hongo como la cabeza de un alfiler.
  3. Estos, los llamados "cola de guajolote" o "cola de pavo", Trametes versicolor, llenaban el tronco de un arbolito caído.
  4. Desde la raiz hasta la corona.
  5. En un aliso vivo, tienen el color más acostumbrado.
  6. Y una ramita de musgos creciendo en un aliso.
Y sigo con este bosquecito de alisos, con más fotos mañana.

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