#shelf fungus

[madsciencepottery]

Have a fun selection of fungi pictures

[neat-little-artblog]

Today I made some shelf fungus!

[graveyardrabbit]

[sherrylephotography]

@sherrylephotography

5/22 Olympic National Park, State of Washington, USA

Cap Fungus and Shelf Fungus

posted 4/23

[bocceclub]

bloodroot (sanguinaria canadensis) & tinder fungus (fomes fomentarius)

[innervoiceartblog]

Shelf fungus ballerinas by Boyd Dunson

[artistrichardhfay]

Orange shelf fungus growing on a log (a major limb on a nearby Norway maple that came down in a storm a few years ago).

[calculated-chaos]

[cityofmoths]

Beautiful!

[secondhandbagofholding]

Fomitopsis betulina. Birch Polypore, old, likely last year’s growth.

[distantsolarsystemsandsnails]

yes! they are shelf mushrooms. i don't know enough about mushrooms to identify them though.

are these mushrooms? i've always wondered as they just seem different. anyways, beautiful nonetheless.

[vandaliatraveler]

Walk with me: Mid-summer hike through a Central Appalachian forest. As summer hurtles toward its final explosive act, the forest's living things embrace urgent, primordial impulses triggered by shrinking daylight: to bloom, to seed, to feed, and to reproduce before the killing frost of Autumn shocks the earth into hibernation. In the deep forest, the fetid perfume of decaying fungi signals the countdown has begun. From top: a bumblebee traversing the fanning pink flowers of hollow-stemmed Joe-Pye weed (Eutrochium fistulosum); the maturing red stem and flowers of seedbox (Ludwigia alternifolia), also known as rattlebox and square-pod water-primrose, a very attractive wetlands annual with four-sided seed capsules; cowbane (Oxypolis rigidior), also known as common water dropwort, a delicate, marsh-loving member of the carrot family that also happens to be toxic; Allegheny hawkweed (Hieracium paniculatum), also known as panicled hawkweed, a spindly-stemmed member of the dandelion tribe; the lovely and hallucinogenic fly agaric (Amanita muscaria); a sprawling colony of sulphur shelf fungus (Laetiporus sulphureus), an edible delicacy otherwise known as chicken of the woods; a red eft (Notophthalmus viridescens); white wood aster (Eurybia divaricata); a twin set of common puffballs (Lycoperdon perlatum); the fungal version of suburban sprawl courtesy of orange moss agaric (Rickenella fibula); a gelatinous serving of orange witches' butter (Dacrymyces chrysospermus); a fiery clump of eastern Jack-o-lanterns (Omphalotus illudens); a potter wasp (Ancistrocerus campestris) drinking from the clumped white flowers of virgin's bower (Clematis virginiana); one of my all-time favorite critters, a locust borer (Megacyllene robiniae), taking its nectar fill from flat-top goldentop (Euthamia graminifolia), also known as grass-leaved goldenrod; a green metallic sweat bee (Augochloropsis ?) finding sustenance from parasol white-top (Doellingeria umbellata var. umbellata), also known as flat-top aster; and the intricate purple flowers of tall ironweed (Vernonia gigantea).

[bbbugsnstuff]

Beautiful orange fungus growing on a fallen log

Reminds me of sunshine

This might be the beloved chicken-of-the-woods (Laetiporus sulphureus), but I'm no mycologist; I just like to take pretty nature pictures. I'm reasonably sure it's at least part of that genus, though, but even still there are a lot of fungi that resemble this.

As always, I welcome corrections and/or further knowledge. 'Cause learning is fun!

[graveyardrabbit]

[ancientstarrydynamo]

[alcnfr]

A set of fungus on the old hollow feeder stump...