land of wonders ~ july version 1/2

The consistent rain continues this Summer and so do the fun(gi) finds. Some growths pop up willy nilly and disappear just as randomly. Others hang around and offer daily observation. Until they eventually give back to Mother Earth.

Photos have to be taken quickly while swatting mosquitos, even with my iphone.

The Woodland Fairies built a tiny canoe shaped cover to deal with the rain.
Complete with parasols, of course :)
7.1.25

hidden cactus started blooming mid-June and continue into July
7.3.25

wild milkweed getting ready to bloom

we only have a few monarchs fluttering about this year

so many dewy webs

orange coral continues morphing
(first spotted june 20th)


someone left lights on inside the tree


Two Lips are back. Not normally white.

I have seen a lot of white mushrooms this season.
One can only assume due to our excess rain.


The Blob mushrooms

Dainty horse nettle blooms.

dipped in white chocolate

Google ID says parasitic "bolete mould"

freshly "salted" golden mushrooms

I've been told they are as delicious as Morels.

Two days later they looked like this:

 I have always thought of these as wild Morning Glories,
but Google says they are Hedge Bindweed.

a larger parasol

I find the details interesting.

various Red mushrooms started appearing


No, I do not touch anything fungi/moldy with or without gloves.

Hoary Vervain, a wild type of Verbena

I leave the wild things grow where they please, but also grow these in my Butterfly Garden :)

Daily Surprises are here today, gone tomorrow

Two Lips, not fully formed. 

Yes, these are my given names.

yucky sponge

Google says it is an older version of the white chocolate mushroom above.
Perhaps.



Large Velvety and Yellow (commonly seen at bottom of trees)



fairy spa

this fuzzy wuzzy was not a bear



white phalic looking mushroom popped up and lasted for days
(ha! edit comment)

a couple days of finding fuzz

tan coral finally appeared & is very common in our woods



Cinnamon colored tops started popping up

same Orange Coral has lasted over 3 weeks
7.13.25

Tank says "every day in the woods is an adventure!!"
7.15.25

fall fungi

Can you stand yet another post about fungi? I've been away for a few days and came home to find our wet woods covered with mushrooms. They were popping out of the ground just about everywhere. Much of what I saw I've already discovered (and shared) but there were a few new to me. Or at least I think they are new to me. Hard to tell with some, considering the many stages mushrooms rapidly go through. 

This hard to miss phallic looking mushroom (or towering turd?) showed up late afternoon on our wooded Y path. The very next day on our morning walk, it was completely gone.

 
September 29

During dryer days these more ordinary mushrooms popped up off the trail:

September 30

White cottage cheese looking moldy growth (and lichen) on our cedar tree:

October 2


tiny brown mushrooms cohabitating on this pine stump

These leathery brown mushrooms have been growing a good two weeks in the middle of the Y path, and eventually joined each other. They are very visable and nothing has eaten them.

I've seen these wavy waxy mushrooms in many places. This particular one has been growing a short distance from the leathery ones above, on our Y path for over a week. When nothing touches such visible mushrooms, I can only assume they are poisonous. I believe animals are smart and have ingrained nature skills to survive.

These next two mushrooms with gills, look like the same kinda 'shroom in different stages:

October 3

These brown tone mushrooms were just darn cute. Not very large on their own, but grouped together they are sizable. There were more than one group, this was the largest:

two days later the group looked like this

I've seen several tan smooth irregular shaped blobby medium sized mushrooms growing off the beaten path:

I found white stuff growing off dead wood:

October 3

I've seen these large oyster shell looking mushrooms elsewhere, but never on our property. They were hiding and growing off a large oak tree that fell a few years back. Much larger than appears in the photo.

October 5

The pine floor was very wet and produced these stone type mushrooms:

the beginning of the next two mushrooms

SO many different kinds of tiny parisol mushrooms, everywhere!! I couldn't pass this cute dew dropped one up. Look at how thin the stem is:

I came across what I thought was a dead animal, but with a closer look I realized they were fuzz covered mushrooms:

I see these in various places, stages and colors:

a fungi snowman

(probably should have flipped the photo)


a tiny glossy brown cap mushroom

perhaps an older version of what I call a "golf ball" mushroom
(seen above as a snowman)

Today was quite the mushroom finding day!!! It turns out, fun-gal blogger Val was right about unusual fun-guy appearing in Fall.

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Editing this post to add another mushroom I found on my hike today. I told myself "no mushroom photos" but I must add this one:

it's purpleness stopped me in my tracks

You could see a hint of purple on the top cap too. I don't normally touch or move mushrooms, but I had a feeling there was some awesomeness underneath, and I was right! There were two, in the middle of the main trail in our pines.

(my phone focused on the roots, instead of the gills ~ sorry)