Fungi at Greenbelt Lake

[lavendertook]

These pics are for dear spiralsheep, fungi aficionada. This assortment of fungi were attached to a couple of downed tree sections along the path. They swelled with color after a rain in early October. The first here make me think of pancakes.








I love the interlocking cups and the wood grain patterns on these fungi.







Bonus moss, lichen, and leaf mold, along with the fungi here, to provide a whole panoply of parasitic growths.



Curlicues!















My camera could not catch what a pretty vibrant shade of pink, on the bluer side, this fungus was. It seems to have trouble with the vibrant purples and purplish pinks--my favorite shades--or perhaps they're just more vibrant to my eyes and that's why they're favorites of mine--dunno. I can't get the color adjusted in iphoto to better capture it either.



It reminds me of a giant fluted clam shell.

Comments

[ide_cyan]

Pretty fungi!

[lavendertook]

After rain fresh! (-:

[lbilover]

Actually some of them remind me of seashells more than fungi! Very interesting. Thanks!

[lavendertook]

Yeah, they really do. You're welcome. (-:

Commenting now I can see straight, heh

[spiralsheep]

Ooo... some familiar and unfamiliar fungi there. I don't even know what the pink one is but it looks like a rude sculpture made of blancmange. My favourite photos are, unsurprisingly, the one with everything (lichen! moss! decomposition in action! isn't nature marvellous?!) and the one below with the curlicues. Prettier than any of that genus, Trametes, I've ever seen in person.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trametes_versicolor , I think?

Lovely, natch. Thank you! xxx

Re: Commenting now I can see straight, heh

[lavendertook]

I hope the crash wasn't too bad and you've got it sept off now.

It is a pretty vulvic little thing, isn't it.

Thanks for the identification! They had that right after the rain glow that fungi get. (-:

Glad you liked, bb! (-:

[romeny.livejournal.com]

I've always thought mushrooms were beautiful. What's a mystery to me is how folks (and I mean 200 yrs ago) could tell the difference between the poisonous and edible ones. Trial and error maybe?

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

They are the jewels the rain leaves behind. (-: I guess it was trial and error.

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

Fascinating and beautiful!

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

I think so, too.

[jan-u-wine.livejournal.com]

as a hobbit, all i can say is: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH

!!!!

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

:-D Then comes the "munchmunchmunch . . ."

[jan-u-wine.livejournal.com]

yes, indeed!!! with butter, and a side of 'taters, pls!

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

If they make it to the kitchen . . .

[shirebound]

Fungus is so fascinating!

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

And much of it pretty when rain fresh.