Jim and I went up north for a little vacation and visited 10 Minnesota state parks. The mushrooms were out and had I still used actual film for taking pictures, I would have a small fortune on film and developing (had that service still existed in my local Target) prints, and then I would have cried because all the pictures would have sucked mightily. But thanks to digital photography, I could make sure I had at least a few nice, in focus pictures.
Here are a few of my favorite mushroom pictures:
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Bay polypore
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underside of the Dryad's Saddle. I love this strange tubular pore surface
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top of Dryad's Saddle
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Possibly an Emetic Russula? Otherwise known as "The Sickener"
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a gilled underside of another red Russula
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don't know what kind, but it popped up in the middle of a trail
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| I like the gill action on this one |
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Irregular pores and a woody stem
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| Inky caps (in the back) and some puffballs (in the front) |
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wolf's milk
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| Green russula |
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Gill action on the green russula
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Orange like a Cheeto
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Some kind of large funnel capAdd caption
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puffballs
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More Cheeto orange. Waxy caps I think
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Coral mushrooms
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Possibly amanitas, which is quite poisonous
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I called these ones pancake mushrooms (did not eat though)
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Lobster mushroom
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Another green Russula
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These were all over at McCarthy Beach state park
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Lion's mane--quite edible and delicious according to information I've read. Sadly I had to leave it there.
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Looks like an orange alien
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I could have taken hours just looking for mushrooms and getting just the right pictures. I didn't learn of the Seek app that identifies plants/animals/birds/fish/and fungi until halfway through the trip, so most of these are unidentified or just guesses based on my googling things like "white mushroom," which is not a very scientific way to identify things (or a very time saving way).
I only picked one mushroom and when I had looked at it, I chucked it back into the forest. I don't pick shrooms to eat them because I am a very very beginner at identifying mushrooms, and I do not trust myself to know which are poisonous and which are edible. I do know the lion's mane one is said to be quite tasty, but I lacked the means to cook it while staying in motels.
Someday, I'd like to find a giant puffball. When I was a kid, my friend Julie and I found a couple in the woods behind our neighborhood and we picked them and kicked them down the street, destroying them. I would love to find more.
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