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Mushrooms And Other Fungi in My Yard,
I started in the front yard with some Fairy Ring Mushrooms, which are small lawn mushrooms that grow in a circle. They are beige and quite delicate (right). There were some large, white mushrooms in the front as well. On a stump under some pines I also found many very tiny brown mushrooms, all bunched together.
There were also some medium-sized, green-blue, slimy-looking mushrooms in the woods behind the house. My Mom said that she was sure they must be poisonous from the way they looked. We found them in the field guide and it turns out they are not poisonous at all, although the guide did mention that many people think that they are because of the way they look.
I also found some bright yellow mushrooms with red spots, growing in the grass in an area that gets some sun.
Much of the wood on the wood pile was covered in Turkey Tail fungus (below, left). On an outing, our leader Diane Kithching had shown shown me these. They really do look like a turkey's tail, with shades of brown, red and blue. At the base of another stump I found a large bracket fungus (below, right), in shades of brown with a white underside. I think its scientific name is Trametes confragasa.
On the same day, I took pictures of ten or more other types of mushrooms
and fungi in my yard.
Submitted April 27, 2002
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Last September, I noticed that there were many different kinds of mushrooms growing everywhere in my yard. I thought I would find out more about them by looking carefully and identifying some of them. Since some might be poisonous, I decided that instead of making a collection, I would take pictures.
On another stump I found Orange Jelly. It is bright, bright orange. Here it is on the left, much enlarged, with part of a pine needle in the picture!
On a dead log I found a lot of Wolf's Milk Slime. It looks like puffballs, but when I pressed on one of the round, purplish balls with a stick, it produced a toothpaste-like substance. That is what the book said would happen, so I knew we had identified it correctly.
