Mushroom Monday - Desert Edition
Here are some dried out dusty fungi finds for this #mushroommonday
Here is an ancient fossilized mushroom ready for a giant prehistoric pizza.
Just kidding this is just a rock formation in Echo Canyon in the Chiricahua Mountains of Southern Arizona. There is fungi all over these rocks though...
Technically these rocks are covered in lichens. Lichens are neither fungi or algae, they are a symbiotic combination of both.
There are a number of different species of lichens growing on these dry desert rock formations. The symbiosis is that the fungi provides a climate controlled substrate for the algae to grow on. The fungi absorbs frost water that feeds the algae and the algae then feeds the fungi. Eventually the rocks will completely be covered (at least in the shady areas) by the lichens.
Here is a surprising reishi find next to one of the few lakes in Southern Arizona. The desert generally is not hospitable to fungi as it is way to dry. The lake however has kept this reishi alive on a dead tree that fell into the water.
Here is an unidentified polypore growing out of a stump with a thorn plant growing through it. Perhaps the stump is still getting water somehow that makes the dead wood wet enough for fungi to grow.
Up in the mountains I was able to find a familiar fungi that I usually see all over the place in Illinois. This is Stereum hirsutum aka false turkeytail. High up in the mountains it snows in the winter and I suspect this fungi and moss are feeding off melted snow on a dead tree.
Here is another strange unidentified polypore growing on the side of a cottonwood tree. These trees are fed by an artesian well and they grow large and fast then die quickly. I suspect right after the tree died these mushrooms took over.
I didn't plan on finding any fungi in Arizona because it is a desert but fortunately there were some hanging around in rare areas. That's all for now happy #mushroommonday :-)
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Great find of so many different fungi, and colours. The red one looks special.
The rocks are beautiful… and could well be “mushrooms” hahaha 😎
The red one is a nice medicinal reishi. The lichens also have antibacterial medicinal qualities to them. The Native Americans use to put the lichens on their wounds to keep them from getting infected.
That is nice to know @sketch.and.jam thank you for that additional info.
I know about some natural remedies but I am not familiar with those ones.
It’s great to see you found some in these remote desert areas.
Have a wonderful day ☀️
Mushrooms are mazing creatures.
And they can even survive in the dry desert somehow.
The way the photo is taken is incredibly beautiful
It was quite a beautiful place to hike in. I'll have to post the full hike for #wednesdaywalk.
Thank you for sharing beautiful mushrooms on Monday. you thrive in the desert
Yeah I grew up in the desert, it is dry and hot there with all sorts of stickery plants and poisonous reptiles.
okay friend. thanks for entertaining us.
I'll have to post the poisonous snakes soon lol.
am so impressed with the pictures, it looks attractive and amazing
These desert stones are quite interesting, from different angles they look like animals or people or sometimes even mushrooms lol.
Extraordinary. All the pictures you show look awesome.
Thanks :-) it is an amazing place full of interesting rock formations.
Cool, I think we get a fair few shrooms in the UK, but nothing like that scenery! I couldn't handle the heat over there though, i'm a fair weather man!
In winter is is a nice 70F with 30F at night, but in summer it can go over 100F with 70F at night. I'm surprised the lichen can even survive being cooked on the rocks like that.
Life finds a way, no?
Somehow it does in that harsh environment.
some of these mushrooms look very cool and amazing and you have found this very extraordinary mushroom.
They find a way to survive in the dry desert.
This is very unique from mushrooms, where the mushrooms you meet grow in uncertain places and don't think that they can grow on these rocks. However, you managed to find them in an unspecified place but the fungus can grow there, awesome guys, I really like this.
Lichen's are quite interesting, the symbiosis of algae and fungi are needed to survive the desert heat.
That's an interesting thing I thought, how come? Yes, of course this is a mushroom with its uniqueness that can grow in various places and weather, although not all types.
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very beautiful mushroom
Thanks, soon spring will bring the extra beautiful mushrooms.