Mushroom Monday - Miscellaneous Finds

Here are a few finds for the week for this #mushroommonday

The first find was some Ramaria formosa. This one has a common name of salmon coral fungi. Sadly this one is not edible and will cause stomach aches.

Next up is some cup fungi my sister found in Arizona after the monsoon rains over there.

It looks like a form of peziza fungi to me, there are many different species in this group so I'm not sure of the exact Latin name of this one. Plus it is probably pretty rare to see in a desert environment like Arizona.

Here is a polypore just starting to grow on a dead log. It looks a bit mangled because some dirt got kicked on it and it started growing around the dirt.

This side is even growing out of the dirt from the log underneath. I'll have to keep an eye on it to see if it forms into an identifiable shape.

Here is Royoporus badius aka the black leg. These can grow quite large and turn deep brownish red towards the end of their growth cycle.

Here's you can see why they call it the black leg or black footed polypore. The stem is nice and dark.

I missed a good batch of summer oysters. By the time I found them they got scorched by the sun.

I flipped some over to see if the gills were visible but they really dried out.

The last one is a ufo. I suspect it might be either a young chicken of the woods that dried out or possibly some kind of yellow slime mold. Too bad it got dried out before it grew to full size.

That's all for now hopefully the mushrooms will grow more around here from now on. Happy #mushroomonday :-)