Urban mushrooms

[urbpan]

These pictures were taken while I was doing some work in the "Hooves and Horns" section of the zoo. Here I'm looking through the perimeter fence at the intersection of Blue Hill Ave and Seaver Street. The big log has some chicken mushrooms (Laetiporus) growing from it.


These attractive little LBMs caught my eye. At first I thought they might be Mycena but that genus always produces white spores, and the dark undersides of these suggests dark spores.


I dug around them to see what they were growing from, and discovered they had surprisingly long stems.

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[bunrab.livejournal.com]

Oh, Steve and I always referred to that section of any zoo as "Hoof 'n Horns" - and other people looked at us funny. Good to know someone else thinks of that category that way.