3:00 snapshot #1075: a mushroom walk with my dog

[urbpan]

This is the end of the walk. Charlie is really freaked out by stopping to take this snapshot. Or by my insistence that he sit down and look at the camera, that I'm holding with one hand and pointing at his face. Come look at some mushrooms I found in the Stony Brook Reservation, the southernmost park that is in the city of Boston.




It actually took some time before I started noticing mushrooms on this walk, then I came across this patch which was attractive, but entirely unfamiliar to me. I'm not sure if it's a good sign or a bad sign that I had no real desire to pick one and try to identify it.


Maybe this is why I couldn't find the mushrooms at first--they were hiding under the leaf litter. Let me clear some of that off.


Oh, hello, it's a group of Purple Corts! (There are several species of Cortinarius mushrooms which are purple. I'm guessing this is C. alboviolaceus)


And then right at the end I found this wonderful group of pinwheel mushrooms. I tend to call them by their genus name Marasmius. These are M. rotula. They only grow on leaf litter. I actually removed one leaf with four mushrooms on it to use in a moss bowl decoration.


And then the alarm went off and I tried to get Charlie to look at the camera for the snapshot--oh, that's where we came in!

Comments

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

that first shot is begging to be captioned!

[plantmom.livejournal.com]

I <3 Charlie, woods, and mushrooms.

[lisianthia.livejournal.com]

That first photo is awesomely hilarious.

[kryptyd.livejournal.com]

That purple one looks edible. Is it? Not that I care, since cooked mushrooms are horrible. I nibble raw ones though, when I am altruistically cooking mushrooms for others.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Probably, but I wouldn't go on record as saying such without doing a lot more work to get a more precise ID. Pretty sure of the genus, which includes both edible and poisonous species.

[bedfull-o-books.livejournal.com]

I, too, love that first picture. Charlie's expression is priceless.

[bosoxmom.livejournal.com]

I just love it that you take pics of the stuff we mostly walk by.....how many kinds of mushrooms are there and how many are edible??? rough guess..not looking to win Jeopardy or anything.....


what do you know of sumac????

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

There are thought to be somewhere between 10,000 and 20,000 species of mushroom producing fungi, of which about 100 species are known to be poisonous and about 100 are sought after as edibles.

What about sumac? I know this much: http://urbpan.livejournal.com/tag/sumac