urbpan: (dandelion)
urbpan ([personal profile] urbpan) wrote2015-11-04 07:16 pm

280 days of Urbpandemonium #198

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Clusters of reddish-capped mushrooms growing from dead hardwood in late fall? Sounds like "brick cap," currently known as Hypholoma lateritium* when it occurs in the eastern United States. Very similar mushrooms probably produced by related but different species of fungi occur in Europe and Asia.

*Brick-colored, woven-edged