Mica Cap

Mica Cap

I found these mushrooms surrounding a standing, dead, hardwood tree the other day.  I was amazed at how many there were.  I wish I had made an image to show the large number.

Gills Mica Cap

A few hours after collection a self digesting process call autodigestion,aka deliquescence.  According to Wikipedia, they are edible before this process begins.

Mica Cap Spore Print

I left a cap on a slide over night to collect a spore print.  Twenty-four hours later it was a black gooey mess, which is reportedly full of spores.  This is the edge of the mess which most resembled a conventional sporeprint.

Mica Cap Gills

The stalk literally fell out of the cap.  I would say it is loosely attached! 

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Galerina Marginata

Galerina Marginata

These mushrooms were growing in a cavity in a log.  LBM's, aka Little Brown Mushrooms, have been driving me crazy since I started photographing mushrooms more aggressively in the fall of 2014.  I sent this picture and others of the same mushrooms to Mushroom Observer and they replied with Galerina marginata.  I am most grateful for their input.  I may be back to having fun photographing mushrooms again.

I want to go back to some of my other "unknown mushroom" photographs to see if they can help me with them.

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Pezizales

Pezizales

I took Chad, Megan, Lucas and Loundon on a nature walk at Gorman Nature Center last Sunday.  I billed it as Mushrooms, Wildflowers and Wildlife.

I showed them the mushrooms I have found.  The boys found this mushroom for me and it was one not in my collection of images.  I thought it to be Woodland Cup.  I submitted to Mushroom Observer on the web and got Pezizales.  I think that I was close.

Pezizales

I went back the next day to photograph it.  I had trouble finding it even though I knew it was there.  The boys have sharp eyes.

Pezizales

I have never seen a stalk like that.  Maybe it is not a stalk.

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Happy Mother's Day

Downy Yellow Violet

The flower is for all the mothers, those celebrating today, and in remembrance of those who have passed on.  Thanks and love to them all.

NMUSAF, Dayton, Ohio

I recently visited the NMUSAF in Dayton.  I made the above image, a panorama, on that visit.  The aircraft displayed are not easy to photograph.  The light is contrasty and angles are difficult.

This is the later version with the bubble canopy which increased the rear vision of the pilot.  It is displayed such that it is photogenic.  

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Brown False Morel

Brown False Morel

I knew I had seen these in the book when I found them.  I was hoping to photograph a moral.  I came close.  The substraite is soil close to a rotting log.

Brown False Morel

They were growing scattered.  The tree trunk behind this one, pictured, is not the rotting log.  It was off to the right.  Many other Brown False Morels were growing all around this mushroom.  I had to be careful not to step on them.  I read that they can grow on rotting wood substrait but I have not observed any doing so.  They are not recommended to be eaten as many reputable observers have reported them to be poison.  LOOK BUT DON'T EAT!

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Dryad Saddle Mushroom

Dryad Saddle Mushroom

Dryad Saddle Mushrooms can get quite large!  I noticed these growing on the side of tree "stump" the other day.  You can see the log on the ground directly behind it.

Dryad Saddle

I believe these to be new growth this spring.  Obviously, the substrait is wood, possibly elm.  This tree's demise was possibly a lightning strike.

Dryad Saddle

The ones growing on the log, I think, are newer growth than the ones previously pictured.

Dryad Saddle

They grow at rakish angles.

Dryad Saddle Primordia

If my learning from growing mushrooms indoors last winter transfers to Dryad Saddle, this would be a picture of Dryad Saddle Primordia, a precursor to mushroom growth.  You can see the individual mushrooms trying to push their way out of the mass.

Dryad Saddle Underside of Cap Tissue, 8X

This is shot, at 8X of the tissue on the underside of the cap.  There are supposed to be pores in this location though, I am unsure whether I see them or not.  I was unable to obtain a spore print.  The tissue may be too young for pores and spores.

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