While out hunting for sneaky and elusive morel mushrooms with my brother, I ran across some other fun fungi.
These first specimens were quite close to home and I found them as I took Piper out for our morning ramble (we also found morels on our morning walks, but those have been documented elsewhere).
They fell into the general category of LBMs (little brown mushrooms), being quite small and of minimal interest from the edibility standpoint. Cute, though, and always worth stopping to appreciate.
While down on my knees harvesting morels, I discovered this little rascal hiding in a fallen snag with a hollow to snuggle into. It's a dryad saddle (perhaps being used as interior furniture in a small magical dwelling?).
There were a number of others growing nearby, as well. Although they are edible, we have been told they are not choice, so we've never bothered to collect them. The dryads can continue to use their furnishings without fear from us.
4 comments:
Love those Dryad's Saddles, one of the first fungi I took an interest in enough to look up. Also called Pheasant Back, which is a fun name too. They get nice and big, and I like that. :^)
LBM's : meh. I always look at them, and take a pics, but I will run straight past them to fungi with more color or more interesting form. Kind of fickle, I am. I do like the brown ones that are shaped like bottle caps.
Thank you for the nice pics, makes me want to get out in the woods. But alas, the overgrown lawn calls to me: "Mow me, mow me." Ugh.
Fungal hugs to ya from BetsyLee
awesome.........I learn so much on your wonderful blog!!!
thank you,
Sheila
BetsyLee, I understand the yard work issue. It has rained enough here to keep things growing at a rapid rate - much better than last year's drought, though!
I've heard dryad saddles called pheasant back, too. It must have to do with the shape and patterning. Pheasants are such beautiful birds - they don't hang out around here, though, so these mushrooms stay associated with the tree spirits. :)
Huts right back to you!
Aw, thank you, Sheila. Sometimes I wonder who in the world would care about my odd and usually quite mundane adventures. It's nice to hear they are a little bit useful - or entertaining. :)
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