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Hedgehogs, Trumpets and more! [image heavy]

#13860329 - 01/27/11 02:23 PM (15 years, 7 months ago)

Hell again! So, first off - I will say this is the first time that I have posted pictures this large, and if anyone has a problem I can easily revert them to thumbnails. I have just seen so many other members post pictures this large, I figured I'd do it :shrug:

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Around my neck of the woods the weather has really taken a nice turn, and the last week we've had a low of about 40 degrees at night with highs in the mid to high 50's during the day with scattered showers and lots of sun actually. Well, me and my hunting buddy decided to go out and see what this nice new weather brought us, and we were both pleasantly surprised with how much fungal activity there was out there!

Considering that our only real goal was to fins some turkey tail, it was a good sign that this was the first thing we came across.. there was actually a bunch more than I had photographed - not sure why I didn't get more of it in the shot...

I found this guy growing inside the bottom of a large oak tree! I would have never seen it had I not walked off the path and behind some tree to take a leak. :lol:

I think it may be a pink Entoloma sp. perhaps? :shrug:

There was a definite abundance of Mycena about...

Not sure on this elegant little fella. Maybe Conocybe sp., but probably not. Anyone?

A HUMONGOUS fallen oak... The apex of the roots were easily 20 feet high. I had no way of getting up to take a picture of the top of whatever polypore was eating up it's root.

And than, as I was climbing up the back side of the root structure to try and get a picture of the top of the Polypore, I found this beautiful little unknown Pluteus sp. (I am guessing it is Pluteus at least...)

Galerina sp., probably Galerina marginata but it was really dirty and I wasn't extremely interested in it.

There was no shortage of Fomitopsis pinicola..

So at this point we had hiked over 4 miles uphill, and we were both thinking about turning around, as we hadn't been finding anything of much interest, and the trail that we were going down didn't seem to be leading to any particularly interesting view or ending. So we decided to basically poke our heads up one last fork in the trail and see if anything changes, than head back... Well, as we started up this fork, we instantly saw a spike in fungal activity. So it lead us further and further up the hill. Initially it was a bunch of Pseudohydnum gelatinosum that got me excited. Namely this MONSTROUS specimen. I had never seen one this large.

There was also this guy, which I wasn't too sure about - but piqued my interest. Any ideas?

But then... we started finding THESE things... :evil2:

At first I didn't even notice they were around us, as I was practically stepping right on a patch when I realized what they were! Trumpets!!

So I got pretty excited right about now, and thought to myself that we had definitely stumbled into a cool microclimate that needs to be explored deeper... and, as we start making our way up the hill, through the dense maples, oaks and what not, I spotted what I at first thought to be an old shriveled Chantrelle. But after further examination it was in fact something WAY cooler than a shriveled up Chantrelle - it was super fresh, prime, Hedgehog! I have a feeling the species we are finding is Hydnum umbilicatum given the lack of pine and considerable mix of hardwoods. Also, they are fairly small specimen (though, some getting pretty damn fat!). Anyway.. BOOYAH! :awedance:

After finding all these cool edibles we decided to just finish our hike up this rather steep hill - and to our pleasant surprise we made it to the top of a SWEET clearing. Ended up being the perfect little hike. :cheers:

Oh, and whilst atop this clearing, I was poking around and found this unknown red polypore which resembles an earplug. Any ideas?

Peace, and thanks for checking out my thread!!
:cheers:

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