A shaggy, brown-and white mushroom growing in leaf litter, with the cap parasitized by a fluffy green-gray mold.

What up, #fungifriends! It's been a minute. Here, have an old man of the woods (Strobilomyces sp.) sporting a spore beard courtesy of syzygites megalocarpus.

Morel mushroom with a pitted, conical cap and pale stipe growing in dark leaf litter.

Tis the season, baby!

Morchella americana (American yellow morel) spotted on Saturday in NW Ohio. You better bet I ate it.

#fungifriends

ooh, he's FRESH

Gotten plenty on myself... so far still human, but I welcome any and all blob metamorphosis

at this stage, they're fun to pop with a finger! Press on it and coral-colored goo bloops out!

Single mushroom with a fat white stipe mottled with large orangey pores and a slightly fuzzy orangey cap growing on dead wood.

FINALLY! First fresh fungus of spring 2025! Hexagonal-pored polypore making geometry majors everywhere scratch their heads! #fungifriends

Pic taken 4/5/25 south of Chicago

Two white puffball mushrooms with "studded" tops, growing together in the dirt on the forest floor.

A pair of little puffballs, adorned with studs. Pic taken last May south of Chicago. #fungifriends

A grouping of brown-orange mushrooms growing from a rotted log. there is a brown oak leaf just chillin' in the background.

Funeral bells (Galerina marginata), two days ago northwest of Chicago. Pretty much the only living thing I saw in the woods that day. Do not eat these unless you want your organs to shut down.

Grouping of soft pink mushrooms with scalloped edges growing in a group on a log with green leaves in the background.

Grouping of soft pink mushrooms with scalloped edges growing in a group on a log with green leaves in the background.

Bleeding fairy helmets! Didn't cut them to show the red goo inside bc I was not in a violent mood. Pics taken 7/19/24 in Rockford, IL. #fungifriends

Bolete mushroom with a tufted, pinky-coral cap and a slug-chewed stipe, growing in brown leaf litter.

Painted Suillus. A tufted, dusty-rose beauty. Pic taken 6/12/24 near Asheville, NC. #fungifriends

Vibrant, cheeto-orange waxcap mushroom growing in dark soil. The cap is slightly split.

Vibrant, cheeto-orange waxcap mushroom growing in dark soil. This specimen has some black streaks from age and being handled.

Oooh-hoo, witchy woman. Witches hat mushrooms (Hygrocybe conica) are vibrant waxcaps that turn black when handled, or with age.

Pics taken 8/9/24 at the Indiana Dunes. #fungifriends

Handsome, tall bolete mushroom with a velvety beige cap, and a whitish stipe streaked with speckled violet, growing in leaf litter with green leaves in the background.

Violet-gray bolete (Tylopilus plumbeoviolaceous). A HANDSOME mushroom. Look at this thing. Stately. Strong. Give it up for this guy.

8/9/24 at the Indiana Dunes! #fungifriends

Don't underestimate my man.

small mushroom with a light orange pleated cap and white gills, and a velvety dark brown stipe.

small mushroom with a light orange pleated cap and white gills, and a velvety dark brown stipe, growing on a stick.

You can tell it's a hairy long stem marasmius when it has a long, hairy stem and it's a marasmius.

Rhizomarasmius pyrrhocephalus taken 12/15/24 northwest of Chicago. #fungifriends

Is it spring yet???

hahahaahhaa

Chocolate tube slime mold, like milk chocolate colored tubes on black hairs, growing on wood with white rot. Some orange fall leaves are in an unfocused background.

Mmm. Spore dog on a stick. Chocolate tube slime mold (Stemonitis sp.) in Wisconsin, last October. #fungifriends

I hate bringing them home to wash. I like eating em right in the woods like a bear.

wet boyz

Woodsy types: will the bird flu change your foraging habits this summer? Eating black raspberries right off the bush is my favorite thing but this year... 😬

felt kinda like a loofa too! The spines are... spiny.

Round-ish, dark brown puffball mushroom covered in bristly white spines, growing in sandy soil, with green leaves in the background.

Don't you wanna scrub your dishes with it? Spiny puffball (Lycoperdon echinatum), snapped 7/26/23 in Kankakee, IL. #fungifriends

It's technically edible! Wonder if anyone has pickled it?

some kind of cool cup fungus, maybe in the genus Peziza. You can blow on these, and after a couple of seconds, spores will release from the cups and they look like smoke! It's so cool.

Cream-colored, ruffly jelly fungus growing on a log with a black background and dramatic, shadowed lighting.

This one's kind of spooky, right? Aren't you too spooked? Just found this going through oldies from 7/23. White jelly fungus (ductifera pululahuana), one of the most common fungi I see in the Chicago area. #fungifriends

dreamy!

I loooove them!!!

As usual I forget to tag #fungifriends because I'm a jabroni

A grouping of jelly fungus with yellow stipes and dark forest green caps growing in moss and pine litter.

A single jelly fungus with yellow stipe and dark forest green cap growing in moss and pine litter.

Chicken lips! Yes, CHICKEN LIPS. That is the common name for these little jelly guys. Leotia viscosa. Chicken lips!

Photos taken 9/7/24 in the lovely and mysterious Northwoods of Wisconsin.

Is it spring yet???