Season Hunt Challenge - Mushrooms (Week 3)

Usually if I want to find mushrooms I wouldn't see any, even if they were right under my nose.

Mushrooms
^{Season Hunt - Week 3}

Barbara Orenya | Hive account@barbara-orenya is hosting a new Challenge:

Season Hunt

Every week there will be a new theme announced which suits to the actual season. It is still Autumn and this week's theme is: We are chasing Mushrooms (https://ecency.com/hive-190931/@barbara-orenya/season-hunt-challenge-week-3)

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^{I have no idea what kind of mushrooms these are, but the yellow looked nice on the dark wood.}

This week's hunt has given me the opportunity to take my macro lens with me on a walk once again, although for the first photos I have even needed the long 100-400mm lens, which I have also had with me, just in case ;)

As said in the beginning, I usually don't see mushrooms, even when they are right under my nose, and it was just like that when I began my search on last Saturday: I didn't see any mushrooms until I saw this Fomitopsis betulina, commonly known as the birch polypore, birch bracket or razor strop (Wikipedia) on a birch tree right at the lake shore. For these photos I needed the long lens, mentioned above.

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From the moment I have seen these first mushrooms, there were mushrooms suddenly everywhere, just as if they all had been waiting till the first one shows up 😃

I have researched a bit and this next mushroom on the mossy branches at the lake shore might be a Ganoderma applanatum which is also known as artist's bracket, artist's conk, artist's fungus or bear bread (Wikipedia) but I haven't found out more about it, so I am not sure.

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If you click on the image it will open in full size in a new window or tab. Then you can see a few more mushrooms of different kinds growing on these branches.

Unfortunatelly, the system doesn't allow to upload the completely full sized images which are well over the allowed 6 or 7 megabytes or so. So I have to downsize them and I believe that the system also compresses the images because they often don't look as sharp as my original photos do.

The next mushrooms were growing on fallen trees and these are the mushrooms I see most in the woods because sometimes they are really huge.
The name of these mushrooms is Fomes fomentarius, commonly known as the tinder fungus, false tinder fungus, hoof fungus, tinder conk, tinder polypore or ice man fungus (Wikipedia).

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I would like to know why they are called ice man fungus.

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A little later I found this funny looking thing on a rotten tree trunk and didn't know what it might be, but soon I saw that it must be a rotten shriveled mushroom like the other ones I found on the same trunk, but which were still looking quite good, at least compared to this one 😉

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So, these now are the better looking fellows of the above mushroom - they were somehow really cool looking little mushrooms growing through the tree bark, but I haven't found out their name.

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Just as I don't know what the yellow mushrooms are which I showed in the beginning of this post, I have no idea how these little white mushrooms will look like when they are grown up ... if they are mushrooms at all.
Or are they eggs of the green insect you can see on the top left of the trunk. It looks like a green aphid, but I can't remember to ever have seen a single aphid on a tree trunk - maybe it's a hermit aphid 🤣

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The next mushrooms were also growing on fallen and mossy tree trunks, some looked really nice and cozy, sitting comfortably in the soft green moss.

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The Forest

The forest is the town of trees
Where they live quite at their ease,
With their neighbors at their side
Just as we in cities wide.

^{by Annette Wynne}

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Wikipedia says, these are Trametes versicolor, also known as Coriolus versicolor and Polyporus versicolor, a common polypore mushroom found throughout the world (Wikipedia).

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Now you have finally reached the end of this post😃
I was glad to find some time inbetween to edit and upload the photos and to finalize this post today, otherwise I wouldn't have known what to do with the photos, maybe wait till next year 😎

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All photos were taken with the Canon EOS R and one of these lenses: Canon RF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM, Canon RF 70-200mm f/4 L IS USM, Canon EF 16-35mm 1:4 L IS USM, Canon EF 50mm 1:1.8 L STM, SIGMA 105mm 1:2,8 DG MACRO HSM, Sigma 100-400mm f/5-6,3 DG OS HSM C.
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