Here are some slimy mushrooms for #fungifriday by
It finally started raining here "April showers bring May flowers". The wood ear on this dead alder started expanding from all the rain.
I went out last week looking for mushrooms and found this dried up amber jelly roll.
Then yesterday after the rain I went to the same brand and now look at the amber jelly roll.
It absorbs water quickly and starts puffing up into weird shapes.
I decided to squish around in the mud looking for enough amber jelly roll to collect enough for a meal, probably for menudo soup.
I also found exidia glandulosa aka black jelly roll. This is also edible but it grows in smaller batches and sticks close to the branch making it harder to harvest. I typically don't harvest this.
At the end of the foray this was my batch of wood ear and amber jelly roll. Plenty for a good pot of soup. These are bland and tasteless mushrooms so I soak them in lemon and lime juice with salt and spices to add flavor.
Look at these tiny little mushrooms. These ones are almost as small as those tiny acorn mushrooms I found last year.
I peeled one off for scale, very tiny. This should be pretty difficult to identify.
Look at these weird mushrooms. I thought they might be something new and strange.
But when I flipped over the branch it turned out to be a turkey tail, just growing in a weird formation.
I found a different looking turkey tail type of mushroom. I'm not sure it's turkey tail though.
When I flipped it over it had a sort of magenta looking carpet texture to it.
I found some other ones nearby growing in a conglomerate formation. Maybe its a type of crust fungi, who knows...
Every now and then you find other weird things in the forest... I found this 1976 nickel stuck into the hollow of a tree branch... Maybe this is some sort of superstitious ritual someone performed out in the forest lol. I left the coin where it was.
