Friends of the Wild Flower Garden


A Seasonal Variety of Mushrooms

At Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden

A selection of mushrooms found in the Garden over a 13 month period.

small fragile 1
Oct. 4, 2008. Woodland Garden, small fragile mushrooms on a decaying log.
Small Orange
August 26, 2009, Woodland Garden on a decaying log.
Small orange 2
Oct. 4, 2008. Woodland Garden, massses of these on a decaying log.
Small open
August 27, 2009. Woodland Garden, small open-face ground mushroom.
Upper west
Sept. 17, 2009, Upland Garden, upper west loop trail. Ground mushroom.
Small purple
August 26, 2009, Avery Birding Terrace, ground mushroom.
Puffball
Pear-shaped Puffball. Sept. 22, 2008, Woodland Garden, common and abundant puffball growing in masses on decaying deciduous stumps and logs on a decaying stump.
small turkey tail
August 26, 2009, Woodland Garden, on a decaying stump
turkey tail
Turkey-tail Type. Oct. 13, 2009, Woodland Garden, large number on decaying twigs.
Shelf on Buckeye
Shelf Mushroom, Sept. 17, 2009, Woodland Garden on an Ohio Buckeye.
ground one
Polypore. August 13, 2009, Fern Glen, on decayed wood.
Polypore
Polypore. Sept. 17, 2009, Woodland Garden, on decaying log.
small polypore
Oct. 13, 2009, Woodland Garden, grouping of turkey tail like mushrooms on a decaying log following the first snow of the season.
Stump 3
July 16, 2009, Fern Glen, large orange grouping on a decaying stump following the first snow.
stump 2
May 3, 2009, Woodland Garden, on decaying wood.
stump 1
May 3, 2009, Woodland Garden on a decaying log.
White fungus
White Slime. August 26, 2009. Woodland Garden, on a decaying log.
Orange Plteus
Golden Granular Pluteus
Pluteus aurantiorugosus
Sept. 22, 2008, on a tree in the Woodland Garden.