A selection of mushrooms found in the Garden over a 13 month period.
Oct. 4, 2008. Woodland Garden, small fragile mushrooms on a decaying log.August 26, 2009, Woodland Garden on a decaying log.Oct. 4, 2008. Woodland Garden, massses of these on a decaying log.August 27, 2009. Woodland Garden, small open-face ground mushroom.Sept. 17, 2009, Upland Garden, upper west loop trail. Ground mushroom.August 26, 2009, Avery Birding Terrace, ground mushroom.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.August 26, 2009, Woodland Garden, on a decaying stumpTurkey-tail Type. Oct. 13, 2009, Woodland Garden, large number on decaying twigs.Shelf Mushroom, Sept. 17, 2009, Woodland Garden on an Ohio Buckeye.Polypore. August 13, 2009, Fern Glen, on decayed wood.Polypore. Sept. 17, 2009, Woodland Garden, on decaying log.Oct. 13, 2009, Woodland Garden, grouping of turkey tail like mushrooms on a decaying log following the first snow of the season.July 16, 2009, Fern Glen, large orange grouping on a decaying stump following the first snow.May 3, 2009, Woodland Garden, on decaying wood.May 3, 2009, Woodland Garden on a decaying log.White Slime. August 26, 2009. Woodland Garden, on a decaying log.Golden Granular Pluteus Pluteus aurantiorugosus
Sept. 22, 2008, on a tree in the Woodland Garden.