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Beautiful tiny 緑青 blue called Green stain Fungus
Chlorociboria aeruginascens or aeruginosa

bright yellow ビョウタケ Bisporella citrina

Can you believe this lucky log? 

※ They were found on Sep 2011 at MI

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We parked our car aside 

Huge fairy rings with white mushrooms everywhere  !

The shape is quite similar
as blewit - pure white blewit











The couple who gave me a rideshare tried to pick all of them
even we did not know the edibility at that time ...
They looked very very fun to do, so that I could not stop them ......
It was the first time for them to come mushroom foray, they said .........

線路は続くよどこまでも　な気分

I've been working on the railroad
All the live long day

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Coral ? Is Pg under the sea ??

gregariously















Ramaria sp.

could be Ramaria fennica (bitter coral mushroom)




I should have tasted it

to know whether it is bitter or not











"The official Ramaria fennica is a European species that grows under conifers and features olive yellow upper branches; Ramaria fumigata is an eastern North American species that grows under hardwoods and features branches that are purplish overall (before the spores mature)" by MushroomExpert.com

ram-: branch
fenn-: Finland

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Happy new year !

It is bigger than Pg !

Phil showed us this cluster of Grifola frondosa (Hen of the Woods)

He also cooked Hen of the Woods delicious full-of-umami soup which were served at the pot-luck

lavender gray when young, becoming dirty whitish to yellowish

with 2-4 angular pores per mm; tubes to 5 mm deep

more description in Mushroomexpert.com

my new year's mushroom resolution 2012, in random order

would like to foray w/ David Arora, get his sign on our MD and take pictures w/ Pg

would like to foray w/ Noah Siegel

mushroom banquet

visit various mushroom societies in US, get a T-shirt

find giant puffballs hopefully bigger than Pg, take pictures, cook and taste

teach Pg to find truffle

grifola: braided fungus

frond-: leaf, frond

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The Genus Laccaria

could be Laccaria laccata
 - Lackluster Laccaria

Lackluster  【形】活気のない、元気のない、艶のない、パッとしない

edible, but careful for identification








酷い名前を付けられたね、、、可愛いのに

"It is so vexingly variable in the size", MD says

Yes it is true!













lacc- : paint

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Entoloma abortivum - Aborted Entoloma

きのこ of きのこ

Parasitic on species of Armillaria

widely distributed east of the Rocky Mountains

Dr. Jeckyll with pink spores (left) and Mr. Hyde (right)

無敵Honeyャ
天敵Pink Entoloma也ョ

お仕置きョ














Entoloma abortivum is the parasite (left) and Armillaria mellea the victim (right)

They are known to be edible

but their appearances, especially Mr. Hyde, did not stimulate my appetite









A interesting article in MushroomExpert.com

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Armillaria mellea - honey mushroom

They are pathogenic and parasitic on the wood of hardwoods


So, if you find them in your yard, lets pick them up and not spread their spores








We find them in woods

Just beautiful




秋の新作

木洩れ陽色の

ベレー帽









I regret that I forgot my SLR in LA

My smartphone helps me taking pictures though

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As soon as we arrive the conference site,

Pg asks me
これ なあに ?　ぬめぬめ～















Wow!  Tons of slippery mushrooms with yellow sponge are by the parking lot

Suillus luteus (Slippery Jack)

The sponge is removed and saute with butter

Amazing !

dense butyraceous mushroom taste !!

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MMHC Fungus Fest 2011
September 23 - 25

イベント盛りだくさん
The World‘s Greatest Pot-Luck と食後のWhite Elephant Auctionが楽しみ!






















Schedule of events:

FRIDAY – September 23
2:00 pm - Hunt on grounds (meet at River Hawk Lodge at end of the road)
6:30 pm - Dinner ($6.00) Dearborn Smoked Ham, Stuffed Cabbage, Broccoli beef, Bacon Wrapped Mini Wiener, Potato Salad, Croissants, Cookies, Milk & Coffee
7:45 pm - Growing Mushrooms by Chris Wright of Easy Grow Mushrooms

SATURDAY – September 24
7:00 am - Breakfast - ($2.00 donation) Biscuits & Gravy, Blueberry Hot Cakes, Scrambled Eggs, Ham, Sweet Rolls, Orange Juice, Coffee, Milk
9:15 and 9:30 am - Forays (hunts)
9:15 am - Beginner‘s session (slideshows about mushrooms and mushroom identification)
10:30 am - Beginner‘s hunt at Powers Beach
12:00 pm - Lunch (bring your own, refrigeration available)
1:00 pm - Foray
3:00 to 4:30 pm - Mushroom Identification
4:30 pm - John Pischke III presentation
6:00 pm - The World‘s Greatest Pot-Luck (refrigeration available)
7:30 pm - White Elephant Auction. Bring mushroom kitsch, tchotchkes, books, dried mushrooms etc. for us to sell

SUNDAY – September 25
7:00 am - Breakfast - ($2.00 donation) Biscuits & Gravy, Blueberry Hot Cakes, Scrambled Eggs, Ham, Sweet Rolls, Orange Juice, Coffee, Milk
8:30 am - Clean up, review of specimens and disposal of collections
10:00 am - Survivors morning hunt

Ann Arbor Arboretum (3)

On 9/23/11, MI
time goes by
I met them about 3 months ago...

Beautiful slimy Pink-cap Princesses
in woods

















Did you know? Pg's most favorite color is pink.

"It is closest to the Russula gracilis group, but hard to tell without seeing the specimens and their spores, etc.  The Audubon Guide states that they are only in the east, but Mushrooms Demystified lists them in California, on P.99 in the latest edition."  Sandy

Hum! I see

Thank you very much Sandy for the identification !!

I had never seen pink viscid cap Russula
in SoCal

so excited











gracil-: gracile (slender, thin)