Mushroom Monday - Fall Finds in Missouri

Here are a few fall finds from Missouri for #mushroommonday

Here is a common one I see all the time Trametes versicolor. I haven't seen one this orange yet before though. Up in Illinois I usually find brown and blue ones, Missouri must have orange ones.

Speaking of orange mushrooms here is Mycena leaiana aka orange mycena. These are pretty common in the midwest and are seen from late August all the way to November.

Here is yet another orange mushroom commonly called witch's butter with a Latin name of Dacrymyces palmatus. These are edible but they have no taste at all. I like to soak them in lime and spices then put them in soup.

Look at these beauties. They are almost blue in color at first glance.

Here's what their gills look like. I believe they are hare's foot ink caps with a Latin name of Coprinopsis lagopus. They are called hare's foot mushrooms because their pinning stage is a fuzzy ball similar to the shape of a rabbit's foot.

This one is a bit of a mystery. I'm pretty sure they are deer shield mushrooms but there are also many other mushrooms that look just like these.

Here is what their gills look like and they kind of have a pinkish hue similar to that of a deer mushroom aka Pluteus cervinus. These ones were a bit dried out so they aren't as identifiable as their younger versions. I could be wrong though maybe this is something completely different.

Now for another ink cap. This thing was huge about the size of an amanita.

After quite a bit of searching I narrowed it down to pleated ink cap but realized that that wasn't right at all because pleated ink caps are tiny compared to this. So I went back and looked at what older specimens of hare's foot ink caps look like and apparently they age into this translucent curled up state. That's the thing about mushrooms you learn something new all the time.

That's all for now, happy hunting before winter hits. Thanks for looking :-)