Here are a few fungi finds from this week for #fungifriday by @ewkaw
First is some false turkeytail completely infesting a broken branch.
Stereum ostrea is often referred to as tremella lunch box. Tremella is another fungi that is a type of jelly fungi that is edible. If you find false turkeytail you can sometimes find the edible tremella fungi like white cloud, witch's butter or amber jelly roll parasitizing it.
As usual the mycenas were out in force after the fall rains.
Technically these are edible but they taste pretty bad and cook down to nothing so no one bother's eating them. Slugs really love munching on them though.
Now for an unidentified pillowy white mushroom.
I flipped one over to look at the gills and they are nice and symmetrical without a veil or stem ring. So that eliminates these as being amanitas. The formation they were growing in reminds me of honey mushrooms but honey mushrooms aren't white and have a stem ring. I cut the gills to see if they were milk caps of some kind but they didn't bleed so this one must be some obscure species that looks like many other mushrooms... To hard to ID for now.
Here's a hare's foot ink cap aka Coprinopsis lagopus.
These are technically edible as well but they aren't very good to cook with as they disintegrate. This one was about to melt into nothingness but the rain puffed it up one more time before it turns into black dust.
Now for an unidentified amanita emerging from the forest floor.
Perhaps it will eventually turn into these guys. I haven't identified these yet either but they were all over the ground bursting up from underneath the fall leaves. I doubt they are edible.
That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)