Here are a few hot humid weather summer finds for this #mushroommonday
When it gets hot and humid in the midwest this white cloud fungus grows abundantly.
There are a few variants of this white cloud fungus and some variants are edible. This one however doesn't have quite enough texture to be able to use it in soups.
The Latin name is Ductifera pululahuana. Often you can find other edible jelly fungi when you see this stuff growing like Exidia recisa.
Here is an easy one to identify because of its long stem and goblet shaped cap.
These are called beach rooters and their Latin name is Hymenopellis radicata. They are edible but their stems are quite tough so you can only eat the caps.
Here is a coral fungi, most likely Ramaria stricta. I took a taste test to see if it was bitter or spicy and it was neither. If bitter then its not palatable to eat if spicy hot then it might be crown tipped coral where its edible. But this one tasted like nothing so it might be one of the coral fungi that can give you a stomach ache...
Here is something that looks like a mock oyster but is a bit smaller and more orange.
True oyster mushrooms have a stem with gills running down the stem and are much larger.
I suspect is might be Crepidotus crocophyllus as that is one of the orange versions of the crepidotus fungi family.
Here are some twig fungi, I'm not sure which specific one it is but there are quite a few tiny fungi species like this. Sometimes you can identify them by color or stem color or gill pattern but these ones were a bit too battered to see what type they were. My best guess would be Marasmiellus ramealis.
Now for some guttation after a rain. This is what fungi do when they absorb too much water. They form beads of liquid sometimes colored on the outside to get rid of all the extra water. This might be a couple of Meripilus Sumstinei aka black staining polypore. I should have ripped a chunk off to see if they stained black. You can kind of tell the one on the right is starting to turn darker. Sadly I probably missed out on foraging this edible mushroom.
That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)