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A Walk In the Woods - A Look at Fungi - Page 2
 

Besides the shapes and the sizes of mushrooms, another factor is their growing habits.  Some grow singularly in isolated places (right) while others tend to favour the closeness of living in clumps and create large communities (below left).

One of the most common is the spreading group of fungi that can form huge patches as they struggle for the light and their place in the world (below right).

Questionable Stropharia
 
Questionable Stropharia, Stropharia ambigua
   
Bitter Polypore

Sulfur Tuft

Bitter Polypore, Jahnoporus hirtus
Sulfur Tuft, Naematoloma fasciculare
   
Toothed Jelly Fungus
Fried Chicken Mushroom
Toothed Jelly Fungus,
Pseudohydnum gelatinosum
Fried Chicken Mushroom,
Lyophyllum decastes
group
   
Honey Mushroom
You’ll find fungi in open areas among mosses (above left) or in the shade (above right), where certain species do extremely well.

Others lie in the protection of fallen trees (left).
Honey Mushroom, Armillaria mellea group
 
 
Varnished Conk  
They may be found growing on moss-covered fallen wood ...
Varnished Conk, Ganoderma lucidum
   
     
... or managing to somehow survive on the fallen trees covered with years of forest debris.
 
   
Fairy Fingers, Clavaria vermicularis 
     
Unknown Mushroom
These are growing in a fascinating manner out of the sides of a dead tree.
 

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