Fungi Friday - This Week's Sightings

Here are a few fungi sightings from this week for this #fungifriday

This bunch of mushrooms appears to be Amanita muscaria var. guessowii. I'm guessing they started out then it got dry and they never fully bloomed. They could also be a strangely colored scaled ink cap but I doubt it.

It got cold and rainy again and a perfect temperature for more morels. Sadly I found none but I did find some large dryad's saddles.

At this size they are inedible because they are tough as a sponge.

Here is a baby dryad's saddle still to small to harvest. So you kind of have to find one in between the two sizes if you're going to eat one.

Here is an unusual mushroom called Trametes betulina or Gilled Polypore. At first glance the gills make you think they are an oyster mushroom or some other mock oyster. But in reality they are a polypore that looks like a turkeytail on top. They also have medicinal properties like turkeytail where you can make tinctures from them to get anticancer and tumor medicinals from them.