Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Fungi Hunting is Fun

It's mid October and there are still bursts of interesting and beautiful fungi growing out of oak tree roots. Here's a beautiful pinkish orange. It grows bigger by the day! The closest Ican come to identifying it in my Mushrooms of North America book is Polyporus Sulphureus but they say it should be sulphur-yellow. "Growing on a wide variety of hardwoods commonly in late summer and fall, widely distributed." Edible, but I think I'll pass and just admire it. Lots to do on Cloud 9 Farm. Come and hunt fungi on my 200 acres.