2.23.26 Sax-Zim Bog fungi, MN

 From 2.21.26-2.24.26 my father, sister and I drove from Chicago, IL to Sax-Zim Bog and back. This is from Day 3.

See all of the Sax-Zim Bog trip posts at the Sax-Zim Bog February 2026 page.


Fomes or fomentarius sp.
(at Winterberry Bog)

Top (at Winterberry Bog)

Unidentified polypores (at Winterberry Bog)

Unidentified polypore (at Winterberry Bog)

Inside dead tree (at Winterberry Bog)

Unidentified polypores (at Winterberry Bog)

Unidentified polypores, with a rotten specimen on the right (at Winterberry Bog)

Unidentified Polypore (at Winterberry Bog)

Top (at Winterberry Bog)

Pores (at Winterberry Bog)

Young unidentified polypore (at Winterberry Bog)

Young? unidentified polypore (at Winterberry Bog)

Unidentified polypores (at Winterberry Bog)

Tinder Conk (at Winterberry Bog)

Front (at Winterberry Bog)

With plants
(at Winterberry Bog)

Darker specimen (Roadside)

Side (Roadside)

Pore view, surrounded with lichen (Roadside)

Pore view
(at Winterberry Bog)

Either Chaga, an new species for me!, or a Bacterial Crown Gall
(Roadside)

Artist Brackets (at Winterberry Bog)

Many (at Winterberry Bog)

Abundant small mushrooms (at Winterberry Bog)

Abundant small mushrooms on a broken tree (at Winterberry Bog)

underside, showing toothed hymenium (at Winterberry Bog)

Small mushrooms, Common Greenshield (Leafy lichen), and Boreal Oakmoss (hair-like lichen)
(at Winterberry Bog)




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