3.5.26 Hegewisch Marsh Park mushrooms, Chicago, IL

 


Lumpy Bracket

Lumpy Brackets get their green color from algae that grow on them. Because I took this photo right after I rained, the moisture-loving algae became especially green and prosperous.

Crowded Parchment and dew-covered seed head

Crowded Parchment

Thin-walled Maze Polypore

Thin-walled Maze Polypore

Thin-walled Maze Polypore (largest specimen I saw that day)

Unidentified Polypore

Trichaptum sp.

Trichaptum sp.

Trichaptum sp.

Splitgill Mushroom!!! New species for me!

Gills and lichen

From above

Top and lichen

Many

Unidentified mushroom

Unidentified mushroom

Unidentified polypore

Another unidentified mushroom

Oyster mushroom?

Oyster mushroom?

unidentified jelly fungus

Candleflame Lichen and unidentified fungus

Splitgill Mushroom


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