8.6.26 Oak Woods Cemetery (plants & fungi), Chicago, IL

White, maroon, rusty-orange, deep reddish rusty, gray, and reddish-purplish growths on maple wood

I wonder what's going on here! The sunset orangey stuff looks like stains, while the black, purplish red, and. white stuff looks like the same thing. There's powdery stuff on top of it, but is that the same growth, secretions, or parasites. Also, there's some black-speckled whitish-gray stuff in the upper left

So cool

The dark red and black seemingly is rotted wood, while the white stuff on top is the fungus causing it. Is the white stuff on the yellow-orange wood the same fungus or not?

So amazing

And here's some green stuff

Mustard Yellow Polypore

While Mustard Yellow Polypore is usually a big milk-chocolate brown conk with a yellowish-orangey growing edge. Because these are so young, there is no older brown parts, just the yellowish-orangey growing edge

Whorled Milkweed. While the familiar milkweeds have broad or narrow flat leaves and bundles or platforms of little flowers, Whorled milkweed looks more like a baby conifer with a handful of tiny bleached-out milkweed flowers.