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I did a little searching of websites to help identify some of these fungi. One of the most helpful websites is here. You can click on the pictures to enlarge them.
This is growing between some granite rocks I have surrounding my herb garden. I think it is a hemlock polypore. It is as hard as the rocks around it.
I was unable to identify this one so I call it a brainshroom. Doesn't is look like a brain? There are several of these growing in my herb garden. This one is the largest measuring ten inches in diameter.I think the next type of fungus is maybe jack o' lantern. While it is not orange like the ones in the pictures at the website, the shape and clustering is very similar. This is what it looks like one day.
The next day it explodes and looks like this.
Then it looks like this the next day. It reminds me of a jack o' lantern that was left on the front porch too long. I think it looks more like something one of our dogs left in our yard. 
Speaking of dogs... Our dog, Quade, alerted me to this lurking in our yard. I spied it while looking out the dining room window to see why he was barking.
This trio of toadstools is tucked in deep crevice in one of our trees. The third one is hiding behind these. I could not get a picture of it without climbing a ladder. The crevice is six feet off the ground.
Here is an up close and personal look at the underside. The black things are large gnat like insects.While not as lovely as the flowers growing in my gardens, fungus intrigues me.
3 comments:
Those are fascinating fungi!!! I think fungi are very difficult to identify. We get a bright orange one on the edge of the golf course behind our house - - - and I've even used my Fungi Key at school to try to identify it, to no avail.
I don't think your ones that you thought were Jack-o-lanterns are big or orange enough. In that second picture they remind me of chantrels - - - though I'd never try to EAT a wild mushroom as I'd be sure to have a really poisonous one and die.
Really cool post - - - thanks for sharing.
Curious aren't they? Mushrooms are so interesting and so many different kinds keep popping up, even in the trees. I love the photo in your tree. Very nice!
I come from a very long line of mushroom hunters and eaters but I don't trust myself to pick the good ones. It's too big of a chance. I, like you, just take pictures of them.
So glad I found this post! There is some funky fungus growing on the steps going out to our pool. It was kind of freaking me out! Now thanks to you I can go figure out what the heck it is!
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