October 13, 2017

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Morning glories.

We've been looking at two cream-colored mushrooms on a stump.

Here is the whole stump, with a whole lotta fungi going on.....  The ones we've been watching are in the lower right of this image.

That little spider was on the top one of these.

I don't know if all of the growth on this stump is different sorts of fungus, or if it's different stages of life for one sort, or some combination of same and different......

I don't remember seeing anything like this fuzzy-looking brownish stuff before it showed up here.  This is above and to the left of the big cream-colored ones in the first fungus image in this post, taken from a position 90 degrees to the left of where I was standing when I took that image of the whole stump.  (Maple seed for scale.)

Closer crop from the upper left quadrant of the above.

Another patch of the stuff above, with small crumbly paler bits, and then some shelf-fungus-looking stuff in the upper left.  (Maple seeds for scale....)

Closer crop of the above.

A closer look at the shelf-fungus-looking bits.

Here's something that looks different from anything else in this post.  It's above the big patch of brownish stuff in the first fungus pic in this post.  This pic was taken from a position 90 degrees left of where I stood to capture the whole stump.

This looks spongey........

A bit farther in the easterly direction we were walking.  The stump we've been looking at is at the top of the next image.

I wonder if the mushrooms in the lower right are growing from part of the tree that left the stump.  Most of the big trees in our neighborhood are maples, which tend to have shallow roots.  Even some of their big roots are above or very near the surface of the soil.......

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