Continuing our mission to document a season of flourishing mushrooms, we present Mushrooms on a Stump, part of an enormous colony growing on a stump in Frick Park.
Camera: Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z3.
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Mushrooms on a Stump, Frick Park
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Still More Mushrooms
Taking advantage of the damp weather, mushrooms have popped up everywhere. Here are a few more from Mount Lebanon and Scott Township. Once again, Father Pitt makes no serious attempt to identify them, and welcomes identifications in the comments.
Cameras: Olympus E-20n, Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z3.
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Tree-Bark Ecosystem
An entire ecosystem depends on the bark of this one tree in Mount Lebanon: moss, lichens, a bug, and tiny mushrooms. How tiny are they? Below is a left index finger for scale.
Camera: Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z3, showing off its impressive macro capability. These pictures came straight from the camera, with no cropping or editing. This is where old Pa Pitt mentions once again that he bought this camera for 99¢.
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Mushrooms
These look to Father Pitt like Porcini or Penny-Buns (Boletus edulis). But he is not a mushroom expert. If they turn out to be Death Caps or Doom Shrooms, you have only yourself to blame if you ignored his warning: Don’t eat mushrooms unless you know with absolute certainty that they don’t want to kill you.
Camera: Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z3.
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Still More Mushrooms
Everyone loves the mushrooms, it seems. So here are some more. The weather has been very kind to mushrooms lately, and we found all these within a very small area. Father Pitt is not going to try to identify them, so if any readers happen to know their mushrooms, comments would be much appreciated.
Camera: Konica-Minolta DiMAGE Z3.
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A Toadstool
Normally Father Pitt calls them “mushrooms,” but this one, fresh out of the ground, looked so much like a storybook toadstool that one expected to see a slightly grumpy fairy sitting under it. This is almost certainly the same species as the Russula mushrooms we featured earlier, since it grew in the same patch of shady lawn.
Camera: Konica-Minolta DiMAGE Z3.
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Mushrooms
It has been good weather for mushrooms. These extraordinarily fugitive little mushrooms pop up overnight and are completely withered by afternoon. Father Pitt believes that they are Parasola plicatilis, but any mushroom-lover is invited to correct his identification.
Camera: Canon PowerShot S45.
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Mushrooms
In spite of the difference in color, these two very decorative mushrooms appear to be the same species; they were both growing in the same shaded lawn in Mount Lebanon in the middle of June. They are almost certainly a species of Russula, and perhaps Russula emetica; but Father Pitt is not at all sure that the exact species can be identified from a photograph. Any mushroom expert is invited to correct his identification.
Camera: Konica-Minolta DiMAGE Z3.
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More Orange Mushrooms
Identified as Mycena leaiana, until someone tells Father Pitt otherwise. They were growing along the Trillium Trail in Fox Chapel.
Camera: Konica-Minolta DiMAGE Z3.
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Orange Mushrooms
Old Pa Pitt is not a mushroom expert. He believes these to be Mycena leaiana, but any correspondent is invited to correct (or confirm) his identification. The ones below are a little past their prime, but still decorative.
Camera: Konica-Minolta DiMAGE Z3.
