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Nature 
Mushroom Hunting
Photo Story: Mushroom Hunting
| Fall is a good time to look for mushrooms.
The leaves are off the understory plants. It usually rains enough
to make them decide to "bloom." Here are a few common mushrooms that
we've found in the fall growing in our watershed. Let us know if we're
wrong about a mushroom. Send us your mushroom pictures, with their
names, to publish. We'd also like your mushroom stories, and recipes!
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Angel Wings Pleurotus
porrigens
I found these small delicate mushrooms in early November.
They were growing on a fallen tree trunk. Angel Wings always grow
on the wood of conifers. Don't you think they look like Angel Wings?
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Eastern Stinkhorn
Phallus ravenelli
It really does stink! Of course, that depends on what
you call stinky! At least your nose can tell when it's growing
nearby. I found these in mid-October on a garden path made of sawdust.
According to the Peterson Field Guide, it likes woody hardwood
debris and sawdust.
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Honey Mushroom
Armillaria mellea
I found this cluster in early November near Bryant
Creek. It was growing on an old road in the woods. There were other
clusters growing out of stumps nearby.
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Vase Puffball
Bovista Pila
I found this growing by itself. It was on a garden
path in early November. I opened it to look at the spongy interior.
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Identification and information from Mushrooms, Peterson
Field Guide, Kent H. McKnight/Vera B. McKnight, Houghton Mifflin Co.,
Boston, New York, 1987. Text and photos by Peter Callaway.
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