The beautiful illinois canyon!
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Here is the entire completed thread with all my mushroom pics from #IllinoisCanyon at #StarvedRock State Park in Illinois.
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Fan-shaped mushrooms with bands of color on a log

Fan-shaped mushrooms with bands of color on a log

To end this thread on our hike into the #IllinoisCanyon at #StarvedRock State Park, here are the Turkey Tails (Trametes versicolor). There were lots and lots of Turkey Tails.
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A yellow blob on a log. There is a turkey tail on the left.

A white blobby, cauliflower-ish mushroom on a log.

Here are a couple of fungi we found that I have no idea what they are. The yellow one might be Dog Vomit slime. Any help would be appreciated.
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Scaly mushrooms clustered on a log

Close up of scaly mushrooms clustered on a log

Some older mushrooms with scaly caps

Some older mushrooms with scaly caps

In one patch of rotting logs and soil, there was the same type of mushrooms in various states of development.
I think they might be Scaly Inky Caps (Coprinopsis variegata).
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Shelf polypores on a log. They look like pancakes.

Shelf polypore with a very thick white stem on rotting wood.

Artist's Bracket (Ganoderma applanatum)?
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Red globules squished together.

Wolf's milk slime (Lycogala epidendrum)?
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On a log is a large pale cup mushroom in the center of the photo. Below it are several much smaller red, flat, and round mushrooms with 'eyelashes' around their periphery

More #fungi from our hike in #IllinoisCanyon earlier this week with two cups on the same log:
- Hairy Fairy Cup (Humaria hemisphaerica) the larger pale white cup
- Eyelash Cups (Scutellinia scutellata) multiple red cups below it
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Wrinkly pale to brown fungi on a log.

Wood ear (Auricularia americana)?
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White textured slime mold on a log.

The other fungi on the log is probably a slime mold--possibly the tapioca slime mold (Brefeldia maxima).
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Mature Golden Oyster mushrooms

More developed Golden Oyster mushrooms showing the gills extending onto the stems.

Young Golden Oyster mushrooms showing the dimple in the middle of the cap.

Young Golden Oyster mushrooms

The yellow mushrooms on the tree seem to be Golden Oysters (Pleurotus citrinopileatus) in various stages of development. #StarvedRock #IllinoisCanyon #Fungi #MushroomTwitter @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social