A two-image photo collage of a shelf fungus growing on a log. The top image shows the upper surface of the fungus, which is pale white to light cream with a slightly uneven, matte texture and rounded lobes. The bottom image shows the underside, revealing a dense, maze-like pattern of small pores in shades of brown and tan, with sunlight and blurred tree branches in the background.

Went for the traditional First Day Hike today, and found the inaugural First Mushroom of 2026: Daedaleopsis confragosa, or the "thin-maze flat polypore."

It's REALLY old, but absolutely still worth noticing & appreciating.

#FungiFriends 🍄📸 #fungi #mushrooms #forager #DisabledForager #nature

2 mid-brown gelatinous mushrooms on a branch, behind them is a tan sleeve of a coat and in the background is a bunch of dead dry leaves from the ground outside.

On my walk yesterday, I found some 𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗷𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗴𝘂𝘀 — which has been reclassified in North America from Exidia recisa to Exidia crenata.

More details from Adam Haritan: learnyourland.com/amber-jelly-...

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Cluster of bright orange mushrooms growing on the side of a decaying tree trunk, surrounded by dark soil, rocks, and bark textures.

Close-up view from beneath orange mushrooms, showing their detailed gills and warm yellow-to-pink coloration against a bright sky background.

Found some pretty enokis (Flammulina velutipes) on my walk today.

#fungi #FungiFriends 🍄📸 #mushroom #nature #foraging #DisabledForager #Maryland

The underside of a mushroom on a branch with pink gills. In the background there is a blue sky with green leaves

Gillz for dayz! Found in central Maryland, USA.

#mushroom #fungi #nature #disabledForager #LittleThings #FungiFriends 🍄📸

The underside of four mushrooms, showing the light streaming through their gills. They are attached to a brown gray log and in the background is a light sky and sparse tree canopy.

Went out for a quick hike today, and found these beautiful mycena.

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A collage of two photos. On the right is a brown fuzzy, fan shaped mushroom with a white rim sitting on dead wood. On the left is a white page from a book. It is directions for how to prepare the mushroom for dyeing. The colors range from olive green to orange to coral to yellow to goldenrod.

Found a Dyer's Polypore today in Frederick MD. I'm letting it get bigger before I go back to harvest it. Then, it'll be my next dyeing experiment!

🍄📸 #FungiFriends #fungi #nature #dyeing #ArtsAndCrafts #ArtsAndSciences #foraging #DisabledForager

Three fan-shaped mushrooms that are cream and tan in color, coming off of a dead birch tree on the forest floor.

Washed and scrubbed fan mushrooms that are now white in color, and sitting on top of a red cutting board inside.

Slices of the white mushroom sitting on a red cutting board, which is on a brown wooden table outside on a balcony in the Sun.

🍄📸 #FungiFriends #nature #mushroom #DisabledForager #foraging Don't mind me — just forcing these slices of birch polypore to produce vitamin D2 before I dehydrate them for later use.

I did not place those acorn caps as you see them — just walked up on this Ganoderma lookin' like a frog head 🐸

And check out that red stipe!

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The collage at 5 pictures. First is a single chanterelle in the ground. Second is five chanterels on washed on a red cutting board. Third picture is washed and trimmed chanterelle's on a red cutting board, halved with a knife next to it. Next picture is those same chanterelle's in a frying pan with butter and garlic. Last one is those mushrooms on top of a pizza.

#FungiFriends 🍄 Finally got out for a foray, tho heat & humidity were BAD. We didn't find many chanterelles, but enough to add to our pizza.

I just love finding things on the ground in the woods, then making them into my dinner. Makes up for the recovery time I'll need now. #DisabledForager #forage

Off-white mushroom gills with feathery margins, attached to a brownish gray log.

📸🍄 Even when they're old & scruffy, I still love photographing split-gill mushrooms (Schizophyllum commune)!

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A troop of tan and reddish mushrooms growing out of the side of a log with green moss on it. There is lots of green moss and natural detritus in the background.

🍄 A lovely troop of Mycena sp. I found today while on a short hike up Gambrill State Park.

#Frederick #Maryland #FungiFriends #nature #DisabledForager #mushroom #mycolocy #fungi

Gelatinous brown mushrooms with the sun shining through them, growing out of a deadlog.

Small conical orange mushroom caps sticking out of the ground covered with wood sticks

Two tawny brown mushroom caps on the ground, surrounded by sticks and grass

A red half circle mushroom conk on the ground with dirt and moss and leaves around it

🍄 #MushroomMonday A few finds from this weekend: Auricularia americana ("wood ear"), Coprinellus micaceus ("mica cap"), Pluteus cervinus ("deer shield"), & Ganoderma sessile.

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Blue Virginia Blue bells in a forest of trees without leaves. The greenery under the blue bells is abundant and the sky in the background is slightly cloudy but bright blue.

Bright magenta redbud flowers on a branch of a tree. In the background is a blurred out green lawn and a bright blue sky.

Delicate white and purple five petaled flowers amidst green grass and some brown leaves. The sun is shining on it all.

Bluebells, redbuds, and springbeauties — Oh my!

#spring #nature #foraging #DisabledForager #edible

An old broken chair with dirt and sticks all over it in the middle of the woods. There is no foliage on the trees, and mostly dead leaves on the ground, but with a few pops of spring shoots. In the background is a long light green bridge over a river.

I went on a hike down the #C&O Canal today, near Lock 30. Lotsa trash.

It felt... ominous. #NPS #parks #DisabledForager #nature #litter #symbolism

Wood ear mushrooms on warm brown wood with a blurred winter sparse forest in the background and blue skies above it.

Friends, countrymen: Lend me your ears!👂

We FINALLY got outside this weekend, 52 days since the last time — waaay too long.

#WoodEar #FungiFriends #fungi #DisabledForager 🍄📸

Looking at a dehydrator from the top down. It is filled with thinly sliced orange and lemon slices. Next to the dehydrator is an intact orange. Sunlight is shining onto the citrus fruits.

Making solstice suns to decorate for winter ☀️

Except for the felted wood Amanita muscaria mushroom ornaments on our tree — our house will be decorated with natural, biodegradable decor this season.

#sustainability #nature #foraging #DisabledForager #solstice #winter #diy #decor

🍄 Happy (fungal) Thanksgiving! 🍄 Wine cap (Stropharia rugosoannulata) Late fall oyster (Sarcomyxa serotina) Bitter oyster (Panellus stipticus) 🍂🍃🍁🍂🍃🍁 Hairy oyster mushroom (Panus lecomtei) Witch's butter (Tremella mesenterica) Oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus) 🍂🍃🍁🍂🍃🍁 Chicken of the woods (Laetiporus sulphureus) Deer mushroom (Pluteus cervinus) Pheasant's back (Cerioporus squamosus) 🍂🍃🍁🍂🍃🍁 Hen of the woods (Grifola frondosa) Turkey tail (Trametes versicolor) Chicken fat mushroom (Suillus americanus) 🍂🍃🍁🍂🍃🍁 Marshmallow polypore (Spongipellis pachyodon) Honey mushroom (Armillaria mellea) Latte Bracket (Trametes lactinea) NOTE: This is meant to be punny. Not all fungi listed are edible. "Made by Rachel Kay"

𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸𝘀𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴! 🍂
I put together a punny Thanksgiving meal based on fungal common names. Enjoy!

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Here are some dessicated specimens of wolf's milk slime mold (Lycogala epidendrum) that I found yesterday.

I enjoy poking these w/ sticks. Puffball fungi are also fun to poke with sticks. 10/10, highly recommend.

#nature #foraging #NotAFungus #DisabledForager #PokeItWithAStick #hiking

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I try not to include anything unless I also know how to process it, but I admittedly have a lot of learning to do there. #foraging #survival #food #nature #DisabledForager

Cream-colored Ductifera pululahuana taking up most of the frame, growing on a stump.

Happy #MushroomMonday! Enjoy some fungal "snot" I found last week.

#DuctiferaPululahuana #mushroom #DisabledForager #FungiFriends #fungi 🍄

Collage of three pictures. On the top left is the bottom of a tree with a maitake mushroom tucked into the roots. On the top right is the cleaned my talking mushroom on a cutting board in front of my kitchen window at home. On the bottom is a plate with green beans in the background, and in the foreground is Jasmine rice topped with roasted maitake mushrooms and onions, finished with pecorino romano cheese and fresh parsley.

Roasted maitake mushroom with butter & olive oil, fresh rosemary, salt & pepper. Served over jasmine rice; finished with pecorino romano & fresh parsley from our garden.

How do you cook your "hens?"

#FungiFriends 🍄 #foraging #DisabledForager #fungi #mushroom #FindItEatIt #cooking #dinner

Orange chanterelle mushroom with a rosecomb mutation taking up most of the screen, sitting on a bed of green moss

Happy #MushroomMonday! 🍄

Here's a Cantharellus cibarius (chanterelle) with a rosecomb mutation I found yesterday.

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A forest floor littered with leaves and sticks. From the upper left corner to the lower right corner, a decomposing log is covered in green algae and strings of yellow dog vomit slime mold.

Please enjoy this exploratory dog vomit [slime mold]🦠

#SlimeMoldSunday #FuligoSeptica
#DisabledForager #nature

Two yellow mushrooms in mulch covered dirt in front of green rose stems with many thorns on them

Of you looking down at a terracotta colored pot with mulch on the top and an unruly rose bush with several pink roses on them. At their base is 2 yellow mushrooms.

Two yellow mushrooms in mulch covered dirt in front of green rose stems with many thorns on them

Enjoying these Leucocoprinus birnbaumii in my roses. 🍄🌹

Was too ill for a foray this week, so the mushrooms have come to visit with me on my balcony.

#FungiFriends #mushroom #fungi #DisabledForager #PlantPotDapperling

Here. Have some coral fungus for #FungiFriday. I found it last week, and I'm still admiring its beauty 🍄

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Found myself in ANOTHER pawpaw grove yesterday.

It's funny how people in this area just love them and can't find them — and I refuse to eat them, but often seem to be surrounded by them. #foraging #DisabledForager #nature #plants #native #fruit #tree

What a gorgeous wood ear I found today! 🍄

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Picture of a light brown cup fungus.

Been too bedbound recently to go on a foray, but It seems the mushrooms have come to me instead! Here's a little Peziza from the plant on my front stoop.

#FungiFriends #mushroom #fungi #DisabledForager 🍄

A cluster of orange mushrooms clinging to the bark of a tree.

Happy 1st #MushroomMonday on 2024! 🍄📸

#enoki #edible #fungi #mushroom #nature #DisabledForager

Piece of grey and brown deadwood vertically taking up most of the frame. On the right are two small, fan-shaped splitgill mushrooms.

A joyous #MushroomMonday to the community! 🍄📷

I offer you a lovely little Schizophyllum commune ("splitgill mushroom") from this past weekend. #FungiFriends #fungi #mushrooms #DisabledForager #nature #foray