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Koishikawa Botanical Garden

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amanita, boletes, boletus, Chicken mushroom, conk, conks, Dryad’s Polypore, Fairy Ring mushrooms, Koishikawa Botanical Garden, Laetiporus sulphureus, Marasmius, Marasmius oreades, mushrooms, Mycena, Tokyo mushrooms, Tyromyces chioneus, White Cheese Polypore on December 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

sweet mystery mushrooms

I have so many pictures to load that I sometimes wonder why I’m doing this, starting yet another blog to keep up with. These pictures are on my facebook page but I can’t quite write the narrative on FB that I can do here. Endlessly go blah blah blah, y’know? Here I can link website to website from a blog versus my “private” photo pages on facebook. Plus there are so many mushroom photo websites that I thought I’d join the damn club and add more mushroom traffic to the world wide web. Ironically, the WWW is compared to mycelium in Paul Stamets talk on TED. But like I said before, this blog won’t be all about mushrooms, though right now it does feel that way. Anyhow, in Tokyo, we were living in a nabe called Otsuka. There is a fantastic huge park just a few miles walk away called Koishikawa Botanical Gardens, of Tokyo University. I go there a few times and the time I took the following photos, I was totally ravaged by mosquitoes. They would just, like, swarm all over the moment I stopped to take a photo. It was brutal, I was so unprepared, so a lot of these photos were taken under the attack of blood-thirsty mosquitoes. Keep that in mind.

: itty bitty Marasmius? coming out of little twigs and leaves

: itty bitty Marasmius? coming out of little twigs and leaves

: whoa, weird, I don’t know what the hell is going on here

: close up of this weirdness

: cute itty bitty mushrooms, the mosquitoes are eating me alive

: not totally sure but is this Laetiporus sulphureus, the Chicken mushroom? Bright brilliant mushrroms low on a tree too. Amazing.

: close up of what I think is the Laetiporus sulphureus, the Chicken mushroom

: I think these are Marasmius oreades, the Fairy ring mushrooms. In Tokyo, yow!

: Polypore underside, check out the pattern! My total guess is a Dryad’s Polypore, Polypore squamosus? but I have no idea. This being Japan and all.

: The top side of what I’m guessing is a Dryad’s Polypore, Polypore squamosus? but I have no idea.

: cute lil’ mushroom

: some kinda varnishy shelfy conk

: I have no idea but it looks like the Conocybe lactea, White Dunce caps in a book I’m looking at

: slender tall yet very small delicate-looking mushroom

: delicate little mushies. Marasmius of some sort? I have no idea.

: Is this a White Cheese Polypore? Tyromyces chioneus? If so, I do love the name.

: rotting boletus of some sort?

: another view of the possibly rotting boletus of some sort

: i think i have a picture of this one further up

: now we have some gigantic Amanitas coming up, I have no idea what kind

: big Amanitas coming up here

: Here’s them big Amanitas

: This one’s like an open umbrella. i want to crawl under it to hide from the mosquitoes that are EATING ME ALIVE.

: shit that’s big

: Here they are again if you haven’t had enough of them yet

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National Park for Nature Study in Shinagawa-Ku

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amanita, artist's conk, boletes, boletus, Coltricia cinnamomea, Coprinus plicatilis, dragonfly, Earth tongue, Ganoderma australe, Ganoderma lucidum, Golden Waxy Cap, Helvella macropus, Hygrocybe flavescens, Japanese Umbrella Inky, mushrooms, National Park for Nature Study, Shinagawa-Ku, Shiny Cinnamon Polypore on December 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

a monument of a mushroom in a very small park

In late June 2009, the next park I went to in Tokyo was the National Park for Nature Study in Shinagawa-Ku near the Meguro station. To call this park such a name is pushing it a bit. It’s pretty small and tight and like the others, quite cultivated and manicured, but boy was there a variety of mushrooms, some strange ones at that, in such a small acreage. I was walking step by step with my eyes to the ground looking for these treasures which was kinda funny because there were so many people trying to walk the winding tight path that I was creeping along on slowly. Here are some photos of the mushrooms at this park. Click on whatever you want to see bigger.

: I have no clue, National Park for Nature Study, Shinagawa-Ku, Tokyo Japan, late June 2009

: Ganoderma lucidum?, Ling Chih? Shinagawa-Ku, Tokyo Japan, late June 2009

: some kinda Amanita with a really nice cup!

: I have no clue

: I have no clue but it’s a big beautiful mushroom with a white fringy margine

: close up of the one before

: some kind of Earth tongue? gosh I have no idea what it is but it’s cool looking

: these cups might be Helvella macropus. but I don’t know. they were all over but easy to miss.

: close up of these cups (Helvella macropus?)

: so look at this boletus-looking thing! in a city park!

: little brown-grey mushrooms, no clue what they are

: close up of little brown-grey mushrooms, no clue what they are

: whoa! thick conk, is it an artist’s conk?

: this thing was huge, spanned a few feet across on the ground. i think Ganoderma australe?!

: Japanese Umbrella Inky?, Coprinus plicatilis? not sure, but delicate and cute

: strange tubular fungus thingies

: there’s that dark red/brown mushroom again

: look! is this another boletus-like thing in the city park? unbelievable

: whoa, I do believe this is a fungus. looks like styrofoam or insulation.

: big amazing mushroom with a sweeping skirt! some kind of Agaricus?

: big mushroom coming out of the concrete!

: whoa what the heck? is this another kind of Earth tongue? I have no idea but they’re intriguing.

: my guess is that this is Coltreia something. Maybe Coltricia cinnamomea, Shiny Cinnamon Polypore.

Okay, these are some of my favorites from this park:

This is the Ganoderma lucidum?, Ling Chih?. It is also called Reishi. If this mushroom is indeed that, it is brewed as Chinese and Japanese medicinal tea for longevity. I happen to be drinking some right now. Thought I'd give it a try, y'know.

This dragonfly was the biggest dragonfly I'd ever seen.

I love this pose of the Japanese Umbrella Inky, Coprinus plicatilis, if that is indeed what it is. Like I said, I love inky caps.

Golden Waxy Cap, Hygrocybe flavescens. This was a small little golden nugget of a mushroom!

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