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Orange Pinwheels Galore

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Dutty Artz, Koishikawa Botanical Garden, Marasmius rotula, Orange pinwheel on December 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Orange pinwheels and a Dutty Artz shirt

So at this Koishikawa Botanical Gardens in Otsuka, Tokyo that I would go to, in early July 2009 where I took all the photos of the last post at, there was this delightful mushroom all about, hese orange flower-like funny-looking mushrooms that looked like they were made out of tissue paper! They were abundant and I fell in love with them, the Marasmius rotula, or rather whimsically called, the Orange pinwheel. I’ve tried painting them a few times since but can’t capture the look. I’m devoting a whole post to them cuz I love them. Apparently they are common on the east coast of North America too.

Marasmius siccus, Orange pinwheel

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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.