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.
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- itty bitty Marasmius? coming out of little twigs and leaves
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- itty bitty Marasmius? coming out of little twigs and leaves
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- whoa, weird, I don’t know what the hell is going on here
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- close up of this weirdness
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- cute itty bitty mushrooms, the mosquitoes are eating me alive
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- not totally sure but is this Laetiporus sulphureus, the Chicken mushroom? Bright brilliant mushrroms low on a tree too. Amazing.
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- close up of what I think is the Laetiporus sulphureus, the Chicken mushroom
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- I think these are Marasmius oreades, the Fairy ring mushrooms. In Tokyo, yow!
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- 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.
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- The top side of what I’m guessing is a Dryad’s Polypore, Polypore squamosus? but I have no idea.
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- cute lil’ mushroom
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- some kinda varnishy shelfy conk
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- I have no idea but it looks like the Conocybe lactea, White Dunce caps in a book I’m looking at
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- slender tall yet very small delicate-looking mushroom
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- delicate little mushies. Marasmius of some sort? I have no idea.
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- Is this a White Cheese Polypore? Tyromyces chioneus? If so, I do love the name.
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- rotting boletus of some sort?
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- another view of the possibly rotting boletus of some sort
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- i think i have a picture of this one further up
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- now we have some gigantic Amanitas coming up, I have no idea what kind
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- big Amanitas coming up here
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- Here’s them big Amanitas
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- This one’s like an open umbrella. i want to crawl under it to hide from the mosquitoes that are EATING ME ALIVE.
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- shit that’s big
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- Here they are again if you haven’t had enough of them yet
