Hello everyone! I'm back again to share my finds from another weekend walk through the woods of western Michigan, USA. This weekend was particularly humid and muggy, which made this walk quite the sweaty and mosquito-filled excursion. That being said, I was able to find plenty of beautiful fungi tucked away in the forest understory.
For this walk, I followed a small and winding tributary of the Grand River called Sand Creek. While there were many familiar species, such as the Frost's and Russel's Boletes with their intricately reticulated stems, I also came across a few that were brand new to my eye. More specifically, this was the first time that I have come across both the Cornflower Bolete (Gyroporus cyanescens), a shaggy-capped bolete that bruises blue instantaneously after being cut, as well as the Yellow-tipped Coral Fungus (Ramaria formosa), a salmon-pink species that looks as if it would be more at home in a tropical reef than the interior hardwood forests of North America.
Apart from my fungal friends, I also captured a few photos of insects and plants, including a beetle species known as the Forked Fungus Beetle on the underside of a mature Artist's Bracket (Ganoderma applanatum). Though I did not know it at the time, I later found that this prehistoric-looking species relies on wood-decaying species such as Ganoderma applanatum, Ganoderma tsugae, and Ganoderma lucidum for all stages of its life-cycle. Male and female members of this sexually dimorphic species can distinguished from one another based on the presence of horns on males that are used to compete for access to females.
As always, feel free to offer your suggestions if you believe that I have misidentified any of the species shown below!
FUNGI:
Artist's Bracket (Ganoderma applanatum):
Two-colored Bolete (Baorangia bicolor):
Chestnut Bolete (Gyroporus castaneus):
Violet-toothed Polypore (Trichaptum biforme):
Red Chanterelle (Cantharellus cinnabarinus):
Eastern North American Destroying Angel (Amanita bisporigera):
Summer Oyster Mushroom (Pleurotus pulmonarius):
Bitter Bolete (Tylopilus felleus):
Velvet Tooth (Hydnellum spongiosipes):
Elegant Polypore (Cerioporus varius):
Hygrophorous Milkcap (Lactifluus hygrophoroides):
Beech Rooter (Oudemansiella furfuracea):
Russell's Bolete (Aureoboletus russellii):
Frost's Bolete (Exsudoporus frostii):
Yellow American Blusher (Amanita flavorubens):
Old-Man-of-the-Woods (Strobilomyces strobilaceus):
Smoothish-stemmed Bolete (Hemileccinum subglabripes):
Blue-green Cracking Russula (Russula parvovirescens):
Common Puffball (Lycoperdon perlatum):
Cornflower Bolete (Gyroporus cyanescens):
Velvet-footed Pax (Tapinella atrotomentosa):
Oak Mazegill (Daedalea quercina):
Yellow-tipped Coral Fungus (Ramaria formosa):
Reddish Brown Bitter Bolete (Tylopilus rubrobrunneus):
Golden Oyster Mushroom (Pleurotus citrinopileatus):
Crown-tipped Coral Fungus (Artomyces pyxidatus):
INSECTS:
Forked Fungus Beetle (Bolitotherus cornutus):
Gold-marked Thread-waisted Wasp (Eremnophila aureonotata):
Genus Bombus:
Genus Panorpa:
PLANTS:
Ghost Pipes (Monotropa uniflora):
Red Baneberry (Actaea rubra):
Spotted Joe-Pye Weed (Eutrochium maculatum):
Silky Dogwood (Cornus amomum):
Solomon's Plume (Maianthemum racemosum):
Pale Jewelweed (Impatiens pallida):
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