184 Month: December 2020 (page 1 of 7)

Neighbour’s mushrooms

I found a group of these mushrooms on a lawn in my neighbourhood. Their cap is either cushion shaped or saucer shaped, with an indent in the centre….

Camouflaged mushrooms

These mushrooms were found camouflaged in the rock path between my house and our fence. They are not in the best shape and are quite dirty but seem…

Forest mushroom

This mushroom was found growing near a dead conifer log in the forest. It has a fibrillose, bell shaped cap with striate cap margins. Gills are crowded and…

Mushroom among clover

This mushroom was found in a neighbors front lawn growing among a patch of clover. It has a fairly flat top which is smooth and has an even…

Sticky mushroom

Where: In a stand of conifer trees among the fallen needles. Characteristics • Cap Shape: Pulvinate (cushion) • Cap Margin: Entire (even) • Cap Surface: Smooth • Partial…

Big boi mushroom

This mushroom was also found in my front lawn and was growing on the lawn with several other mushroom species. Cap is arched and somewhat granulose. Color in…

Tiny mushroom

This mushroom was found in my front yard, growing in the lawn. It has a verigate, bell-shaped cap with an even margin. No apparent partial veil and the…

Orange mushrooms among ivy

This mushroom was growing on a fallen log in a forest and had English ivy growing around it. The cap is smooth and convex with an even edge….

Classic red Mushroom

This mushroom was growing in my neighbors lawn. It has a bright red saucer cap with scales. Gills are narrow and are attached close to the stem (uncinate)….

Gomphidius

Where: I found this in a small stand of conifer trees to the side of a greenway trail. It was out in the open but protected overhead by…

Dark cups

Where: I found this in a hollowed out cavity under a tree. It seems as though the tree is still alive and grew over something that later eroded…

Damaged Looking Orange Mushroom

This is another mushroom found in the grass off the siewalk of a busy street. When I found the mushroom, it already had holes in the cap. The…

Small White Flat Capped Mushroom

I found this mushroom under a coniferous tree at a park, buried under piles of dead leaves. The cap shape seems to be uplifted, with crenate cap margins…

Brown Flat Capped Mushroom

I found this mushroom growing in the grass at a park just off the gravel path. It was covered in foliage when I found it, and I had…

Wavy Looking Mushroom

I found this is another mushroom found in the grass off the sidewalk of a busy street. This mushroom seems to be a true grilled mushroom, since the…

Old Looking Mushroom Found Near a Big Street

I found this mushroom in the grass off the sidewalk of a busy street. There were also coniferous trees around the area. There was an entire group of…

Is is Turkish Tail?

Where: Found growing on the end of a tree trunk that had fallen across the path, but had been cut up to clear the way for hikers. Maybe…

White and warty

Where: Along a forested trail around the perimeters of Burnaby’s EA facility. Located along the grassy margin of a gravel path under ~50-80% tree cover, and fairly fine,…

Cute red forest mushroom

I found this mushroom off a trail path, growing under a log and in tree debris. The cap is smooth and convex. White Gills are close together and…

Roadside Mushrooms

I found these mushrooms growing on grass off of the side walk on a busy street. It’s cap is convex to slight knobbed shaped. Cap is smooth and…

Free lunch from a dead body

This white mushroom was found on a decaying log in a forest park. The cap is mostly flat with arched margins. The gills are close. There may or…

It grows on the backlogs

This sessile shelf fungus was found stuck to a fallen log in a forest park. The cap is black and tapers in a zonate pattern towards the margin…

Adorable tiny mushroom

This mushroom was found in a small patch of forest in Coquitlam, it was growing off the trail out of some moss and sticks. The shape of the…

Almost the Mario mushroom

This mushroom was found on growing from the soil off the trail of a forest park. It has a large yellow convex cap covered with warts. There is…

Small tall yellow umbrella-like mushroom

This tiny mushroom sprouted from the soil off a forest trail. The conical cap is yellow in the center and striate at the white margins. The cap margin…

Roast turkey with jam?

This mushroom grew on soil in a forest. The sunken cap has a red colour in the middle and the margin is eroded. The beige margin is tomentose….

white cap mushroom

My dad found this mushroom in a forest close to our house. apparently it was growing on the ground on grass and soil. The cap is light brownish…

mushroom found in the backyard

I found this mushroom in our backyard growing close to some other plants in our garden. the cap is yellowish-white with white margins and the cap is smooth…

mushroom with super white gills

my father found this mushroom in a forest close to our house. It was growing on the trunk of a tree. The cap of this mushroom is convex…

Brown mushroom

I found it in a forest near my house. It has a decurved cap with regular cap margin. The cap surface looks smooth. It has no partial veil…