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Found this beauty this morning in Worcester, MA.
Since I use my ALDHA hat for scale, I figured I could post it on an AT forum.
I have seen big fungus before, but never on so beautiful.
Riocielo
08-10-2014, 20:22
Wow, that is beautiful.
jimmyjam
08-10-2014, 20:25
That's a humungus fungus amongus.
Odd Man Out
08-10-2014, 21:43
I too take phungi photos for phun.
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Another Kevin
08-10-2014, 22:20
Wow, those are great fungus pictures. I've got nothing to compare. I guess I'm just not a fun guy.
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3869/14318117729_65e8e246b0_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/nPf6yM)
Mushrooms (https://flic.kr/p/nPf6yM) by ke9tv (https://www.flickr.com/people/12834796@N00/), on Flickr
Odd Man Out
08-10-2014, 22:51
Found this beauty this morning in Worcester, MA.
Since I use my ALDHA hat for scale, I figured I could post it on an AT forum.
I have seen big fungus before, but never on so beautiful.
Yes, but does it make a right handed helix in the southern hemisphere???
Tipi Walter
08-10-2014, 23:40
http://tipiwalter.smugmug.com/Backpacking2009/The-Brush-Mountain-Hell-Ride/i-MtjXRk8/0/M/trip%2096%20014-M.jpg
Shelf fungus on the North Fork Citico trail.
http://tipiwalter.smugmug.com/Backpacking2008/Durham-Craig-and-the-19th/i-p2jTdrs/0/M/TRIP%2079%20116-M.jpg
Similar but different.
http://tipiwalter.smugmug.com/Backpacking2008/Backpacking-with-Bob-Ruby-and/i-jM4hQJb/0/M/Trip%2082%20065-M.jpg
My fave, chicken of the woods.
imscotty
08-11-2014, 08:36
Here is a beautiful Fungi Video for you...
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=452996671405878
Here I thought that I was the only person that took pictures of fungus. I have (at least I have tried to) attached a picture of a similar fungus that I saw on he Old Loggers Path last weekend. I did not put anything next to it to compare its size but it was close to 18" cross.
MyName1sMud
08-11-2014, 09:53
Holy crap! That's huge!
WingedMonkey
08-11-2014, 09:58
I don't know how you slow pokes ever expect to get any where with all this stopping to smell the fungus.
:D
Odd Man Out
08-11-2014, 10:52
I don't know how you slow pokes ever expect to get any where with all this stopping to smell the fungus.
:D
I also stopped to smell (and photograph) the roses. :banana It was my knees that slowed me down more than fungi and roses. :mad:
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Tipi Walter
08-11-2014, 13:39
My best shot---
http://tipiwalter.smugmug.com/Backpacking2010/16-Days-with-a-Miracle-Dog/i-HsCSDSk/0/L/TRIP%20111%20153-L.jpg
rocketsocks
08-11-2014, 14:09
That's gorgeous, what is it?
...I think I want to eat it, reminds me of those Hostess pink marshmallow snowballs.
rocketsocks
08-11-2014, 14:14
Once on the job this fella (Mountain Joe we called him) brought in what he called "Momma Funge" he breaded and fried them, they were as big and as thick as T-Bone steaks...covered the whole paper plate, and were very tasty. He said he collected them at the base of oak trees and had been doin' so for many years, and was taught about them by an old timer and friend of his....there were good and quite the meal for lunch that day.
My best shot---
http://tipiwalter.smugmug.com/Backpacking2010/16-Days-with-a-Miracle-Dog/i-HsCSDSk/0/L/TRIP%20111%20153-L.jpg
That is beautiful. I wish I could manage the depth of field like that with my POS camera-- in theory I can but not in practice. Just seeing that flower would be enough though.
Tipi Walter
08-11-2014, 15:31
I believe it's a thistle flower. And Rickb---it was taken on a Panasonic point and shoot, the Lumix LX3 (or LX5).
rocketsocks
08-11-2014, 15:52
I believe it's a thistle flower. And Rickb---it was taken on a Panasonic point and shoot, the Lumix LX3 (or LX5).
ah...didn't notice it head on like that, here's a thistle I shot.28065
Odd Man Out
08-11-2014, 16:03
Nice one Tipi. Looks like something from Dr. Seuss.
rocketsocks
08-11-2014, 16:04
Nice one Tipi. Looks like something from Dr. Seuss.
it is dreamy.
This otherworldly scene materializes every year on the long-dead stump of a huge ash tree in the corner of my yard. The name "chicken of the woods" doesn't really do it justice. Not a great photo, but you get the idea.
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rocketsocks
08-11-2014, 20:06
...found theses in the yard tonight while cuttin' grass. Notice how the surrounding foliage of the first is spore covered...hmm. Both are about 6" across.
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coach lou
08-12-2014, 07:27
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A Pa. schroom and a New York schroom!
Another Kevin
08-12-2014, 10:51
That is beautiful. I wish I could manage the depth of field like that with my POS camera-- in theory I can but not in practice. Just seeing that flower would be enough though.
It's nice being able to open the lens all the way, but on my camera it takes deep shade or a very cloudy day. It does snap the flowers out of the background!
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3886/14481616986_9132761e31_z.jpg (https://www.flickr.com/photos/ke9tv/14481616986/)
Orange hawkweed (https://www.flickr.com/photos/ke9tv/14481616986/) by ke9tv (https://www.flickr.com/people/ke9tv/), on Flickr
I've always enjoyed the Fungi. Here's a few from Central Florida.
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Rolls Kanardly
08-12-2014, 14:17
I too take phungi photos for phun.
A Phungi Photo Photographer Filming Phunny Phungi in the Phorest.
Cool, Rolls
here's one from the trail last weekend!
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Anyone know what the heck this is?
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Odd Man Out
08-12-2014, 18:10
Looks like a red oak leaf with some white stuff on it.:D
WingedMonkey
08-13-2014, 10:01
Anyone know what the heck this is?
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One of the coral mushrooms.
Probably Clavicorona pyxidata.
Snowleopard
08-13-2014, 16:44
It's nice being able to open the lens all the way, but on my camera it takes deep shade or a very cloudy day. It does snap the flowers out of the background!
You want a neutral density filter; then you can shoot with the lens wide open on a bright day.
Roanmtnman
08-19-2014, 22:01
Found this one on pond mountain 28132
double d
09-02-2014, 10:14
Wow-great pictures TipiWalter, thanks for sharing them.
Trailweaver
09-03-2014, 02:47
Thanks all, for sharing the fungus amungus photos. I've always loved funguses, and I too, make photos of them. A few years ago I hiked a section north of Woody Gap (can't remember exactly which one). It was fall, and had had a good bit of rain for several days prior to our being there. I swear, I had never, ever, seen so many funguses amungus as I did on that section. There was something to see every few feet - large, small, and dozens of colors. It was a trip I've never forgotten.
Hikes in Rain
09-03-2014, 08:50
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As long as all the cool kids are doing it....
Since this thread is still going. Here is a picture of a fungus that I saw along the Long Trail near the Winooski River. I almost walked right by it when I saw that someone had carved on the front of it. Sorry for the sideways picture, I am not seeing where I can rotate the attachment.
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2015 Lady Thru-Hiker
09-03-2014, 22:23
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My contributions to this fun fungi fest :)
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For those in my neck of the woods, this 10/22 talk looks like it could be good. Very good.
The author (www.lawrencemillman.com (http://www.lawrencemillman.com)) looks to have written a variety of interesting books that go far beyond fungi-- including one that had a forward by one of my favorite writers-- Paul Thereoux. That raises my expectations.
The National Wildlife Refuge where he is giving his talk on Oct 22nd is also neat-- it was an ammunition storage depot in WW II and is crisscrossed by closed paved and flat dirt/gravel roads through the woods that go by all the bunkers. Really great for family bike outings the woods. It just opened to the public within the past 5 years or so.