Fungi Friday - Nothing but Rot
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The humid summer has rotted all the mushrooms for this #fungifriday by @ewkaw

Here are some interesting false chanterelles I think they are technically in the stinkhorn family.

I believe they are extremely rotted Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca. You can even see white fungus starting to eat the old mushrooms at the base of the one on the right.

Here is some kind of polypore that looks a bit ancient. These smaller types of polypore are a bit hard to identify since there are so many.

I was hoping their pores would reveal some kind of pattern that would help me identify them. Unfortunately they had the typical pore pattern of most polypores so it remains unidentified for now.

Here are some sad looking Crepidotus calolepis. They are often confused with edible oysters but they are much smaller than oysters.

They also have almost no stem. I haven't read they are inedible but I wouldn't risk it plus they are too small to eat anyway.

Look at these guys. Its fungi covered in molds. It looks to have white, green and black mold growing on it.

I think they may be in the Philiota family.

They also seem to have a strange feature where some of them are sharing the same stem... Maybe this could be a way to identify them but I'll have to go back here next year earlier to be able to see them in their prime form.

here is one that isn't rotted but only appears on super rotted wood. This is raspberry slime mold aka Tubifera ferruginosa.

This poor leaf looks to have some kind of warty fungus on it. I'm not sure if this is a fungus or a mold or possibly caused by wasp galls.

Here is some really old Ductifera pululahuana. When it is fresh it is almost a translucent white but now the hot humid heat has wilted and turned it yellow. I'm hoping as it gets cooler I'll be able to find some fresh mushrooms.
That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)

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