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1] Honey Mushroom Armillariella mellea
Honey Mushrooms are very common in our area. They are usually found at the base of deciduous trees (loses leaves in Fall) or pine trees. They are also found on stumps and old wood, and sometimes they are parasites on live trees or shrubs.
The cap of this mushroom can grow up to four inches across. The cap is oval and becomes convex (dented) when it gets older. It is usually yellow or rusty-brown, sometimes with small black hairs.
2] Meadow Mushroom Agaricus campestris
Meadow Mushrooms are one of the most common wild mushrooms that people eat. They are usually white, but can also be brownish.
The cap of this mushroom is between one and four inches wide. It is dry to the touch.
The stalk of the Meadow Mushroom is one to two inches long, and about 1/2 inch thick.
The gills (feathery things underneath the cap) are pink. They become brown as the mushroom gets older.
Meadow Mushrooms grow in grassy areas, such as fields and lawns.
3] Elegant Stinkhorn Mutinus elegans
The Elegant Stinkhorn can be seen July through September. It grows on old wood, dead leaves, or in rich soil.
It can be found in many places, including woods, fields, and gardens--wherever there is decaying plant material.
The Elegant Stinkhorn attracts insects with its smell, especially flies, such as the Bluebottle fly. This fungus depends on insects to spread, much like flowers. As the flies eat the stinkhorn, spores (much like pollen from flowers) attach to the insects' bodies. The spores are in the stinkhorn's green slime. Later, these spores can grown into new fungi.
4]Jack O'Lantern Omphalotus olearius
The Jack O'Lantern is an orange or orangish-yellow mushroom with a cap up to eight inches wide. Its stalk can grow also grow eight inches tall.
Jack O'Lanterns grow in large clusters on the base of live trees, on old stumps, or on buried roots.
Like all mushrooms, the part you see (cap and stem) is just part of the fungus. Most of the fungus is a large network of threads underground or under bark of a tree. The mushroom part is a lot like the flower on a plant. Jack O'Lanterns "bloom" from July to November.
5] Pear-shaped Puffball Lycoperdon pyriforme
This mushroom is shaped like an upside-down pear. It is usually yellowish-brown and it can grow almost two inches wide and two inches tall.
Pear-shaped Puffballs grow on wood, old logs, stumps, and debris.
They are very common and they often grow together in clusters.
6] Oyster Mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus
Oyster Mushrooms can be found year-round on deciduous (lose leaves in Fall) trees, especially willows. Occasionally, they grow on pines.
These mushrooms are wide and fleshy. They can be white, gray or brown. Caps can be up to eight inches wide, usually in a semi-circle shape. The gills (feathery things under the cap) are white or yellowish. Sometimes Oyster Mushrooms have as short stalk, but it's never more than 1/2 long.
Besided growing on live trees, these mushrooms also grow on stumps or fallen branches.