Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: Agaricomycetes

These were the tiniest of mushrooms, growing on a small, dead leaf at Bebo Grove on 28th August. They always amaze me when I see how tiny these fungi are. Was out on a full-day driving trip east of the city today (I wasn't driving), to check out what birds were to be seen. It has been a gorgeous day today, sunny and comparatively mild (around 3C?). We did see six beautiful Snowy Owls, though all of them were SOOO far away - no use for photos. The pure white males were just dazzling in the bright sunshine. Also saw about 30 Eurasion Collared Doves in flight.

Saw several of these absolutely fascinating fungi (smaller than actually seen here) at Brown-Lowery Provincial Park this afternoon. The star rays were curled under with all the Earth Stars I saw there, not spread out in the shape of a star. "The Earth Star is a striking soil fungus, so named because the outer wall of the spore-bearing body splits open into a star. One metaphor refers to the rays standing on their tips, like a ballet dancer standing on their toes. Like other earthstars, the outer, leathery wall (peridium) splits open into the rays of a star, but the rays fold down into "legs" that support the spherical spore case that sits on a short stalk or pedicel. The rays are firmly attached to a clump of mycelium and leaf debris." From "The Amazing Fungi " website.