Mushrooms of Stony Brook Reservation
A brown jelly mushroom--some version of Exidia recisa?
This photo set is from October 15, 2011. I took a short walk through a part of the Stony Brook Reservation and found some mushrooms.
A very sticky ("viscid") mushroom pushes up through the pine needles. Possibly Cortinarius iodes.
Needles delicately balanced on another mushroom.
I love these unknown mushrooms! Tiny and perfect. Still working on an identification.
Same mushrooms, as they look when they are growing from the side of the branch.
Suillus picta. There were lots of these out, so I took one home to identify it. This mushroom is produced by a fungus that is mycorrhizzal with eastern white pine.
I tilted this mushroom up to look at the spore-producing surface, and it was wet and rotten. As I held it there to get a picture, tiny fly larvae POPPED off of it. It's the second time I've seen fungus maggots jumping.