Calostoma Cinnabarinum
Calostoma Cinnabarinum produces this weird jelly.
See more of the mushrooms we find on and near Coal Creek Farm.
Calostoma Cinnabarinum produces this weird jelly.
See more of the mushrooms we find on and near Coal Creek Farm.
Did you know that no one knows how many types of mushrooms exist in nature. There are about 10,000 described species known from North America, but everyone agrees that there are undiscovered species. Cerioporus Leptocephalus, commonly known as blackfoot polypore, is an inedible species of mushroom in the genus Cerioporus. It usually grows on the branches…
Fly Agaric mushrooms, which look like Super Mario Bros. mushrooms, contain a psychoactive chemical that can cause micropsia/macropsia, aka the illusion that objects around you are larger or smaller than they actually are. Is the Lamaoa Pallidorosea edible? Is the Lamaoa Pallidorosea safe? Those are two very common questions asked about this bicolored specimen. And…
Believe it, or not, it’s not coral – it’s a mushroom! Learn more about the mushrooms at Coal Creek Farm.
Radiation-loving mushrooms were even used to clean up the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan. Trametes Versicolor – also known as Coriolus Versicolor and Polyporus Versicolor – is a common polypore mushroom found throughout the world. Meaning ‘of several colors’, versicolor reliably describes this fungus that displays different colors. These colors are important in Trametes Versicolor identification. For example, because its shape and multiple colors are similar…
Some beautiful oyster mushrooms found at Coal Creek Farm. Learn about the mushrooms we find around Coal Creek.
Mushrooms recycle dead plants and return valuable nutrients into the ground. They are often used for degradation of dangerous substances such as oils, pesticides and industrial waste. Pleurocybella Porrigens is a species of fungus in the family Marasmiaceae. The species is widespread in temperate forests of the Northern Hemisphere. The Pleurocybella Porrigens is known as the angel wing. It is a white-rot wood-decay fungus on conifer wood, particularly…