Tag: fungi

Fungi on the Mountains-to-Sea Trail, South Asheville

Fungi on the Mountains-to-Sea Trail in South Asheville, North Carolina on 21 August 2016.  

Fungi – 20 October 2013

These are mushroom photographs taken by Walker around our home on Sunday, 20 October 2013.  

Wood Blewit

Wood Blewit [Clitocybe nuda] found near the Blue Ridge Parkway in South Asheville, just off the Mountains-to-Sea Trail, on 27 July 2013. Reader’s Digest North American Wildlife, page 541, states it grows in “woods; occasionally in compost piles.” Wikipedia: Clitocybe nuda

Crowned Clavaria or Crown-Tipped Coral Fungus

Crowned Clavaria or Crown-Tipped Coral Fungus [Artomyces pyxidatus] found near the Blue Ridge Parkway, milepost 437, along the Mountains-to-Sea Trail, on 25 July 2013.  Reader’s Digest North American Wildlife, page 549, states it grows “in clumps on logs and stumps of broad-leaved trees” and lists it under the older scientific name of Clavicorona pyxidatus. Wikipedia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artomyces_pyxidatus