#pheasant's back

[j3sterth1ngz]

A pheasant's back cluster that I found in my backyard

[vandaliatraveler]

Part 1: After the Rain - Life in an Appalachian Temperate Forest.

From top: Dryad’s saddle (Cerioporus squamosus), a magnificent and edible shelf fungus of Appalachia’s spring forests; wild comfrey (Cynoglossum virginianum), a native borage sometimes also referred to as blue hounds tongue; violet wood sorrel (Oxalis violacea); American cancer-root (Conopholis americana), a parasitic plant that attaches to oak tree roots; northern maidenhair fern (Adiantum pedatum); and wild stonecrop (Sedum ternatum), also known as three-leaved stonecrop.

[windandwater]

Fort Tryon Park: Tree Fungus

[bobcat-pie]

ok So, in the fall I befriended this big dryad's saddle mushroom on my walk home. then hurricane Ian knocked it down.

No biggie, right? it was just the fruiting body, the rest of the organism would be fine! Plus, spring was also a growing season for dryad's saddle. I could just wait and see it again!

So i waited.

And i waited.

And spring came, weeks and weeks ago.

I was worried it was dead, or maybe it was going to skip spring for a fungus sabbatical or something, and I'd never see it again because I'm going off to college and won't walk this way anymore...

UNTIL!! TODAY!!!!!!!!

IT'S BACK, ERUPTED RIGHT OUTTA ITS FORMER THRONE!!! :D

[zhongluong]

Second expirament: Dryad’s Saddle Mushrooms. 

These grow on a fallen log in the yard, big old slippery elm that got cut down.  The mushroom also has a ton of other names- Pheasant’s Back being the other popular one.

[scavengers-supply]