I'm very unfamiliar with the different variety of the 'trumpet' family of mushrooms and fungi.....these start off coming out looking almost like a club-like fungi then spread open to form beautiful velvety urn or cup shaped sunken cap. Unfortunately I have not taken a sample yet as I've been in a hurry and have also had camera issues but if more info is needed I can return and get more. The tallest I have found is only about an inch in height.....some with perfectly round caps and others with overlapping curling caps. They were found growing in moss alongside a little used hiking trail in the woods in North East Kansas
Very beautiful! The 1st photo looks like a Coltrichia. The last photo looks a bit like a young Schweinitz's Butt Rott - Phaeolus schweinitzii ... but I'm not sure. Could it be growing on a buried big root near a trunk? What is the underside like - pores, teeth? It might be helpful to know the pore shape and pattern too. I hope more folks weigh in on this, I'd like to know what these are too. :-)
As the weather and my camera have both decided to not agree with me...I was unable to get back to this location today. I don't however recall that these were growing near any kind of dead trees? However, the location was on a well-packed incline in the woods....with lots of large roots poking out of the ground with moss....not a lot of other foliage around. The trees in this location are Cottonwood, Mulberry, Red Bud, Oak, and Maple. There are very few evergreens and a mix of other hardwoods as well as trees like Ash, Cherry, and Pawpaw. I had actually thought the last pic was of the same kind of fungi as the other two? Photos 1&2 had a light poored underside.....very tiny almost un-noticable. Let me look up u'r ideas and see if they...um...fruit?
They look like Coltricia cinnamomea to me . . . http://www.mushroomexpert.com/coltricia_cinnamomea.html Best wishes, Michael
Although I couldn't get that link to work...not even when I googled it.............I did look up the name u supplied. DEFINATELY have to agree! Thanx so much for the help with this one.......they are definately beautiful little fellows...
Thank you for the ID Michael! re photo #3 - would what appear to be thicker whiter growing edges be characteristic of Coltricias?
Sorry my site was down for a while yesterday. The link ought to work now. Frog, I see what you're thinking with the Phaeolus idea, but what's missing from C.'s photo, I'm guessing, is a size reference. Like, that whole clump in the third photo is probably about 2 or 3 cm across! A Phaeolus button would be much larger by the time it looked like the clump in the photo. Best wishes, Michael
My apologies for the lack of size reference on the third photo.......it was 4cm long.....2 tall, almost 2 1/2 wide.
I can see where the 3rd would look like that? I returned yesterday to take more pics and it had actually deteriorated without getting any larger. With all the rainfall we've been getting I'm not surprised. Thanx for the help!
lol...I'll debate u'r being wrong? But I feel u'r correct here. I just think the 3rd one is an 'advanced' sample of the others.
