Okay I'm back with the much anticipated reveal of what we found on yesterday's nature walk. LOL. We talked Opa into going with us on an excursion to the Salmon River Estuary where I had heard there was a goldmine of colorful and interesting fungi to say the least. Okay enough with the small talk and on with the show! Make sure you check out the last couple of photos because there are some really freaky mushrooms out there!
This one reminds me of the ones you see on tv in fairy tale shows with the red and white spots. It is so neat and this one was in perfect shape. Some of them appeared to have been nibbled at or cracked and damaged from the weather.
Here's another one. I put one of my camera batteries next to it so that you could get an idea of the size of it. It was the largest one of that kind we found.
Next we found these little ones. Of course we were very curious about them and poked at them a bit with our shoes to see what they felt at. They were amazingly sturdy, not spongy at all!
Now I'm sure many of you have seen these ones. They're the ones that are nearly hollow inside and that let out that greenish colored smoke when you touch them. My dad was tapping at it with his walking stick while I took the photo but I just couldn't capture the smoky powder coming out of them : )
I love the stem of this one and it looks like someone had been nibbling on his top. Could he be a safe one to eat? I think we'll leave that up to the forest creatures :)
These two were very interesting with their super high gloss sheen and they were bowl shaped so that the water sat in the center of their tops.
This one here looks sort of similar to the first picture I showed you but it looked jelly on the top, you just wanted to give it a little poke to find out but we managed to keep our fingers to ourselves *grin*
These ones were gigantic and had a really rubbery looking texture. Those spots that you can see on it were actually raised up little nubs about half a centimeter high.
This one looks just like a rose! Don't you think?
Okay now for the truly weird and freaky!!
What is this!? It was like squid legs but they were velvety in appearance.
This one and the above mushroom we found side by side and they are the most beautiful shades of purple and this one was velvety in appearance as well just like the previous one.
And last but not least this absolutely intriguing creature. It looks like it belongs in the sea, perhaps on a coral reef somewhere with little tropical fishies swimming in and out of it. LOL. I actually do know the name of this one but not in English. It is a Baerentatze the German name for it since that is all my dad knows for it.
Now if you know any of the names or have a good guess as to what you might think they are could you pretty pretty please share them with me? I went to the bookstore to get a book on mushrooms today and she was completely sold out! Her shipment had come in a couple of days earlier and all the books on fungi flew off the shelves immediately. She has promised me a copy next week when she gets more so until then I would love to hear your guesses and then I'll look them up when we get the book : )
