Fall Mushroom Photography from Vermont - 9 finds

A red Russula mushroom from a recent hike in Vermont. Since this is a photography forum, I led with my best photo not necessary my most interesting mushroom find.

These oyster mushrooms are also very photogenic 🙂 also edible but I was not foraging this day. In fact my hiking group was impatient enough with my photo taking 🙄

Another shot of the oysters highlighting the gills.

Hericium on the end of a log. I went with Hericium because I'm not great on identification between the different types of Hericium 😉 they are all edible.

I was surprised to find this mushroom on the way back down the mountain. Somehow we stepped right over it on the way up and didn't notice it.

These pretty mushrooms are Honey mushrooms I think.

Honey mushrooms are another edible variety. The rainy fall combined with some sun to keep temperatures up has resulted in a lot of mushrooms in my part of Vermont.

This large log was covered with mushrooms possibly more Honey mushrooms but I didn't investigate just zoomed a quick shot from the trail.

Also saw lots of bracket mushrooms.

These caught my eye because they were still bright white.

I think the next two photos were Artists Conk.

I wish I would have gotten a few more shots of this one but isn't that always the case when you are sitting at home editing your photos?

This bracket mushroom was maybe Red Belted Conk but maybe Artist Conk again.

Another shot of the same mushrooms. Nice looking regardless of identification.

I liked this photo with the bark backdrop. It may be horse hoof fungus.

Here's a positive ID and another edible variety. These are puffballs.

I took this photo to show the shape. Puffballs don't have actually stems but are sometimes kind of pear shaped like this one.