Bram posted this photo and I thought I’d try to paint it. Coolest mushrooms I think I’ve ever seen.
The cascade makes them look like they’re a moving crowd under the watch of that supervisor mushroom. The colours and shading are excellent.
Here’s one of my favorite mushrooms:
How very… Goopy
Thank you! And that mushroom looks like orange brain material. What’s it called? I’ve never seen anything like it.
Pretty sure it’s tremella mesenterica or ‘witches butter.’ I have a mushroom book that calls it “edible but gross.”
Eating them raw sounds gross (most mushrooms shouldn’t be eaten raw but jelly fungi are fine raw) but if you candy and dehydrate them, the texture is just like a gummy bear.
What. Good thing I remember exactly where I found it. It was near a bear I found, too! I should have followed the doctrine of signatures and taken the hint.
edible but gross
My brain wasn’t expecting the sentence to go thay way lmao
LMAO, a description that can fit food I’ve cooked in my youth.
I can identify these as Hypholoma sp. from the painting so great job.
Oh nice! Are they edible?
It looks like Hypholoma capnoides (conifer tuft) which is edible but it’s hard to say for sure.
Hypholoma fasiculare (sulfur tuft) can look similar at this stage of development and is somewhere between “bitter and indigestible” and “mildly toxic”.
Wild! Thank you.
