The other day I mentioned the abundance of mushrooms that have recently erupted in our woods. The Better Half and I haven’t yet collaborated on identification, but the latest issue of Minnesota Conservation Volunteer magazine came partially to the rescue with an article about ‘shrooms. The tentative identification below is based on the photos in that article. Only one seemed to align with the MCV pictures. Photos without an identification are still under study. If you want to offer suggestions, feel free to submit a comment.
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| chicken of the woods(?)
Photo by J. Harrington
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It would be nice if the Minnesota Mycological Society offered suggestions to a field guide or even provided one online. From a different source, there are a couple of recommended field guides here. The Minnesota Seasons web page on fungi has lots of missing photos so that may not be the best place for identification assistance.
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| unidentified mushroom
Photo by J. Harrington
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| unidentified mushroom
Photo by J. Harrington
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| unidentified mushroom
Photo by J. Harrington
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| unidentified mushroom
Photo by J. Harrington
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Mushrooms
by Mary Oliver
Mushrooms
Rain, and then
the cool pursed
lips of the wind
draw them
out of the ground -
red and yellow skulls
pummeling upward
through leaves,
through grasses,
through sand; astonishing
in their suddenness,
their quietude,
their wetness, they appear
on fall mornings, some
balancing in the earth
on one hoof
packed with poison,
others billowing
chunkily, and delicious -
those who know
walk out to gather, choosing
the benign from flocks
of glitterers, sorcerers,
russulas,
panther caps,
shark-white death angels
in their town veils
looking innocent as sugar
but full of paralysis:
to eat
is to stagger down
fast as mushrooms themselves
when they are done being perfect
and overnight
slide back under the shining
fields of rain.
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