Yesterday’s rare thunderstorm dumped a lot of rain on the park, so today the mushrooms were out! (3.8 mm fell in just 5 minutes, according to the rain gauge just down the road: https://www.flowworks.com/network/hmiscreens/coquitlam/ !)
*We’re not mycologists, so remember not to TOUCH or EAT any mushrooms you find in the wild—some are very poisonous.*
Here’s a pic of some of the fungi (and a lichen) we’ve seen recently in Harper Park.
Top row, from right to left:
- Bracket polypores Fomitopsidaceae
- Jelly fungi Dacrymycetaceae
- Bonnet mushrooms Mycenaceae
Middle row, from right to left:
- Tree Mushrooms Pleurotaceae
- Bonnet mushrooms Mycenaceae
- Cup fungus Pyronemataceae
Bottom row, from right to left:
- Crusts Stereaceae
- Bracket polypores Fomitopsidaceae
- Cladoniaceae
(Names are from an app called PictureThis, errors are our own.)