Peter G Janssen

I found this specimen growing on a down aspen near my home in south central Wisconsin. There are several of these growing out of the log. The cap is tan and slightly slimy when wet. It has a distinct anise/licorice scent to me. Spore print pending. I suspect these are oysters. Any help much appreciated!

Went back out to the rhubarb patch yesterday and managed to find a younger specimen, which seems slightly violet to me. Most are quite large by now as seen in this picture. I threw out my last spore prin t without photographing it, so am doing another. The last one was on white paper, the current, pending one will be too.

The spore print from the ones that I posted a picture of was light tan/buff. I really dont have much in the way of pines around. A few red pines, but these are pretty numerous in my leaf pile and, as mentioned, in the rhubarb leaf mulch. They are getting pretty big now, but I cant appreciate much "blue" in them, more tan.

Ok, unfortunately, I didn't get any of that. Will keep it in mind for the future. Thanks anyway!

I found this cluster of mushrooms growing out of an oak stump in northern Wisconsin in the 3rd week of September. As a moderately enthusiastic fungus observer, I found these to be pretty interesting. They were growing in a clump and as maybe you can see from the pictures the cap has a brown color and a fuzzy texture. Google image searches have not been rewarding for me. Has anyone else ever seen mushrooms like these? Unfortunately, I didn't do a spore print, but they were fairly robust mushrooms with a white interior and gills.

I found a similar batch growing in the leaf mulch around my rhubarb last week. Spore print pending.

These look very similar, if not identical to the ones I am trying to ID, also growing in southern Wisconsin.

They were on what I believe was a dead elm log that was laying on the ground. It was pretty much covered with them. I went back and picked a some more. The spore print was white. After a night in the fridge the top of the caps have become a little more yellow and not as slippery as they were when picked in the wet woods. Here are more pics.

While out searching for morels tonight I stumbled on a down log covered with clusters of these cream colored mushrooms. I think they may be oysters, but they clearly have a stem. Some are several inches across. I haven't done a spore print yet. Any ideas?