Appalachian Trail ... Hiking the Maryland Challenge ... Don't Eat These Mushrooms on the Trail

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Shelf fungi growing on end of sawed off log

Turkey tail (Trametes versicolor) shelf fungus was growing on the end of a sawed off log next to the trail. This kind of fungus is very common growing on dead wood, which it is adept at breaking down and rotting.



Orange fungi growing all over a log across the trail

Many of the wood rotting fungi are colorful, such as this specimen on a log across the trail. I regret that I cannot identify it. Identifying mushrooms is often problematic without extensive investigation into a particular example.

Beautiful yellow mushrooms growing in the middle of the Appalachian Trail

Right in the middle of the trail was something that at first I took to be a flower, but it was not. Instead it was a lovely yellow mushroom. I'm not sure, but this may be a Honey fungus, or Armillaria mushroom (Armillaria mellea).




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