Appalachian Trail ... Hiking the Maryland Challenge ...
Don't Eat These Mushrooms on the Trail
(Gallery Has Three Pictures)
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.
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.
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).


