There's a Fungus Among Us!

There is a plethora of different species of fungus here in Minnesota. Here are some of the cool ones I have spotted while working. And some other random photos as well. 

Evan thinks that these might be insect eggs but either way they are so cool they way they outline whatever they are on. 

This dude was checking us out up in the top of a large aspen tree. 

This is a grape fern (Sceptridium dissectum) and it is on the state watch list. 

Just showing some more cedar swamp love. 

I wonder if I could make a hobbit hole out of a cedar tip up mound....

Just another Malaxis monophyllos var. brachypoda that I found. 

The red fruit of Jack-in-the-Pulpit (Arisaema )

The pretty Maidenhair Fern (Adiantum pedatum). 

Sphagnum sporophytes! Did you know that there are 33 species of Sphagnum moss in the state of Minnesota? 

A really shiny thalloid liverwort that is probably a species of Conocephallum. 

The cool blue fruiting bodies of the Blue Stain fungus. It actually stains the wood blue!

A quite large American Elm (Ulmus americana) which is quite an uncommon sight due to Dutch Elm Disease. 

I have no idea what this is but I have been seeing them around lately. They have some kind of root system that attaches  them to the ground.

Some more Indian Pipe (Monotropa uniflora) flowers. 

I have never seen a fungus like this before. 

Indian Pipe is all over the place here.