As the nights begin to cool and clouds gather over the mountains more often than not, mushrooms poke out of the ground, shyly at first, then overwhelming in their multitudes. Spring and autumn are important times when mushrooms arrive in flushes, bringing to the changing forest extra life and colour. Even hiking just a few steps into the forest, I’m greeted with tiny fuzzyfoots, fir-cones, and horsehair parachutes, all mushrooms that thrive in fall’s cool temperatures and misty rains. Here is a collection of this year’s autumn photography.
Possibly a subspecies of fuzzyfoot. Copyright Hazel Peel-Hodgson, 2021Fir-cone mushrooms. Copyright Hazel Peel-Hodgson, 2021A lone mushroom befriended with a fir-cone. Copyright Hazel Peel-Hodgson, 2021A type of oyster mushroom. Copyright Hazel Peel-Hodgson, 2021Horsehair parachute mushrooms. Copyright Hazel Peel-Hodgson, 2021A type of fuzzyfoot. Copyright Hazel Peel-Hodgson, 2021Copyright Hazel Peel-Hodgson, 2021Copyright Hazel Peel-Hodgson, 2021A cluster of mushrooms growing from the exposed root ball of a fallen tree. Copyright Hazel Peel-Hodgson, 2021Possibly false tukeytail. Copyright Hazel Peel-Hodgson, 2021A family of fuzzyfoots! (Fuzzyfeet?) Copyright Hazel Peel-Hodgson, 2021Possibly one of my favourite autumn mushrooms, the fircone. Copyright Hazel Peel-Hodgson, 2021
