My Top 10 Weird Mushroom Pictures
One of the best parts about finding wild mushrooms for me is getting the chance to take pictures of most every wild mushroom I uncover as I hike through the local woodlands. Usually I am looking for a certain few mushrooms I’ve found in the area before, but even in those spots where I know to find a certain mushroom, such as chanterelles or chicken of the woods which often reappear where you found them next season, I still come across these weird mushrooms that I have no idea what it is (or sometimes was…) and take pictures of them, hoping to identify them through some miracle of chance at home, and in the very least adding a strange and bizarre new mushroom picture to my mushroom picture collection.
All mushrooms suggest some sort of character or persona to me, and that will usually influence how I frame my best mushroom pictures. The weird mushrooms pictures offer a rather unique chance to photograph something that strikes a unique pose for the camera. These 10 mushrooms pictures are my Top 10 Weird Mushroom Pictures. I hope you enjoy them.
A mysterious mushroom picture…not sure what kind this is, but it reminds me of a sweaty brain.
A really weird mushroom picture of some funky fungus that looks like a play-doh beard. I think this one is Stemonitis axifera.
A bizarre decaying mushroom picture…this weird one really caught my eye on that hike.
This strange mushroom picture is a weird one indeed. This one I know the name of, Dead man's Fingers. I could totally see why they got that name!
Weird mushroom picture of an Eastern Cauliflower mushroom. Looks like a brain, tastes even better!
Weird Morel mushroom picture. These guys always remind me of little cartoon wizards straight out of Fantasia.
The weirdest mushroom pictures – elegant stinkhorn mushroom. That thing is covered in elegance! Or something!
Squaw Corn – weird mushroom pictures…technically it's not a mushroom, but I find them all the time growing right along side them.
Wacky and weird mushroom pictures – Clavaria pulchra is my best guess, but it reminds me of the wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube man to me
This weird mushroom picture is of a once beautiful Shaggy Mane Mushroom, but now looks like a broken umbrella out of a strange goth movie.
Cool mushroom photos! Weird looks are just a part of the strange world of fungi. They possess a bizarre intelligence borne of millions of years of evolution. Thanks for posting!
Thanks John! You’re right, they most certainly do possess intelligence. I’ve read that the Mycelium can rival the level of complexity of the human brain! I have personal experiences too that would back your claim up! Sometimes when I am out hunting for them, I can almost feel a certain psychic tug on my senses that draw me to finding mushrooms in places I would normally never end up looking!