The first colors of autumn and some more mushrooms...

 

 

 

 

 

Cascade Loop in DuPont State Recreational Forest

Mushrooms on the Wilkie trail in DuPont Forest...

 

and again some very strange, unusual...

Honey mushroom?

 Coral-like mushrooms

 

 

 Stalked Puffball-in-Aspic

Bleeding Tooth fungus - unique, weird, yet incredible mushroom...

Shaggy-Stalked Bolete

 

 

September - on the trail in Deerlake Village

 

American pokeweed - also known as Poke sallet, Inkberry, Pigeon berry, Poke salad

 Jack in the Pulpit Berries

Jack-in- the-Pulpit is considered dangerous and should not be eaten raw; it is a poisonous plant. The plant's leaves, berries, and corms contain calcium oxalate, which is a chemical compound that takes the form of tiny crystalline structures.

Beefsteak Fungus, Ox-tongue fungus
Growing on living or dead oak and sweet chestnut.

Indian pipe is a parasitic plant that survives by taking the nutrients from certain fungi, trees and decaying plant matter. This complicated, mutually beneficial process allows the plant to survive.

 

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Meadow and cypress trees