Abundant Nature at CoSM Art Sanctuary

Alex takes you on a brief movie tour of CoSM Art Sanctuary, starting with the frogs.

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Nature abounds year round at CoSM. 
Profoundly wet summer has brought a wide variety of mushrooms everywhere.

Mycologists please weigh in.

Eduardo admires a beautiful fungus.

Common Thelophora?

A white hen-of-the-woods?
 
Stage One Fometopsis pinacola?

Young Fometopsis pinacola?

Elderly Fometopsis pinacola with slug?

Morel. We ate it.

Artist's Polypore?

Stacka Hydnum (Climacodon septentrionolis)?

 

Comments

[Paul Henne`]

Hey hows it goin everyone!? i live in Poughkeepsie and ive been to CoSM and to the Jungle. I plan on coming to the Full Moon Ceremony this friday. I was wondering whats the new CoSM was like??? Thankya il see ya all tommorrow!!

[Brie]

As far as the fungi pictured above; I think that the first image may actually be Phaeolus schweinitzii, the Dye Maker's Polypore. The second picture is a tough one...hard to tell but even if it was hen of the woods it would be too old to eat :( For the Fometopsis pinacola, I agree, although the medicinal Ganoderma lucidum (reishi) looks similar. The image of the elderly F. pinacola maybe Ganoderma tsugae...do you know what kind of wood it was growing on? And as for the last image, were there really spines/teeth on the underside of those shelves? Cool! This is a species I have only seen a few times, although it is supposedly common in this area. Keep foraging...autumn is great for edibles!