Mushrooms Found In Our Community Park

Mushrooms can grow almost everywhere, especially during the rainy season November & December (Singapore’s wettest months), a lot of common species can be spotted along our roadsides and our neighborhood community park...It was reported that Singapore is a home for more than 100 species of mushrooms. But they are not many information I can find to identify them. Please correct me if I got their names wrong. Here are some of my collections of mushrooms found in our community park...

Pleated Inkcap

Pleated inkcap asloso known as little Japanese Umbrella, It is a very delicate member of the inkcap group of fungi mostly occurs in short grass area. It is different from Fairy Inkcap, You can easily find them  in our community park or along the road side, alone, scattered or in small groups. This is one of the many short-lived grassland fungi that appear overnight after rain and will self decompose once spore dispersion is achieved, they are dried up in morning sunlight, or will eventually collapse beneath the weight of their caps.

Bolete

The coffee bun like mushroom is bolete. 

"A bolete is a type of mushroom, or fungal fruiting body. It can be identified thanks to a unique mushroom cap. The cap is clearly different from the stem. On the underside of the cap there is usually a spongy surface with pores, instead of the gills typical of mushrooms. However, there are some boletes that are gilled..."-Wikipedia

 

A botele past its prime, photo clicked at SengKang are, 2021

False Parasol

"Chlorophyllum molybdites, which has the common names of false parasol, green-spored Lepiota and vomiter, is a widespread mushroom. Poisonous and producing severe gastrointestinal symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea, is the most commonly misidentified poisonous mushroom."

   

   

 

 

The pileus go flat at maturity

Bird’s Nest Fungi

People say it resembles the miniature bird's nest with eggs, but I look at this more like a small cup of desert.  They are very tiny about 1 cm diameter and 2 cm tall only. Each fruiting body forms a cup-shaped nest, which contains spore-filled eggs. The other common name “Splash Cup” alludes to its mode of spore dispersal when raindrops strike the nest, the eggs (called ’periodoles’) are flung into the air and the spores eventually get dispersed.

 

Fluted Bird's Nest Fungus on wood chips in Seng Kang Riverside Park

Some Random mushrooms captured at Pasir Ris Park posted below:

 

...to be continued