Cape Romain mushrooms

Mushrooms found on a wooded island in Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge. The first found is an Earthstar, a mushroom I’ve never found in the wild. Perhaps this a Saltshaker variety with 4 holes in the top, found in sandy soil near deciduous trees, but being dried up, it’s hard to tell. At a higher spot on the island are a few types are fragile, gilled, red to yellow radiantly-colored tiny mushrooms. They are shiny and wet-looking. A ring of larger, fine-stemmed, pink to white gilled mushrooms is found back at the edge of the island.

Rainy days in McClellanville, SC

Stinkhorn

A stinkhorn smells like a rotting carcass, and brown goo seeps from its pores and attract flies to the inside of its cage-like structure to spread its spores.  A marvel of nature, the stinkhorn is disturbing to many park users because its smell penetrates a large area.  Rebecca found one of these while walking Shadow in Hampton Park early in the spring and brought it back to the house where it stunk up the yard for a few hours, but quickly shriveled up.  Another one popped up later in the park that she was able to photograph in its location.  She remembers finding these in her hometown of Florence.