I broke out my keys and there are a handful that fit the bill based off what I can gather from your photo, so I won’t venture a guess. That white powder though is a common trait called “bloom” for some Russula. Cool stuff I have never seen that in Indiana before. Beautiful picture.

I can see why you gave up on Russula ID’s. I kept coming across a wide range of colors for species. From purple to olive for the same species! Mushrooms are so strange and that is why they are fun.

Hey Magpie, mind sharing the region the mushroom was found and I will do some digging in the books.

I have similar purple Russula in Northern Indiana and I know I hunted down a species once.

Ole boy Shep checking them out.

I am working on Alan Moore’s run of Swamp thing. I love the art style of the time, nice and simple with bold colors.

With the white spores this is likely an Armillaria sp.

This would be one hell of an amanita! This guy is 12 inch across. It turned more yellow over time, I think this is just a vibrant process of spores being formed in the tissue. It was very interesting to watch.

I love these guys. Feel like umbrella’s for small creatures.

What is your recipe?

Nice. Have you ever made pasta with these? I saw a recipe of using the ink and it looked interesting.

They grow at the base of oak trees and are very unique in appearance. Feel free to share some photos over and I can confirm for you.

That is a big boy!

Thanks for getting some more to share. I am throwing my hat in with the Armillaria from whoever said that yesterday(veil and white spores), I’ll do some digging tonight though as I am not familiar with this part of the world.

I am curious. Anyone know what this guy is?

Thankfully he is just being a ding dong standing on uneven ground, keeping watch for squirrels. Your dad is right about ubiquitous as I just walked the woods again and they popped up everywhere.

Maybe an older resinous polypore but I am not the best with shelf fungus. Hope that helps.

Oh yea, I had a nice meal.

The veiled bolete is very cool. Great picture.

You may already know but old man of the woods bruises a deep red, always cool to see or show kids.

That is a ghost pipe. He is not a mushroom but a parasitic plant. Just recently people started losing it over ghost pipe tincture, I have been in the woods all my life and had not heard people doing anything with them.