May 12, 2024 Mother’s Day at Saint Andrew’s Forest Farm

Eastern American Platterful Mushroom, Megacollybia rodmanii. One of the first mushrooms to appear after morel season. They pop up in May and June. They are decomposers of dead hardwood.

We found 9 or 10 of these Eastern American Platterful Mushrooms on the south side on the slope just above the waterway. They were big and impressive emerging from the forest litter. We’ve been searching for morels for months and hadn’t seen much of any fungi. They were a delightful sight for sore eyes. They are not delicious and some have been sickened by them despite the name “Platterful” so we left them there.

Top of the Megacollybia rodmanii.

Mountain laurel blooming. A nitrogen fixer found throughout the farm.
Early Lowbush blueberry flowering along the southern set back line.

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