What’s going on here with this tree?
I’m in Michigan, this is all spawning around a maple tree outside of my apartment and I want to know more! what this is! Looks like two or three different kind of fungus/mushrooms growing around the base of the trunk. It first appeared about a week ago (max) and started as a spot of the browner shroomy on the base of the trunk. The brown fungus started spreading around the trunk, for a day, and the next day or so there was some on the ground on the opposite side, which has since spread into a big patch. After that I noticed the nodules (if that’s what to call them) appear out of the mulch a couple feet away from the trunk. And then this morning I noticed a small patch of the yellow fungus, and it’s now grown to the size it is (about 1.5 feet across).
I just wanna know what kind of mushrooms they are, and why, perhaps, they may be growing around this tree? What are the different kinds, or are they the same guy but different looking? What else may this indicate about the surrounding environment? Is there anything I should worry about? Should I give it a name and will it be my friend? (If so, how do I make friends?) etc etc etc
If any super cool mycologists would like to impart some knowledge, I’d love to learn something new!
Other things maybe of note:
- The tree and surrounding plants don’t seem to be in distress at all,
- we have had all that wildfire smoke here this past weekend if that plays a role
- there hasn’t been excessive rainfall but it has been humid.
- also sorry I took the pics at night, I’m too impatient lol