I saw many of the mushrooms on this page in Forest Tower Park in Jacksonville, Florida. The rest of the mushrooms and the fungus growing on tree stumps were seen in other places in Jacksonville.
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This mushroom was holding water. (August 19, 2015)
[A large tan mushroom with a top which is curled up like a bowl.]

Easy to spot the red ones. (August 19, 2015)
[Small button-top mushroom with a red top and a white stem.]

A mushroom of the russula family (August 19, 2015)
[Flat-topped mushroom with a red topskin and everything else white. The top of this has some vee notches sort of like missing pieces of a pie.]

Another mushroom of the russula family (November 23, 2023)
[Flat-topped mushroom with a mostly red topskin and serrated edges with a couple of small chunks missing. There appears to be another red-topped one below it.]

Apparently it is possible for a fungus to get moldy. (August 19, 2015)
[A reddish-orange topped mushroom with a layer of white fuzz across the top.]

This one looks like a mini beach umbrella. (August 19, 2015)
[A mushroom with a long relatively-thin white stem and a flat top with some ridges. The top is light brown.]

Here's another which looks like a mini umbrella. (August 5, 2018)
[A top-down view of the pleated cap of a white mushroom with a long relatively-thin white stem. There are many pleats in the cap and it appears dirt is stuck in them.]

A meaty-looking mushroom (August 19, 2015)
[A white mushroom with a thick stem and a thick flat top.]

A mushroomy-looking mushroom (August 19, 2015)
[A brown mushroom with a thick stem and a substantial umbrella-like top curling over the stem.]

I found this in a local grassy area. (September 20, 2015)
[A mushroom with a very thick step and a small globular cap growing amid the grass.]

This was growing near the one in the prior photo. (September 20, 2015)
[A top-down view of a mushroom with a very large flat cap. In the center of the tan cap is a brown section as if something else is growing on top of it.]

These mushrooms seem rather flat and thin. (July 19, 2022)
[A top-down view of two mushrooms with the edge of one seeming a little deformed because it the other was growing so close to it. Both have large, flat caps which appear to be quite thin. The tops are a whitish-pink with some dark brown spots scattered across the top.]

Another seemingly inverted mushroom (January 10, 2016)
[A side view of a mostly white mushroom with its cap inverted in a bowl shape. The underside of the cap has many ridges emanating from the stem to the edges of the cap.]

I saw this mushroom with an interesting pattern in its cap in a groomed area under a tree. (June 19, 2016)
[Top-down view of the mushroom cap amid the reddish-brown bark and stray green weed under the tree. There is an irregularly regular squiggly design on the cap (reminds me of a deformed waffle iron pattern) which is a lighter color than the rest of the cap. ]

This mushroom is like a meaty brown leaf on the end of a wide brown stem. (October 20, 2017)
[This mushroom is growing under a bush with needles (not leaves). A wide dark-brown stem leads to one edge of the tan-brown cap which is shaped more like a leaf than a mushroom cap. ]

Mushrooms with some meaty-looking caps (September 6, 2016)
[Side view of three mushrooms growing so close together in the tall grass that their caps overlap. The mushrooms have thick yellowish-brown stems and light tan caps which are puffy on the top and undersides. The grass growing around them is taller than they are and partially obscures the view of them.]

As this fungus, a Hygroscopic earthstar, matures, the 'ball' becomes as star as 'petals' pull away from the ball and rest on the ground. (June 4, 2017)
[This mushroom resembles a star-shaped flower sitting flat on the ground. It has a whitish center puffball with a hole in the top center. Coming out from the bottom of the puffball are petal-shaped sections which dark brown and have cracks in them.]

These two mushrooms appear to be two different types of common puffball mushrooms. The photo on the right has a small one to the left of the large one. (November 21, 2023)
[Two photos spliced together. On the left is one white spherical mushroom with a light brown dot on each segment and little spiky edges. On the right are two puffballs with one approximately one fifth of the size of the other. Both are spherical with segments with light brown dots and spiky edges which are not as long as the ones on the puffball in the other image.]

This mushroom resembles a table top. (September 5, 2019)
[A light brown vertical stem extends from the thick-blade grass to a circular light brown flat top. The edges of the top are notched and the top is at least a quarter inch thick.]

A colorful cluster (September 5, 2019)
[A cluster of about eight light brown mushrooms have some flattened and overlapping caps. The cap on one mushroom, which has not yet flattened, has an upside-down bowl shape and a relatively thin stem. The tops seem to have flattened naturally, so that may be a stage of the growing cycle.]

Long stems and small caps on these (September 5, 2019)
[A cluster of about eight mushrooms with long thick tan stems. The tops on these resemble a turban shape and are white with a brown coating. As the cap grows larger, it splits and crackles the coating so more white is visible. The mushrooms vary in height.]

Two views of this spherical mushroom that seems to be peeling itself (August 19, 2020)
[Two photos spliced together of the same mushroom. On the left is a side top-down view of the white globe atop a white stem in some very green grass mostly in the shadow of the sunlight. The top of the sphere is peeling back from the center point into about a half dozen curls similar to petals of a flower curling inward. The part the peels exposed is brownish. On the right is a side view of the mushroom in full sun. The parts of the mushroom which have not peeled have a textured appearance. The part which has peeled looks smooth.]

This mushroom reminds me of a jelly donut. I thought it was one until I got close. (August 12, 2020)
[A mushroom with a wide thick cap which appears to be lying on the ground. The stem must be so short that it is not visible. The surface is not smooth. One part appears to be completely broken through to whatever is inside while the rest is lumpy. The color of the surface has a tinge of purple on a beige surface as if there is jelly in the donut.]

Fungus growing on tree stump on left with close view on the right. (May 29, 2022)
[Two photos spliced together. On the left is a three-part greyish-brown tree stump only about six inches high. Growing from nearly all parts are white thick half-circles which appear to be oozing frome the base of the stump. There are many layers of circles from the ground to near the top of the stump. On the right is a close view of one of the half circles. There are brown patches across the top as if someone sprinkled cinnamon on it.]

A dead tree was cut down and these turkey tail mushrooms grew on the stump. (March 23, 2021)
[Two photos spliced together. On the left is a top down view of what was the stump. A series of rings of fungi growth completely cover it. On the right is a close view of the growth. The colors vary with bluish brown near the center and lighter shades of brown near the outer edges of each of the leaflet ring sections. ]

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