Fungus!

During our time in Asheville, we regularly saw three things on our hikes — butterflies, flowers and fungus!  Asheville offers foraging tours of wild plants and edible mushrooms ($75/person), but, seeing as Wendy hates the taste of mushrooms and Curt is indifferent to them, we skipped that.  We did enjoy photographing them, though.  Trying to name them was a whole other adventure. We did our best, but feel confident we got most of them wrong. (There are over 10,000 mushroom species in the US!)

Agarics

Boletes

Polypores

Polypores

 Chicken of the Woods

Polypore - Maybe Hen of the Woods

Oyster

Agaricales