Spartan2 wrote on Dec 21^st, 2012 at 1:56pm:

How do you feel about fungus? This one is from this year's canoe trip, in the woods in back of a campsite on Cherokee Lake. Tripod shot with a 70-200 lens.  On my belly in the dirt.

Could be a boletus subvelutipes? (If so, not edible, not one of the "gourmet" boletus species)

Fungi are an older kingdom than either plants or animals, so we should be honored to have them in this thread.

There was a morel thread somewhere a little while ago, and there seem to be a at least a few other amateur mycologists on QJ.