Dead Mans Foot Mushroom - Pisolithus arrhizus : AKA The Dye Ball, Dog Turd Fungi

Aaron Hilliard, VP of the Kitsap Peninsula Mycological Society, and his 5 year old daughter Aliyah discover a dead mans foot!! Well, its not an actual dead mans foot, its a mushroom that goes by that "common name." This mushroom has been long used for dyeing fabrics amazing colors, but you wouldn't know by looking at it, because it looks like a clot of dirt or maybe a dried out dog turd.
This is a mycorrhizal fungi, meaning it associates with trees and plants, and where some mushrooms might be picky about their host, or partner if you will, this mushroom is pretty opportunistic. This particular one is growing in the crunchy yellow grass in a small space between the sidewalk and the gutter, and seems to come back year after year. It is truly amazing that anything can live in the small habitat that it was growing in, but it definitely has to do with the mycorrhizae, because there is no other way this thing could have mustard up the energy to grow into what it was, without some outside help.

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