So, in Boise Idaho right now, it is 37°F when I type this. It's been getting below freezing at night constantly.

I happened to be out looking at my backyard, when I found mushrooms growing on a tree stump and in the ground around the tree stump. Roots are exposed also. You can see them between the bark and the tree stump.

No pun intended, I was stumped. The ground is frozen. It's been getting below freezing at night. These mushrooms shouldn't be growing in my opinion. It's too cold and the ground is frozen. That defies all my knowledge of plants. I thought plants, including mushrooms, had to be warm in order to grow properly. I thought that cold temperatures would retard or stop the growth of plants.

Seeing these things growing in frozen ground defies all my knowledge of gardening. Granted, my knowledge is limited, but I'm very curious to find out what this mushroom is.

Any ideas?

I sure wish I could help with the ID. I have these growing in my yard now, too. I'm curious as to what they could be.

gardenfish said:I sure wish I could help with the ID. I have these growing in my yard now, too. I'm curious as to what they could be.

You too, huh? What puzzles me is they are growing in frost conditions.

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Maybe brick caps .....Hypoloma sublateritium
they grow late and are better after a frost

never eat things you have not had confirmed by an expert
they also could be sulfur tufts Not eatable

several mushrooms grow into the winter months , they are just not commonly known except to wild food scavengers

cross posted , my typing is slow and my spelling worse

Thanks, Cinda. I can only identify one eatable mushroom, the morel, so those are the only ones I pick to eat. I'm not a botanist; mushrooms IDs are tricky, so I'm not risking poisoning myself.,

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With the close up I doubt the brick

brick would have a dark spore print brown/pink

Thanks for getting back.

No, I'd never plan on eating it. I don't wanna risk getting sick or dead.