On another beautiful spring day in Vermont, I head a little south of Burlington in Addison County to search for the elusive morel.  After hours of searching I once again have emerged morel-less, but that is not to say that the forest wasn't filled with other fungi as well as trillium as far the eye could see.

Cup fungi often require microscopic tests to determine the exact species, my guess for the brown cup fungi is Peziza arvernensis

White trillium basking.

The bursting buds of shagbark hickory (Carya ovata) could rival many spring flowers in their beauty.

Shagbark hickory 

Shagbark leaves just emerging!

Can't believe it's not a flower!

Still trying to figure out what these interesting specimens are...

Large sugar maple (Acer saccharum)

The hexagonal-pored polypore (Polyporus alveolaris) has been described as 'edible but tough'...I'll pass on this one!

Polyporus alveolar is growing on a dead log.

This is why its called the hexagonal-pored polypore.

Trillium growing in abundance!

Coprinellus micaceus bursting out from the uprooted trunk of a large dead tree.

Considered a delicious edible, they must be collected and cooked before they turn into a puddle of ink. 

Can you spot the cluster?

Cross section of Corpinellus micaceus.