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1y

Some nice examples of woolly bird's-nest and split-gill #fungi in the #garden #today 💚

#FungiFriday #pnw

Several tiny and extremely adorable woolly bird's-nest fungi (Nidula spp.) growing on a decaying wooden board.

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1y

Common names for this mushroom include “Apricot Jelly” and “Salmon Salad,” but I always think of those wax bottle candies and those ridiculous wax candy lips I had as a kid.

[Guepinia helvelloides]

#Nature #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mushtodon #Pilze #FungiFriday

Top down view of a light orange, salmon colored mushroom. It resembles a squished shamrock in that it has three wavy heart-shaped (though that’s a real stretch) lobes spreading out. In its center is a powdery white tube that acts as a stem. The entire mushroom is approximately 3 1/2 inches across. The mushroom is on the forest floor with nearby leaves and pine needles.

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1y

After a hearty soaking of rain you might find these tiny mushrooms popping up out of twigs and branches on the forest floor.

Pinwheel Mushroom [Marasmius rotula]

#MushroomMonday #Mushrooms #Fungi #Pilze #Nature

Closeup of a decomposing branch on pine needles and leaves. Approximately 15 tiny (about 1/4 inch wide) whitish mushrooms are growing out of the branch. Their caps are ruffled, looking like a flower with pleated, way edges. The stems are brown/dark red, getting lighter as they get closer to the cap. In the middle of the cap is a light brown circle.

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1y

Common names for the same mushroom can run the gamut from alarmist to mundane.

Is this a:
A. Common Earthball 💤 😑
B. Pigskin Poison Puffball!!!!!! 🙀☠️

Yes.
[Scleroderma citrinum]

#FungiFriday #Fungi #Mushrooms #Nature #Pilze #Mushtodon

A somewhat round, leathery mushroom that sort of resembles a potato is in a large expanse of bright green moss. The earthball is tan with cracked markings and has a nickel sized tear on its top exposing the inside black spores of the fungus.

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359d

This is the kind of summer where I feel like I’m constantly looking down to see the massive variety of shapes and colors of the fungi that is popping up.

Violet Cort [Cortinarius iodes]

#Mushrooms #Mushtodon #Fungi #Pilze #Nature #NewEngland

A mushroom about three inches tall grows from leaf litter on the forest floor. It is a classic umbrella shape mushroom with a small purple and tan on its cap. The rest of the cap is a soft lavender. It is perfectly round. The stem is harder to see but shares the same colors as the stem.

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330d

Waxcaps are tiny bursts of color you often see at this time of the year. Red, yellow, green, gray, purple… but it’s the orange ones I most enjoy. Especially when in a mound of lush moss.

They can be a bear to ID as many species have a large range of color over their short lifespans. Field guides often differ in the colors they depict.

I’m happy just to see them on my hikes.

Honey Waxcap
[Hygrocybe reidii]
Maybe

#FungFriday #Fungi #Mushrooms #Pilze #Nature #Mosstodon #Mushtodon

Sitting on a bright green mound of moss is an out of focus pinecone with its open end angled toward the camera, and a small mushroom. The mushroom is about 1.5 inches high with an orange waxy looking stem and a reddish orange waxy looking cap. In the background are various low woody shrubs and leafed trees.

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334d

It’s MEGA Mushroom Monday!

American Parasol
[Leucoagaricus americanus]

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Top down view of three large mushroom caps and a person’s outstretched hand alongside them to show how large they are. The mushrooms vary in size from 4-7 inches across. And they overlap each other. They are light tan with a brown umbo (protrusion) in the center. Each has flecks on the top which circle the umbo.

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322d

Possibly my new favourite photo. Sequoia tree with mushrooms. Need to tap to see the king mushroom. #nature #naturephotography #mushrooms #mushtadon #fungi

Taken from the ground, a photo of mushrooms from below with a tall tree in the background.

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274d

With the poison ivy leaves out of the way, I was able to get back to the Varnish Shelf mushrooms to log a final photo of this year’s life cycle.

Varnish Shelf [Ganoderma Tsugae]
Pic 1: November 13, 2024
Pic 2: June 7, 2024
Pic 3: May 29, 2024
Pic 4: May 20, 2024

#nature #FungiFriday #fungi #mushrooms #pilze #Mushtodon

This photo was taken 5 ½ months after the initial photo in this series. It shows the trunk of a hemlock tree with 6 plate like mushrooms growing out of the bark, some at eye level, some knee and ankle level. They are dark maroon and tan, cracked and slightly droopy, their attachment points weakened on the tree. At the base of the tree are autumn leaves and bright green moss.

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56d

Behold this metal af mushroom that showed up in our yard! Last night it had the classic, domed mushroom shape. By morning it had turned into this!
#mushroom
#fungi
#nature

How to describe this magnificent fungi. It sprouts up from the spiky, redwood leaf litter on a smooth, cream colored stalk - maybe 10-15cm tall (but what do I know as an American 🙄). What was last night a tall, domed cap the same color as the stem transformed overnight into a disk shape ringed with shiny, almost metallic black fronds that curl under. Other gray mushroom anatomy going on inside the ring.

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202d

Timelapse video of hair ice growing, 5 hours in 21sec

#Washington #PNW #HairIce #Fungus #Fungi #Nature #NatureLover #Timelapse #Video #Sunday #SilentSunday #Winter #WaWx

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155d

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105d

A recent @newscientist.com cartoon #fungi

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