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4d

Appointment over, took the long way back to car for some “forest bathing".
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tiny little orange mushroom emerging out from under a moss covered log and curving up to catch some light. If you look close there’s a tiny slug nearby in the moss.

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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]

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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

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]

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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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1y

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]

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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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1y

I gasped when I saw this

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the exposed roots of a large maple tree on the side of a stream bank. Water can be seen under the roots. Several large orange mushrooms are blossoming out of the roots.

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354d

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

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