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1y

Lots of cage, lattice #fungi opening at the moment in Marin. I find these fascinating.
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A dapper Barometer Earthstar [Astraeus hygrometricus] found smack in the middle of an old lumbering road.

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Earthstars look like a ping-pong ball sitting atop opened flower petals. In this case, the sac is a speckled white and gray, and the 6 “petals” are a cracked looking black and white. The mushroom is popping up amongst large rocks and fallen leaves.

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The intricate undersides of Trichaptum biforme on a fallen birch.

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About a dozen in-focus undersides of small bracket mushrooms growing out of a fallen white birch log. Each mushroom is a ½ circle with brown, frilly (due to winter conditions) edges. The rest of the mushrooms are tan and feature tiny protrusions.

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These wonderful little Q-tip sprouty things are Swamp Beacon [Mitrula elegans] mushrooms, and up until yesterday I had never found one. In fact they aren’t listed in many of my guides or fungi websites I visit. They mostly grow on fallen conifer needles IN BOGS… so you can see why they don’t get a lot of press!

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Closeup of 4 inch water and muck in a bog. Growing up out of a bog are 7 mushrooms that look like matchsticks or Q-tips. The base are dirty white sticks with a bright yellow-orange blob on the top. Each is about 2 inches high. The top of the bog has a glass or ice appearance with dark mounds where the mushrooms come up.

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Another nine days. You can see the mushrooms flattening slightly and getting dramatically darker.

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

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Seven large, flat shelf mushrooms growing out of a standing, dead hemlock. The largest is bigger than my outstretched hand. The tops of the mushrooms and where they attach to the tree are amber brown and they lighten as they get closer to the edge with yellow being the final color. At the base of the tree is a bright green carpet of moss. In the background are green shrubs, ground cover and larger trees.

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Same tree and mushrooms from the first photo but now it is 9 days later and the mushrooms have flattened and doubled in size. Less blubby and more plate like. The previous golden yellow has darkened to caramel brown and the white edges have yellowed. The bottoms are still white.

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Closeup of the bottom 5 feet of a hemlock tree with 7 round to blubby polypore mushrooms fruiting out from the bark. The young, tender mushrooms are golden yellow on top and white on the edges and bottom. The tree is in the forest with moss as its base and other trees in the background. The bark of the tree is darkened with rain.

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Some mushrooms are hard to spot.

Not this one.

Hemlock Varnish [Ganoderma tsugae]

(And notice how the mushroom just grew around the branch that was in its personal space.)

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Top down view of a frisbee-sized shelf mushroom growing out of an embankment. It is bright! Colors ranging from cream on the outer edge to yellow, then orange, then red, to blood red at its attachment point, light up the drab forest floor of tan leaves. Toward the center of the mushroom a hemlock branch can be see apparently piercing the mushroom with a 1-inch gash. Most likely this was a case of the mushroom growing out and enveloping the branch and reconnecting on the other side.

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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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Black Trumpet mushrooms are up!!

Though that one in the back looks more like a French horn. 😁

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Closeup view of 4 Black Trumpet mushrooms. 3 of them resemble upright funnels - blackish peeled back openings leading to a thinner light grayish stem. Each is about 2 inches. The remaining one has been slightly warped so that its shape resembles a question mark. Its opening faces the side and it has a crooked stem. All 4 mushrooms are coming up out of a forest floor covered with decomposing leaves and pine needles. There are also moss covered rocks.

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This is one of my favorite mushrooms because, well, just look!

It has a few drab, unsuitable, booooring common names like “Easter Caesar’s Amanita” and “American Slender Caesar” but I always think of it as a Tequila Sunrise.

[Amanita jacksonii]

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Closeup of a brightly colored mushroom coming up from the forest floor. It’s is about 2 inches high and 3 inches wide. The cap, which is nearly flat is bright red at the umbo (dimple in the middle) and bleeds into orange, then yellow at the edges. It’s a gilled mushroom and you can see the underside gills poking through to the top at the edges.

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Closeup of what appears to be a bright red egg growing out of a white, cobwebby sheath on the forest floor. This is common with many Amanita mushrooms that start in an egg-like, button stage and then grow into their classic umbrella pose.

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Looking down on 4 brightly colored mushroom coming up from the forest floor. They are about 2 inches high and 3 inches wide. The caps, which are nearly flat are bright red at the umbo (dimple in the middle) and bleeds into orange, then yellow at the edges. The underside gills are poking through to the top at the edges. There are 2 mushrooms on the left, bumping up on each other with one of the caps now just a semi circle. The 2 mushrooms in the right are positioned so that one cap is nearly encompassing the other.

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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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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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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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I found this wonderful little patch of Painted Boletes. But one looks… well, a bit different.

The one that resembles a powdered donut is also a Painted Bolete but has been parasitized by Hypomyces completus, a white, grainy fungus.

Painted Bolete [Suillus spraguei]

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Top down view of nine mushrooms coming up out of the leaf litter and forest floor. The angle is straight down so each mushroom is only showing off its cap. Eight of the mushroom caps are red and look like they are splitting or cracking, showing off a yellowish secondary color. The final mushroom cap has a white powdery film on the entire cap making it look like a white powdered donut. There are also small green sprout and ferns alongside the mushrooms.

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A perfect day for hiking and the woods offered up this bright bouquet of Honey Mushrooms.

Ringless Honey Mushrooms
[Armillaria tabescens]

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Approximately 16 mushrooms growing up from a central spot in the moss. All the mushrooms are fresh and have bright yellow stubby caps with whitish thick stems. The stems also have jagged flaky pieces covering them. There is a tree stump behind them covered with moss and lichen.

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It’s pretty. And poisonous.
It’s pretty poisonous.

Eastern Destroying Angel
[Amanita bisporigera]

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A 4-inch mushroom growing in a patch of dead leaves and partridgeberry. The cap is pure white with a slight blueish hue and about 2 ½ inches across. The stem is also white with what look like little jagged flecks. At the top of the stem, just below the cap is a “skirt” or sheath like ring that hangs down. This may or may not be present on Eastern Destroying Angels. Do not count on this as an identifier. In the background is a forest of conifer trees.

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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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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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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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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

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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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A dapper Common Earthball. Or as it likes to be called around Halloween, a Pigskin Poison Puffball [Scleroderma citrinum]

Much more intimidating. 😄

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A rotting tree stump is in the woods, the ground covered with green winding plants and fallen leaves. Growing out of a panel of sheared off bark is a yellowish tan oval mushroom. It is about two inches high and is covered in brown wartlike attachments to its outer skin.

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The shaggy ink caps are sprouting!
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Two tall slender mushrooms with long shaggy white caps growing through fallen leaves. Their color and texture almost blends in to the gray sky and a few leaves clinging to the mostly bare tree branches in the background.

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In mid-October, I took my ridiculous 4mm fisheye lens out to the forest.

It's honestly not bad for photographing mushrooms – uniquely enabling you to get both the mushroom and the rest of the forest in frame at the same time. And it's always fun to experiment.

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A fly agaric growing on a fall-foliaged forest's floor among mosses, photographed with a fisheye lens and thus somewhat distorted.

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Indoor farming. Oyster mushrooms grown in coffee grounds #urbanfarming #mushrooms #mushtodon

A twisted mass of long stemmed mushrooms growing out of a bag on a windowsill.

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It was 4° cooler in the woods, but we were biking uphill which is great for warming up in the winter, no so much in this weather.
I stopped to take photos of slime molds and mushrooms often enough to keep cool.
#BikeTooter #SlimeMolds #Mushtodon

Chocolate tube slime mold in full “bloom”. These are dinky 10mm/0.5” tall, if that.

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Late afternoon Friday dog walk and spotted what looked like the yellow of dying moss on a log deep in the woods. “Wonder what's killing it?” I thought, walking by. Curiosity won out, I scrabbled through the brush and found the truth.
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A moss covered log with a couple large section “yellowed” but not from dying moss, but from a very large patch of tiny mushrooms covering everything. Maybe Cross-veined Troop Mushroom

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Closeup on the mushrooms all springing otu of the dark log below, their tan/yellow stalks leading into well spaced gills and then slightly upturned tops.

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