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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The intricate undersides of Trichaptum biforme on a fallen birch.
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!
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
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.)
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]
Black Trumpet mushrooms are up!!
Though that one in the back looks more like a French horn. 😁
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]
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]
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]
I gasped when I saw this
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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]
A perfect day for hiking and the woods offered up this bright bouquet of Honey Mushrooms.
Ringless Honey Mushrooms
[Armillaria tabescens]
It’s pretty. And poisonous.
It’s pretty poisonous.
Eastern Destroying Angel
[Amanita bisporigera]
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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It’s MEGA Mushroom Monday!
American Parasol
[Leucoagaricus americanus]
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
A dapper Common Earthball. Or as it likes to be called around Halloween, a Pigskin Poison Puffball [Scleroderma citrinum]
Much more intimidating. 😄
The shaggy ink caps are sprouting!
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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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Indoor farming. Oyster mushrooms grown in coffee grounds #urbanfarming #mushrooms #mushtodon
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.
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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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