Mushrooms & some Look-alikes - 2 Found around our home and the adjacent USFS lands |
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2017 - 2018: |
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Orange Peel Cup Fungi (Aleuria aurantia) |
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Unknown white mushroom |
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This mushroom has seen better days, and appears to be melting! br> |
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Orange Bolete |
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Immature Orange Bolete |
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Indian Pipes, aka Ghost Flowers (Monotropa uniflora) Not a fungus, but an herbaceous perennial plant. It lacks chlorophyll but gets its nutrients through a mutually beneficial relationship with a fungus in the soil. |
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Pinesap, aka Dutchman's Pipe (Hypopitys monotropa, syn. Monotropa hypopitys) The multi-flowered cousin of the previous plant, Pinesap is also a myco-heterotroph, getting its food through parasitism upon fungi rather than photosynthesis. |
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Flower detail |
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Honey Mushrooms (Armillaria mellea) on dead tree. |
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Another less mature group, on the same tree. |
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Yellow mushrooms |
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A selection of Coral fungi (Clavaria sp.) |
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Amanita jacksonii, recently emerged from its volva... |
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It was so rainy in early summer that even the mushrooms were moldy... |
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A fallen soldier... |
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Red Slime Mold (Tubifera ferruginosa) |
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Unidentified mushroom |
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Harvesting some Chanterelles for cooking... |