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A wrinkled jelly-like bright orange fungus growing on a branch

Witch's butter #fungi

A Rosy bonnet mushroom seen from a low angle. It grows among dried leaves on the forest floor. Some trees and sky in the background.

Hello there!

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Announcement + bonus 🍄‍🟫📷: Brittlestems, young and old.

I’ll still be posting my fungus photos here but I’m going to be posting much more on my FungiFanatic Patreon account (despite having no subscribers, lol). I want an archive of my photos and a place to write more about them. ♥️🍄 #fungifriends

Strawberries and Cream is a toothed fungi. It does not have gills on the underside of cap, instead has minute 'teeth' from which spores are created/dispersed. Overall this fungi is colored a white with pink tones. The cap be anywhere from one inch to six inch in diameter. Height varies from one to three inches in height. Usually solitary, found on the forest floor under conifers. Widespread in the Pacific Northwest. Look for it growing late summer into fall. Reference: Mushrooms of Cascadia by N. Siegel and C. Schwarz (2024).

Some fungi 'sweat' during metabolism, process is named guttation. A toothed fungi by the name Strawberries and Cream (Hydnellum peckii) is a perfect example. In this case the 'sweat' appears as #blood droplets on the cap. Highly apropos for #NightmareNov post.

A whitish brown mushroom growing on an old log, cap fully open showing its gills. Autumn woods in the background.

A trio of golden yellow mushrooms with rounded caps growing from a depression in an old log.

A small brown mushroom growing on the side of an old log.

I found an old log in the woods that was covered in various mosses, algae, and these whitish spikes. This is a close up, revealing tiny finger-like fungi.

Here's some pretty fungi.
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#nature #photography

A bonus fungus photo: I’ve seen pretty much only broken or weirdly-shaped Pyronemataceae, so seeing this almost perfect one yesterday was a surprise.
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Bright orange Pycnoporus bracket fungus on a branch

Happy Halloween 🎃 #fungifriends

A fly agaric mushroom on the forest floor. Grass, moss and fallen leaves around it.

Good mooorning!

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Close-up of an orange fungus growing on dead wood. The fungus is called Jelly Tear and forms gelatinous fruiting bodies. This fruiting body grows on wet dead wood on the forest floor. ©Aw

Orange Jelly Fungus (Dacrymyces chrysospermus) on dead wood. The orange color of the fungus is fascinating.
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A bonus fungus photo: bonnets in the sun. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography

A small cluster of yellow lichen on a tree, surrounded by grey lichen.

It's a sunny day!

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#lichen

A stick on the forest floor. The end is covered in very interesting lichen. It's the green "hair" that caught my attention.

Check out the lichen on the stick! 🌿

Lovely patterns on this fungi

Not sure what this fungi is called

Shelf mushrooms with golden and Bordeaux stripes on a rotting log; found in NC

Exquisite colors on this bracket mushroom #fungifriends

A small cluster of light colored Suillus mushrooms growing from the forest floor in the center of a photo of the woods in autumn

I’ve been framed 🖼️

A fungus photo a day: Peeling oysterlings/Crepidotus mollis.
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Be looking for Cortinarius #mushrooms now. You'll be rewarded with hues of purple, blue, orange and brown. Look for telltale signs of ID via silk-like fibers on stem/stipe that usually have an orange spore coating. Get outside with this discovery in mind; it's a blast!

Closeup photo of an amanita mushroom with a yellow cap, white spots, white skirt and stem

The sun came out 🍄☀️

A pink mushroom with white flesh and gills. It's sticking up out of brown leaves and moss.

I found a pretty pink mushroom! 😍

A bright little mushroom growing on moss, photographed from below against the light. ©Aw

A beautiful mushroom for #FungiFriday
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The sawn edge of a small birch log. Growing from it are several striated brackets, long since turned green and fuzzy, and a scattering of small dark nodules like chocolate-covered peanuts.

Logging on.

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An orange Amanita mushroom with white spots

So mush love 🍄🫶✨

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Like points on a compass…

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Bonus fungus photo: Think all mushrooms are short? This moss bell begs to differ. Close-up below. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography

I found a white mushroom in the woods today and took a look underneath.

Pretty mushie. 🍄🌿🍂

Closeup of two yellow Amanita mushrooms growing snuggled close, one big, and one small. The veil from the bigger one is making the shape of a little curl that is resting on the top of the cap of the small round one

When the tall friend uses the short friend as an arm rest 💛💛

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A Western Honey Bee seeks nectar from a cluster of purple Aster flowers.

#Photography
#EastCoastKin
#Flyday
#Macro
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A fungus photo a day: I found another clump of wooly chanterelle/Turbinellus floccosus, younger than the ones I posted the other day. Look at those colors and the baby! Other shots below. #fungifriends #fungi#mycology #naturephotography

A macro photograph of the underside of a large, wavy-capped mushroom growing amongst moss, fallen leaves, and small plants on the forest floor. The gills of the fungus are clearly visible, and the overall tone is dark and earthy.

Wavey Gills. #mycology #mushroom #fungus #nature #woods #foraging #forest #macrophotography #detail #closeup #moss #autumnvibes #naturephotography #smartphonephotography #photography