Wicked West 🍄 (She/Her) (@wkdwest) — Bluesky Profile

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An entirely orange mushroom with a large pointy cap grows out of dark wet soil. Standing about four inches tall, this mushroom has a smooth stipe with a twisty texture and a large cap that appears just ever so slightly bumpy on the surface and looks almost exactly like the hat of a witch in its shape.

I seriously love Phaeocollybia mushrooms. Pretty sure this is P. piceae. This one reminds me of a witches hat 🧙‍♀️🍄

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/4, 1/8, ISO 400
Stack of 10 images
11/11/24
Northern Oregon Coast

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1 day ago

A group of about twenty purple and wavy tentacle-like fingers rise from orange fir needles covering the ground. This fungi is named purple spindles for good reason. This group of spindles stands about eight inches tall at its highest.

This weird fungus is Alloclavaria purpurea, better known as purple spindles. They're so tentacley!

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/8, 1/4, ISO 400
Stack of 5 images
11/9/24
Northern Oregon Coast

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4 days ago

And I wanted to share my 2nd tier including some more really old titles from my childhood, along with Phasmo which was peak 2020 for me.

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4 days ago

Ok I had to redo this because Diablo 2 deserves a spot on my main. This is a top 9 games thing I've seen going around! These are probably my lifetimes most played games. 😁

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4 days ago

A cool little Mycena that I photographed in Oxapampa, Perú. Never seen one with this cool stem texture before, no idea which species it could be.

Olympus OM-1 / 90 mm macro lens / 180 images stacked, ISO 200, f/5.

#mushrooms #mycena #fungifriends #olympus

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5 days ago

Piggybacking on this to say that yes, I'm still planning to release custom figurine slots again this year. Just working on the backend of the ordering process 8)

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1 week ago

Meme photo of brown bears on a hill with the forest and mountains behind them. Text reads: the forest told me that we should start a revolution

Posting this again for reasons 🌲

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1 week ago

BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.

You only have a short time to comment. They are trying to destroy our forests to enrich a few logging company executives and the politicians they’ve paid off.
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1 week ago

Furb of the night

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2 weeks ago

This mushroom, growing out of dark soil and light green moss, is called plums and custard. The entire mushroom, other than the gills, which we can't see from this straight-on shot, is a light reddish-pink color with occasional spots of soft yellow. It stands about 3 inches tall. Its flesh is covered with extremely short fuzz.

This rosy-pink beauty is called plums and custard, Tricholomopsis rutilans. In spite of its yummy name, it's not recommended to eat it

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/4, 1/2, ISO 400
Stack of 33 images
11/9/24
Northern Oregon Coast

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2 weeks ago

A fan-shaped shelf fungus with tan, red-brown, and grey stripes, growing on a mossy stump

Love the colors and texture of this bracket mushroom #fungifriends

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2 weeks ago

Funguise Friends by WkdWest Wholesale via Faire Celebrating the magical world of mycology - with a cheeky twist! WkdWest (Wicked West) is a mushroom artist from the Pacific Northwest. Her characters, the Funguise Friends, not only to provide joy ...

I haven't regularly had top shop on Faire for over a year 🥲 Always short by one order! 🥺👉👈 If you have a brick and mortar shop that loves fun colors, mushrooms, and cheeky humor would you check me out: faire.com/direct/wkdwest

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3 weeks ago

A large young mushroom emerges from thick moss and tiny plants. Its stipe is a bit roughly textured and is about two inches long and one inch wide. The cap, which is just as tall as the stipe but is more bell-shaped, is bright red and has small yellow-white popcorn-like patches (i.e., warts) all over it.

I love the way Amanita muscaria looks when its surrounded by green 🌱🌿🍄

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/4, 1/8, ISO 400
Stack of 14 images
11/3/24
Northern Oregon Coast

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3 weeks ago

Here’s a nice bit of Turkey Tail for #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

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3 weeks ago

IF YOU'RE UNEMPLOYED IT'S NOT BECAUSE THERE ISNT ANY WORK
JUST LOOK AROUND: A HOUSING SHORTAGE, CRIME, POLLUTION; WE NEED BETTER SCHOOLS AND PARKS.
WHATEVER OUR NEEDS, THEY ALL REQUIRE WORK.
AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE UNSATISFIED NEEDS, THERE'S WORK TO BE DONE.
SO ASK YOURSELE, WHAT KIND OF WORLD HAS WORK BUT NO JOBS. IT'S A WORLD WHERE WORK IS NOT RELATED TO SATISFYING OUR NEEDS, WORLD WHERE WORK IS ONLY RELATED TO SATISFYING THE PROFIT NEEDS OF BUSINESS.
THIS COUNTRY WAS NOT BUILT BY THE HUGE CORPORATIONS OR GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES.
IT WAS BUILT BY PEOPLE WHO WORK. AND, IT IS WORKING PEOPLE WHO SHOULD CONTROL THE WORK TO BE DONE. YET, AS LONG AS EMPLOYMENT IS TIED TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROFITS, THE WORK WONT GET DONE.

the Black Panthers were right

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3 weeks ago

I spot Zuckercreme!!

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1 month ago

A drawing of a busted up, commercialized ice freezer with a laser loon blasting it with its eyes.

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Abolish these losers!!

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1 month ago

Photo of a dozen or so tiny, bronze coloured slime mold sporangia that look kinda like tiny cups on short stalks…the cups have covers. The slime mold is on a green, leafy lichen.

Slime mold, Craterium minutum on lichen, Parmelia sulcata. NWT, Canada.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends
The slime mold sporangia are only about 2 to 3mm high.

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1 month ago

Three mushrooms grow on mossy sloped ground. The farthest back is the largest and bends out from the ground in an almost "s" shape, its cap pointing left and hanging horizontally. The middle and right mushrooms are smaller and grow straight up. The stipe of the three mushrooms starts as yellow near the ground and quickly fade to a slightly transparent white which extends up to the cap. The caps are a yellowish brown and appear striped. Strands of slime hanging from the caps of the two mushrooms in the middle and right.

Unsure which species of Gliophorus mushrooms these are, but you can tell they're extremely viscid!

📷 Canon 5D Mk III
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/2.8, 1/125, ISO 800
Stack of 73 images
11/26/21
Northern Oregon

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1 month ago

Photo of 9 slime mold sporangia that look like tiny, orange hot air balloons lined up in a somewhat disorderly row. The sporangia are on dark coloured, dead wood with bright green moss behind them.

Slime mold, Trichia decipiens in front of bright green #moss. NWT, Canada.
#myxomycete #fungifriends
The slime mold is about 0.5cm high.

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1 month ago

Really cool Xylaria sp. found decaying wood in Point Reyes, CA. Sample taken. My uneducated assumption is it could be species CA05. www.inaturalist.org/observations... #mushrooms #fungifriends #naturephotography

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1 month ago

“Just the two of us…” 🍄‍🟫 🍄‍🟫

A few Southern #Oregon beauties! 🤩

#mushrooms #fungifriends #fungiphotography #naturephotography

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2 months ago

If you're visiting Cannon Beach, Oregon anytime soon, be sure to drop by White Bird Gallery!! I just dropped off 12 sculptures there 🥰

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1 month ago

Those are all one of a kind sculptures that stand about 8 inches tall each. All but two of those have sold I'm afraid 😅😅 I have a link to available online work in my bio.

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1 month ago

The cool part is this tree has two trunks, and one part (obviously dead) is covered with them. The other side is healthy and green still.

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1 month ago

Yes absolutely I do, that sculpture is at a gallery in Astoria Oregon called Weird Sisters :)

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1 month ago

I also found some awesome (?)schizophyllum(?) today!! Love finding urban mushrooms in my day to day. 🥰 #fungifriends #mycology #fungus

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1 month ago

I found such a good collection of (?)Turkey Tails(?) today!! 😍😍 #fungifriends #mycology #fungus

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1 month ago

Lift each other up

#MushroomMonday 🍄‍🟫
#FungiFriends 🍄

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1 month ago

A light brown and white mushroom grows out of slightly mossy and fir needle-covered ground. Its stipe is white and has a bulbous and ruffled base. Its large, dome-like cap is light brown and is covered in nearly evenly spaced white patches.

I'm not positive which species of Amanita this is, but I still found it pretty enough to be worthy of a nice portrait 🍄📸

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/4, 1/5, ISO 400
Stack of 17 images
11/3/24
Northern Oregon Coast

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