RHH's photos with the keyword: mushroom

I believe this mushroom is the Blackfoot Paxillus but am not certain. It was photographed on a cold and snowy morning along the Park Butte trail in the North Cascades.

Photographed along the Park Butte-Railroad Grade trail in the North Cascades, there were hundreds of these attractive mushrooms, all in good condition in spite of a frost the night before. The Fly Agaric is a strongly psychadelic mushroom but also very dangerous and possibly deadly.

I believe (thanks to J. Gafarot) that this is Polyporus squamosus or Dryad's Saddle, a Bracket Fungus. It was photographed in Dowagiac Woods in Michigan and is an example here of guttation, mushrooms and plants producing beads of "sweat". Dowagiac Woods is in southern Michigan and an area where some of the original forest has been preserved.

This is an example of guttation in fungi and other plants, the exudation of drops of "sweat", a process by which a plant rids itself of excess moisture. The mushroom is Polyporus squamosus or Dryad's Saddle.

I believe that this is a fungus called Dryad's Saddle (Polyporus squamosus). It is exhibiting a strange phenomenon called guttation, the exudation of drops of moisture.

This, if I am not mistaken, is a fungus known as Dryad's Saddle, Polyporus squamosus. It is exhibiting a phenomenon known as guttation, the exudation of drops of moisture.

This mushroom was photographed in Aman Park in western Michigan. J. Gafarot has identified it as Polyporus squamosus.

I believe these are the yellow form of Amanita muscaria, the Fly Agaric, an hallucenogenic mushroom. They were photographed along the trails at Rosy Mound Natural Area near Lake Michigan.

I believe this is the Yellow Finger Coral Fungus. It was photographed at the Ravines in western Michigan and was one of the msuhrooms we found while walking there with other family members.

Amanita muscaria or Fly Agaric is a known for its hallucenogenic qualities. We did not sample it for that reason, bjut did photograph it at the Ravines, a park near Grand Valley State University in Michigan. Usually a bright red this one was yellow, as were others we saw near Lake Michigan.

This was photographed near the beginning of the Park Butte trail on the south side of Mount Baker where I hiked on one of the few good days we had in October. It is the Fly Agaric, Amanita muscaria, a mushroom that has hallucinogenic properties. I've decided that I'll keep posting photos here until Ipernity disappears, though there seems little reason to do so after all the effort put into Ipernity. At this point I have little desire to start over elsewhere though I've opened an account at 23hq. I'll almost certainly not go back to Flickr, since I hate their interface and despise Yahoo. Thought I had found a happy home here, but I guess it is not to be.

There haven't been a lot of mushrooms or fungi this year due to the hot dry summer. This is one we found along the Blue Lake trail, the Conifer Coral Fungus, Hericium abietis, edible and supposed to be very tasty.

When training for our Mount Baker climb, I did the Oyster Dome trail in the Chuckanut Mountains four times, each time with a pack containing two gallon jugs of water. The trail gains 2000 feet of elevation in three miles and is less than a half hour from home, which made it a perfect training site. This was taken on one of those hikes and is, I believe, the Sulfur Shelf, a Polypore fungus that is supposed to be quite common but which I've seen only this once. It was a bit damaged but still worth photographing or so I thought.

Stropharia ambigua means the "Questionable Stropharia" but why it would be called that I do not know. This example, like the other mushrooms I've been posting recently was photographed on a hike in Wallace Falls State Park last autumn. It is claimed that eaten it tastes like old leaves, but its fitness for consumption is questionable (and perhaps the reason for its name). Some list it as poisonous.

This is Amanita gemmata, the Gemmed Amanita, photographed in Wallace Falls State Park last autumn. Though very beautiful, it is toxic. Eating it causes hallucinations, vomiting, diarrhea, stomach pain and there are even a few cases of death recorded as a result of eating this species.

Last autumn we hiked in Wallace Falls State Park and saw more mushrooms and fungi than we had ever seen before, many of them very beautiful. If I am not mistaken, this is Russula bicolor, an edible species.

A recent orchid hunt in eastern Washington turned into a mushroom hunt when we began finding these. We picked a whole bag full of them and had them for supper three nights in a row. Hard to beat these for eating.

Taken in Washington park, this is an older shot of some mushrooms that I believe belong to the groups of fungi known as Ink Caps. I do not know the species, however. Possibly it is Coprinellus micaceus, the Mica-cap.