Target audience Teresa Marone and Drew Parker wrote, Mushrooms of the Northwest, to inform beginners how to identify mushrooms using visual characteristics. Mushroom hunters searching the Pacific Northwest states of Washington...
Category - Mushrooms
This category will feature mostly fungi that produce a fruitbody.
Mushroom forms-first step to fungi identification
My Photo Collection Assigning a form to an unknown mushroom is the first step in the identification process. I’ve amassed 9821 mushroom photos over 289 dates since 2010. Have I identified them all? No, not even close 🙂 But, I...
Bird’s Nest Fungi – 8 week+ period until “egg” exposure
I photographed a grouping of Bird’s Nest Fungi (Nidula candida) over an eight week period. I could find no blogpost, photo gallery or literature citation online capturing the timeline, biological process of peridiole (egg...
2019 Mushrooms-A Photo Review
Happy Totals The mushroom, fungi year for 2019 has ended with below normal temperatures and early snowfall (late October) 🙁 Sad, but still a good year in total for photographing these organisms. I ended up with 3381 photos taken...
Artist’s Conk, organic woodland canvas
Artist’s Conk (Ganoderma applanatum) is a perennial mushroom that has a underside surface suitable as an artist’s canvas (see featured image). Yes it is true, let me explain. Context Let me give you context first. A...
Source of Blood Colored Droplets on Forest Floor?
Discovered a couple of blood colored droplets on the forest floor recently (featured image). They were positioned below the drip-line of a rotting tree trunk, a conifer. No immediate signs of struggle or bodily remains. Looking...
“Snow bank” Mushroom hunting in early spring
Search conditions What is a snow bank mushroom? Just about all published field guides to mushrooms mention “snow bank” mushrooms. Yep, a number of mushroom species “fruit” with the exposure of ground...
Early Spring Mushroom
Cup Fungi – Pig’s Ear (Discina perlata) Natural History Overview These fungi are referred to as members of the “snowbank mycota” (Trudell and Ammirati 2009). This means these mushrooms fruit as soon as...