Photographed fungi encounters
Fungi
Mushrooms and other fungi I documented through caps, pores, gills, attachment points, substrate, and wider forest setting.
15 featured organisms
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Each organism appears once in the guide. Repeated observations become additional dates, settings, or Field Views within that organism's entry. Prefer to begin with color? Follow the photographed palette →
Shaggy-Stalked Bolete
Aureoboletus betulaOrange-yellow caps, yellow pores, and deeply netted stalks stand brightly against the leaf litter.
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Lynx Paw Oyster
Pleurotus levisMultiple angles show the cap, gills, attachment point, and the tree itself.
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White-Pored Chicken of the Woods
Laetiporus cincinnatusOrange clusters visible from the cove led to a sixty-foot climb up the bank.
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Red Chanterelle
Cantharellus cinnabarinusThe saturated cap stands out against moss, leaves, and damp ground.
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Yellow Chanterelles
Cantharellus minorTiny lemon-yellow fruiting bodies scatter through moss and rain-darkened leaves.
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Stalked Puffball-in-Aspic
Calostoma cinnabarinumThe red spore sac rises from a ribbed stalk surrounded by clear, aspic-like material.
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Jellied False Coral Fungus
Sebacina schweinitziiIvory branches with blunt tips rise from a fused base among russet leaf litter.
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Powder-Scale Pholiota
Flammulaster erinaceellusRust-brown scaled caps reveal tawny gills and slender stalks on decaying wood.
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Velvet-Footed Tap
Tapinella atrotomentosaA broad brown cap, pale descending gills, and a dark velvet stalk emerge from decaying wood.
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Orange Jelly Spot
Dacrymyces chrysospermusTranslucent marigold folds glow against rain-darkened bark and the larger tree.
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Club-Like Tuning Fork
Calocera corneaMinute yellow clubs stand like tiny matchsticks against bark and pale wood grain.
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Eastern Cauliflower Mushroom
Sparassis spathulataA dense mass of cream, leaflike folds rises from the forest floor.
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Rock Greenshield Lichen
Flavoparmelia baltimorensisPale-green lobes spread across the dark stone that gives this lichen its name.
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Common Earthball
Scleroderma citrinumThe paired brown fruiting bodies sit between wet leaf litter and the bright line of moving water.
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Ornate-Stalked Bolete
Retiboletus ornatipesAn olive-yellow cap rises on a deeply netted golden stalk above copper-brown leaves.
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