Found on the coast! The most beautiful sponge you have ever seen!
Found under D.fir, hidden in the duff! Beautiful yellow decurrent gills! Yummy!
Found near Salal and hemlocks. Pale yellow spore print. White latex!
Cottony partial veil! Yellow cap! Scales on stalk, though they disappear quickly!
Rhubarb stalk, yellow pores with a velvety top! The blue bruising was the give away!
Yellow at the base, always found growing on hardwoods, with a brown cap!
Yummy! Convex cap. Stripe is bear. Penny brown top!!
Yummy! Convex cap. Stripe is bear. Penny brown top!!
Universal veil remnants on a marvelous red cap! Volva and annulus present. Growing in dirt and gregarious!
Orange peel jelly fungi that prefers bare soil as its substrate!
Brilliant fluorescent yellow! Tufted and richly branched. White medulla!
I spotted this little fungi because it is a beautiful sherbert color! Even the gills! This species is often called a pine-spike. Found near a D.fir.
Shiny red brown cap w a very short black stem. Broadly convex. Found on a hardwood.
Cute little white mushrooms that were only growing out of D.fir cones!
Fruticose thallus, attached by a single hold-fast. Branches flattened. Soredia present. Green upper surface, white under-belly! Softer than Ramalina. This Lichen makes a marvelous purple dye!!!
Pale green thallus, reticulated and ridged. This Lobaria lacks soredia and is K + Y on the medulla.
Foliose thallus w puffy lobes! Lobes were pressed to substrate. Found on a conifer.
Immature specimen found in clusters. The caps are brown w black hairs. This fruiting body grows on wood. Annulus present on each Basidio. The stalk is tough and fibrous. Mycorrhizae glows in the dark!
White,almost translucent basidomycete! Found under D. fir. The cap is lined with tiny teeth!
Mycorrizal species found near D.fir. Universal veil remnants present. Amazing copper cap, yellow gills, white stem w an annulus.
This lovely lichen was ALL over Opal Creek and is found on bark and wood. Epiphytic substrate. The thallus has abundant coralloid branches that are roundish in cross section and smooth.
This lichen looks like blue coral and was found on a old lava site. The medulla glows under UV light and there is mazaedium present. The stalks are tomentose.
This is a cup forming Cladonia! Perfect for a fairy to nestle in. Smooth goblet shaped podetia. Approx 3cm tall. Brown apothecia, lacking soredia. Found on a moss covered rock/
Matchstick lichen! Cephalodia present on the primary thallus. Apothecia is globulose w gray stalks about 3cm tall.
Found on mossy dead wood. Smooth podetia unlike the C. bellidiflora. Red apothecia w soredia.
Angel Wings growing out of an old conifer. Lacked a stem. Gills were white (all the way to the edges)! Basidomycete. Edible but not incredible!
