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Howell's Dicranum Moss (Dicranum howellii)Observer
mi5termanDescription
Found growing in a big mat on an old decaying log right off trail.
The weather was fairly cold and raining moderately.
Associated Species: Salal, bracken fern, sword fern, oregon grape, red cedar, big leaf maple, doug fir, usnea, Frullania, Luecolepis, etc.
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Hanging Millipede Liverwort (Frullania nisquallensis)Observer
mi5termanDescription
Found growing on big leaf maple bark with nearby doug fir, cedar, oregon grape, sword fern, bracken fern, huckleberry, usnea, Leucolepis spp., etc.
It was a cold and rainy day though the mosses seemed to like that as all their sporophytes were perked up.
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Joint-toothed Mosses (Class Bryopsida)Observer
mi5termanDescription
Found growing in a moderately polluted area: the sidewalk cracks next to a busy street. Must be a pretty hardy and resilient species to be content in the city's cracks.
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Order PorellalesObserver
mi5termanDescription
Pristine old growth forest.
Found growing very appressed about six feet up on a north facing red alder off trail. Battle Ax Creek was about 100 feet down slope.
The weather was overcast with some rain.
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Creeping Fingerwort (Lepidozia reptans)Observer
mi5termanDescription
While on a drizzling plant walk with my class the professor showed us many charismatic and distinguishable bryophytes in the field, one of which being Lepidozia reptans on a big decaying stump full of cladonia spp.
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Oakmoss (Evernia prunastri)Observer
mi5termanDescription
Found growing on an ornamental hardwood in a fairly polluted parking lot at The Evergreen State College.
It was moist and drizzling early on then turned more humid and warm as the rain left.
Surprisingly this parking lot had a huge amount of species diversity. Other lichen genera include: usnea, platismatia, lobaria, bryoria, and cladonia. Other plants like doug fir, cedar, big leaf maple, oregon grape, huckleberry, sword fern, and bracken fern were nearby.
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Reindeer Lichen (Cladonia portentosa)Observer
mi5termanDescription
Here on an Evergreen State College field trip doing FIAA microplot surveys.
The rolling landscape offers a unique habitat for dandelions, brackenfern, vine maple, nipotrichum, harebell, cladonia, and bracken fern.
Though my picture is sunny it was in fact cloudy overcast with a bite to the air.
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Common Feather-Moss (Kindbergia praelonga)Observer
mi5termanDescription
Old growth forest comprised of doug fir, hemlock, cedar trees, vine maple, alder, big leaf maple, rhododendron, maidenhair fern, sword, fern, huckleberry, usnea, pseudocyphellaria, peltigera, hypogymnia, etc.
The mosses and liverworts were dripping wet even though it had not rained for 24+ hours.
The best place I found for species diversity proved to be old landslide rock faces.
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Juniper Haircap Moss (Polytrichum juniperinum)Observer
mi5termanDescription
Having recently gone through a controlled burn, GHP offered sparse specimens that survived the fire. Across a dirt road lay unburned territory which I did not traverse. In the terminal reaches of the preserve ran black river protected by many Quercus garryana oak trees.
The majority of GHP is prairie land which offers unique and exclusive species and interactions. Amidst the charred fields grew Polytrichum juniperinum in rough shape. I noticed it right away from the persistent sporophytes that reached up towards the sky. Carefully digging a small section of the mat away from its substrate I took a measurement of its highest growth form of 9cm. Only the top gametophyte leaves sustained their green glory; the rest were a burnt red-orange.
The capsule had a very minute peristomal teeth left without any calyptra and the seta was especially delicate and dry.
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Pale Oyster (Pleurotus pulmonarius)Observer
mi5termanDescription
Just after a big freeze I went foraging in Watershed Park and among the numerous species I found this was growing through the cold.
Weather had to be 35-40 degrees during the day and in the 20s at night.
Found on a nursery log laying on damp soil which was fed by a nearby bog.
Nothing out of the ordinary except their hiding place very low to the ground.
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Sulphur Tuft (Hypholoma fasciculare)Observer
mi5termanDescription
Found growing in a trimmed tree planter in the soil off of just one measly twig.
Weather was and had been rainy around 50-55 degrees for the past few days.
I walk past this area all the time and the mushrooms only seemed to show on the most rainy of days.
Spore print was dark brown and gills were an electric yellow-green. Spores measured 5.2 x 4.55.
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Toothed Jelly Fungus (Pseudohydnum gelatinosum)Observer
mi5termanDescription
The weather was a cold but dry 40° without having rained for a few days.
I had found P. Gelatinosum next to a marsh on a nursery log with almost an impenetrable layer of snags surrounding it. Lysichiton was about the only thing nearby still thriving in the cold weather. Bunches and bunches of ochre to purple ramaria were heavily prevalent as well.
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White Coral Fungus (Clavulina coralloides)Observer
mi5termanDescription
Found scattered on TESC's campus. Most was being parasitized by Helminthosphaeria Clavariarum giving them a purple-grey to black color.
Doug fir, bracken fern, and sword fir all nearby. Found growing on moist soil with decaying leaves under the cover of salal.
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Zeller's Bolete (Xerocomellus zelleri)Observer
mi5termanDescription
Mature specimen found at the base of a fir tree with salal and sword fern nearby.
Weather was a dreary 50° and overcast with rain.
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Pear-shaped Puffball (Apioperdon pyriforme)Observer
mi5termanDescription
Weather was a dry mid 40s° at the start of a cold front that lasted several days.
Found growing in a small crevice beside a rock directly on-trail with needle and leaf debris.
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mi5termanDescription
Weather was a dry mid 40s° at the start of a cold front that lasted several days.
Found caespitosely growing on a mossy riparian bank with partial sun and plenty of moisture as well as decaying needles. Most specimens were ranging from 60-90 mm in height.
C. Sachalinensis was an ochre color with wrinkled yet smooth flesh with a tomentose lower stipe that, when peeled away, revealed a leathery cartilaginous strip of fungi inside.
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mi5termanDescription
Found squeezing tightly from beneath a footbridge; cutting it away from its substrate proved more difficult than expected suggesting attachment to the footbridge instead of soil -- its exact substrate was hard to tell.
The entire specimen was 14 mm tall and had a maximum width of 8 mm. The tips were green but otherwise a dingy ochre color lacking a colored band on the lower stipe.
Weather was a dry mid 40s° at the start of a cold front that lasted several days.
Spores were yellow and ovoid.
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Brittlegills (Genus Russula)Observer
mi5termanDescription
Only found two of these russulas at the time. Their taste was an acrid pepper but didn't smell of anything specific. The stipes were spongy-solid and had no shade of red while the cap had a sunburst of orange to red deterring me from identifying it as R. Rosacea.
The weather was overcast with light rain around 50°.
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Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria)Observer
mi5termanDescription
Found on a blustery day in a bunch of about 10 or 12 other A. Muscarias.
Some had been chomped by local animals but most caps were intact ranging about 6-10 inches in diameter, some with universal veil patches on the cap and some without.
Found them on a sandy berm hidden in dune grass with Sitka Spruce nearby.
