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Ribbon Rag Lichen (Platismatia stenophylla)Observer
mountainhemlockDescription
Not drooping from substrate, light green upper surface, dark brown to black lower surface, not as broad as Platismatia glauca.
Found attached to a down branch.
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Lettuce Lichen (Lobaria oregana)Observer
mountainhemlockDescription
Large leaf like thallus, upper surface lettace green with ridges, lower surface creamy white.
Found attached to a down branch.
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Candy Lichen (Icmadophila ericetorum)Observer
mountainhemlockDescription
Pea green textured fluffy crustose with pink apothecia.
Found on the side of a decaying stump.
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Shaggy Mane (Coprinus comatus)Observer
mountainhemlockDescription
Very mild and light smell, Tastes yummy, Cap was slightly slimy before picked, cylindrical, textured, and shaggy. Light tan in color getting darker towards the top. Gills are white crowded and free. The stipe is creamy in color, smooth and pointed at the base.
Found in a pile of bark chips along one of the paths to the parking lot.
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Wolf Lichen (Letharia vulpina)Observer
mountainhemlockDescription
Florescent yellow green, fruticose, no apothecia.
Found attached to a down branch.
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Order PezizalesObserver
mountainhemlockDescription
Very fleshy tiny cup fungi, creamy light brown base color, but then covered in a coffee bean brown fuzz/hairs. Has tiny eyelashes.
Found on decaying wet wood in a very boggy ecosystem.
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Mushrooms, Bracket Fungi, Puffballs, and Allies (Class Agaricomycetes)Observer
mountainhemlockDescription
Uniform light yellow, cap convexed when young, more conical when mature. Gills are adnexed and the stipe is equal and centered. Very light smell but not unpleasant.
Found in boggy soil.
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Mushrooms, Bracket Fungi, Puffballs, and Allies (Class Agaricomycetes)Observer
mountainhemlockDescription
Coffee bean brown cap and stipe. Velvety cap, with creamy white edges white can also be found at the base of the stipe. Super tiny mushroom.
Found in marshy boggy moss.
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Deceiver (Laccaria laccata)Observer
mountainhemlockDescription
The cap is burnt orange, convexed when young, depressed plane when mature. Gills are decurrent and burnt orange. The stipe is central to the cap, tapering upward, bright burnt orange.
Found growing from marshy-wet-ness.
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Orange Rough-cap Tooth (Hydnellum aurantiacum)Observer
mountainhemlockDescription
Unusual shaped polypore, toothed gills as well as teeth on top. Creamy top, bright orange stipe. Growing in and around other plants and forest litter. Repulsive rotting smell.
Found growing from the ground.
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Common Powderhorn (Cladonia coniocraea)Observer
mountainhemlockDescription
Podetia simple, no branching, greyish green, squamules tiny.
Found on a decaying stump.
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Spiny Witch's Hair (Alectoria imshaugii)Observer
mountainhemlockDescription
Tufted Thallus, pale green-yellow, clusters of insidia present, P+Y, No cord.
Found Loose on the ground.
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Herre's Ragged Lichen (Platismatia herrei)Observer
mountainhemlockDescription
Droopy, grey-green top, brownish bottom. Not as broad as Platismatia glauca.
Found loose on the ground.
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Western Wand Lichen (Cladonia verruculosa)Observer
mountainhemlockDescription
Simple podetia, moderatly branched, podetia squamulose near the base. Sage green but brighter towards the tips of the podetia. Apothecia are dark brown.
Found in dry duff and moss on an old lava flow.
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Toy Soldiers (Cladonia bellidiflora)Observer
mountainhemlockDescription
Heavily squamulose podetia, light sage green, red apothecia, UV+, P+ orange.
Found on dry woody duff and moss over an old lava flow.
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Artist's Bracket (Ganoderma applanatum)Observer
mountainhemlockDescription
Cap: Dark Brown, dry, and woody.
Gills: White pores, waxy, staining brown when briused.
Stipe: Sessile
Substrate: Down Hemlock
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Oyster Mushrooms (Genus Pleurotus)Observer
mountainhemlockDescription
Cap: Creamy, depressed, arched, dry, and velvety.
Gills: Decurrant, long, unequal, creamy.
Stipe: Flexuous and creamy.
Substrate: Sprouting from a decaying cavity on a live Western Hemlock.
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Red-banded Conks (Complex Fomitopsis pinicola)Observer
mountainhemlockDescription
Cap: Sessile, woody, golden yellow-orange to dark brown when aged.
Gills: Broad, obtuse, waxy, Cream color.
Stipe: None
Substrate: Down Douglas Fir.
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Red-cracking Bolete (Xerocomellus chrysenteron)Observer
mountainhemlockDescription
Cap: surface dry,dark brown to olive brown mottled, pinkish near the margin.
Gills: Large pores olive-brown, bruising blue
Stipe: dry, longitudinally ridged, yellowish, with reddish tints mostly predominating the base.
Substrate: Duff/soil/litter
