Grays Harbor County, Washington, US
Female, lovingly referred to as a Queen Eider.
Grays Harbor County, Washington, US
Grays Harbor County, Washington, US
At the golf course
Grays Harbor County, Washington, US
At the golf course
Grays Harbor County, Washington, US
Grays Harbor County, Washington, US
Grays Harbor County, Washington, US
This russula always grows next to dandiloions. It was found in a coastal forest. The spore print was white, width of cap up to 5 cm. the stem and flesh are all white, but the surface of the cap is zonate, with black in the middle, gradating to a dark purple to even red around the margins. stipe is brittle, and breaks like chalk.
Spores are 5 um x 2.5 um, and kidney shaped. There are two lipid droplets in this spore. When doing a gill smash, cystidia were found, they are oval shaped and wrinkled.
This boletoid was found growing in a swampy transition zone between costal grassland and coastal forest.
Cap surface yellow to orange brown, cap flesh light yellow to cream. Pore layer a bright yellow, bruising blue when handled. stem surface is yellow to orange, flesh color orange to cream. stem flesh bruising blue-green color. taste very mild, sime veil present. flesh consistancy spongey, cap surface very greasy or slimy. cap shape convex.
Stem shape is tapered at apex, texture is viscid. the stem is vaugely purinose, with reticulation near the apex. slimy annulus present. but washed away on some specimens, especially those in deeper waters.
Spores not obtained because specimen became mess instead of printing spores...
Up to 5cm tall, cap 2.5 cm at widest point. Odor and taste mild. top of cap orange brown, to red orange. cap flesh is creammy to orange-buff. gills and stipe are lilac! Cap oramentation is smooth to pubescent. cap shape convex, with a straight margin. Margin has some striations, which run up the margin of the cap. consistancy fleshy. Spores are 5 um x 1.5 um, shaped like a cat's eye. brown to light color.
A. muscaria, in it's typical form, bright red cap, white free gills, with white flesh and stem.
Spore print white to creamy, specimens were of varying ages and sizes, the biggest up to 26cm tall.
Universal veil remnants on the cap and at the bottom of the stipe. annulus present nearer to the cap than the base.
This cladonia, is a coastal species, that does not form conspicuous cups. It is a tall, unbranching cladonia, with very small apothecia at the tips of the branches. It grows strongly grouped, to the point where individual podetia tie together to make a mat of sorts. it was found in the transition zone between the coastal grasses, and forested area.
This peltigera was found on the ground growing around a large clump of moss and some Suillius flavidus. The haitat of this lichen was highly coastal, with lots of salty rain coming in most nights. Defining features are low, broad veins, with short rhizines (approx 5mm). near the margins, the veins are so low and broad they can only be distinguished from the underside by a slight difference in coloration (the veins are an orange-bown.) The upper surface dried a gray to brown color.
Growing on a rotting log close to the beach with several other species of Cladonia and mosses.
Growing on ground with leaf litter. Sitka Spruce, Red Alder, Salal and Evergreen Huckleberry present.
Growing in a camp ground at Ocean Shores in the grass.
Shore Pine, grass, salal and strawberry growing near by.
Growing under shore pine. Pores did not stain blue.
Slimy cap and short stipe hidden with in bryophytes and beach grasses.
Found on the coast! The most beautiful sponge you have ever seen!
Found near Salal and hemlocks. Pale yellow spore print. White latex!
Rhubarb stalk, yellow pores with a velvety top! The blue bruising was the give away!
Found as individuals under conifer trees on the beach on the edge of the trees and where the grass starts. Red cap with white warts left over from the universal veil.
A silly goopy little Suillus scattered in abundance along the ground of a coastal pine and grass forest. Slimy annulus, thin crooked stem, tawny tan to yella cap.