They sit still long enough for good macro shots when they are on ice.
This was growing on a rotten log next to a trail at about 1,000 feet in a river valley. The bright color caught my eye. I thought it was a moss until I looked at it through my hand lens, then I knew it was a liverwort.
It took me the better part of a day to key it out, but I got there in the end.
Growing epiphytically on TSHE, this specimen had fallen to the forest floor.
Field Journal Entry #1
Time: 10:45
Date: 10/01/12
Route: 45.996841 N, 121.777 W
Brown Creek
Lower South Fork Skokomish River
Olympic National Forest
Mason County, WA
Weather: 75 degrees Fahrenheit, blue skies with some scattered cumulus clouds
Habitat/General Vegetation:
Old Growth PNW forest of primarily Douglas fir and some Giant Western Hemlocks. Pseudotsuga menziesii, Tsuga heterophylla, Gaultheria shallon, Vaccinium parvifolium, Mnium spinolosum, Metaneckera menziesii, Isothecium myosurides, kindbergia oregana, Dicranum fuscescens, Pteridium aquilinum
Podetia structure. Green stalk with with black apothecia. Stiff, ridgid, protruding. Growing on rocks near camp road. Found at Brown Creek; Mason Co WA.
F-TB03
Time: 1140
Altitude: 287m
Sunny, dry, warm weather for past two months
Three red-belted conchs found growing on one P. menziesii snag stump.
70% canopy: primarily Pseudostuga menziesii, Acer circinatum, Gautheria shallon
F-TB02
Time: 1254
Altitude: 287m
Sunny, dry, warm weather for past two months
Lobster mushroom infection of R. brevipes poking through humus and P. menziesii duff. Neighboring R. brevipes not parasitized by H. lactiforum.
75% canopy: primarily Pseudostuga menziesii, Acer circinatum, Gautheria shallon
F-TB01
Time: 1254
Altitude: 287m
Sunny, dry, warm weather for past two months
Short stiped white Russula poking through humus and P. menziesii duff. Neighboring R. brevipes parasitized by Hypomycetes lactiforum.
75% canopy: primarily Pseudostuga menziesii, Acer circinatum, Gautheria shallon
L-TB01
Time: 1254
Altitude: 287m
Sunny, dry, warm weather for past two months
Fruticose, tufted lichen grouped on south side of mature Pseudostuga menziesii. Sorediate podetia found bearing red apothecia up to 2 centimeters in height.
15% canopy: primarily Pseudostuga menziesii, Acer circinatum, Gautheria shallon
Cortex and Medulla +: K, P
Small (3 - 10 cm cap) shelf fungus growing in bunches. Orange to tan top with a little bit of black on the edge closest to substrate. White bottom, pores on bottom. Not fully mature.
Habitat: Maple grove off the South Skokomish River trail.
Dominant trees and shrubs: ACCI ACMA PSME TSHE RUUR MANE
Substrate: On a downed Hemlock tree, growing out of a split in the log on the bark and wood. Also growing on another unidentified, wood-like shelf fungus.
beautiful!
Found only one growing by itself on the ground at the base of a large cedar snag.
Height: 14cm
Cap width: 4.9cm
Habitat: Old growth coniferous forest
Several growing on downed logs in the area.
Habitat: Old growth coniferous forest
One of the fruiting bodies found was aprox. 1 meter in diameter. It was incredible!
Other fruiting bodies found were larger than 0.3 meters in diameter.
Underside of fruiting body: white with streaks of brown and staining brown when touched
Growing on ground.
Height of specimen: 15cm
Crown diameter of Coral fungi: 10.5cm
Width of stem at base: 2cm
Dominant Species: Pseudotsuga menziesii, Tsuga heterophylla, Thuja Plicata, Acer circinatum, Polystichum munitum (Coniferous old growth forest)
There were several on the ground growing right next to each other.
-long pendulous fruticose lichen
-yellow-green color
-central cord present and large
-fibrils on branches
-branches > 1m length
-Substrate: Acer circinatum branch
-Habitat: mature conifer forest; on a slope with SE aspect
-Elevation: 700 ft.
Field Journal Entry #1
Time: 10:45
Date: 10/01/12
Route: 45.996841 N, 121.777 W
Brown Creek
Lower South Fork Skokomish River
Olympic National Forest
Mason County, WA
Weather: 75 degrees Fahrenheit, blue skies with some scattered cumulus clouds
Habitat/General Vegetation:
Old Growth PNW forest of primarily Douglas fir and some Giant Western Hemlocks. Pseudotsuga menziesii, Tsuga heterophylla, Gaultheria shallon, Vaccinium parvifolium, Mnium spinolosum, Metaneckera menziesii, Isothecium myosurides, kindbergia oregana, Dicranum fuscescens, Pteridium aquilinum
Substrate: conifer branch
Body Type: foliose
Life Form: lobes loosely attached
Surface Texture: ridged-strongly
Color: white- with tomentum under lobe, grayish-green upper lobe
Found tangled on side of trail in full shade. Must have fallen out of trees, attached to conifer limbs. Long strings attached by one point and no reproductive structures.
Laying on ground next to trail. Light yellow to 12" long. Usnea longissima also common.
10+ layers on down P. Menziesii next to creek. Some specimens 12"+ across. Mature.
Gray Top Surface. White underneath fading to black at center. Right next to Lobaria oregana
Growing in old growth Douglas fir forest with mixed understory species of Acer macrophyllum, Tsuga heterophylla, Gaultheria shallon, and Mahonia nervosa. It was fairly abundant both hanging from branches and on the ground from falling.
Pale Green Top, White Bottom. Right next to Peltigera sp. on hard soil/rock surface.
Growing innocuously on a log (not sure if pseudotsuga or tsuga) laying on the forest floor, surrounded by polystichum munitum and gaultheria shallon. I didn't actually mean to collect this one, but I accidentally knocked it off walking by and figured I might as well put it to good use!
Growing solitary, covered in needles. Looked like it just popped out of the ground in the last few days! In area with large old conifers, interspersed with Acer circinatum and the occasional Acer macrophyllum. I am curious if these Russulas are the ones that the Hypomyces lactifluorum parasite attacks? I found my Lobster mushroom specimen last time not far from this spot.
Seen in many places along this trail. White flowers with violet tint sometimes.
Substrate: outer bark of a snag (Pseudotsuga menziesii) East side
Habitat: Mahonia nervosa, Acer circinatum, Polystichum munitum,Achlys triphylla, Tsuga heterophylla, Pseudotsuga menziesii
Description: fruticose, draping, 43 cm long, perpendicular simple branching from main long strand
Collected at 11:17, 18º C, sunny, thin cirrus clouds
White irregular rosette shaped cap with red/pink and brown discoloration. A large stick and other debris assimilated by the fruiting body. Stalk dark brown and buried. Found in thick needle duff at base of P.menzeseii.
White chantrelle with orange bruising on cap/stem. White veins beneath cap. Found scattered in small area on bryophyte mass/humus. Assoc. species: A.macrophyllum, salal, elk, P.menzeseii, T.plicata.
