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Boletes and Allies (Order Boletales)Observer
wildsuburbiaDescription
Location: backyard; Habitat: leaf mulch; Size: cap - ~15 cm, stem - ~ 8-12 cm; cap: reddish brown, gold, dry, flat, curls up on edges. Pores: decurrent, gold; No volva, no ring, slight bluing or bruising on stem. Stem - shaggy - couldn't see pores on stem.
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Mushrooms, Bracket Fungi, Puffballs, and Allies (Class Agaricomycetes)Observer
wildsuburbiaDescription
Parkway, mulch, location where a magnolia tree was removed a year ago. Clump of 4 caps, Largest cap - 20 cm diameter, stem - 12 cm. Cream color, smooth and dry. Latex absent. Gills of varying length, adnexed. No ring or volva.
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Monarch (Danaus plexippus)Observer
wildsuburbiaDescription
Monarch butterfly larva on Asclepias fascicularis
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Gray Buckeye (Junonia grisea)Observer
wildsuburbiaDescription
Common buckeye butterfly on Eriogonum fascciculatum
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Buffalo Gourd (Cucurbita foetidissima)Observer
wildsuburbiaDescription
Growing with Acmispon glaber
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California Mugwort (Artemisia douglasiana)Observer
wildsuburbiaDescription
Pseudognaphalium on left
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Grass Skippers (Subfamily Hesperiinae)Observer
wildsuburbiaDescription
Grass-skipper, Umber skipper?, (Poanes melane?)
