Snow weighing down the tufted tops of ornamental grass under an overcast sky turned icy blue by the last light of day.
It's #BlueSkyMonday. This is the time of year when everything is dead or dormant but not yet bleached of all color. It softens the blow of the cold hitting.
#photography #winter #snow #ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear
A fungus photo a day: #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography
A little village of Hypholoma capnoides
The stipe of this Red Pinwheel fungi is a dark burgundy from emergence to cap. Just a little distance below the cap is a grouping of 21 visible insect-egg slime mold that are a nice dark amber coloration and attached to the stipe by stems that appear to be around the same length as the length of the fruiting body. Back to the fungi, The gills are an off-white and don't appear to be too crowded. This is a composite focus stack of 15 different images taken with my Canon 70D DSLR
This was a fun find today!
I believe these are Insect-egg slim mold, Leocarpus fragilis, hanging out on the upper reaches of the stipe of this likely Red Pinwheel fungi, Marasmius plicatulus.
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#SlimeMold #Fungi
#Nature #Moss
#MossMates
Close-up of small white flowers. ©Aw
Flower Day December 3rd: A white spiraea.
#photography #flowers #flower #Bloomscrolling #spiraea #sony
Pink blossoms tickled by the setting sun. ©Aw
Flower Day December 3rd: Flowers at sunset, the light is exciting
#photography #flowers #flower #Bloomscrolling #sony
A fungus photo a day: A new find that I haven’t been able to specifically identify yet. Some kind of mycena, maybe Mycena vulgaris. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography
A bee busily collecting nectar from a blue flower. ©Aw
Flower Day, December 3rd: Another busy insect at work. 🐝
#photography #flowers #flower #Bloomscrolling #bee #sony
Fruiting bodies of slime mold on wood. They are a continuous carpet of yellow balls, filling every crevice in wood like corn on the cob. In some other cracks, orange balls appear. It looks festive and colorful.
Wonderfully colorful amoebazoa.
#slimemold #myxomycetes #fungifriends #forest
A Rosy bonnet mushroom seen from a low angle. It grows among dried leaves on the forest floor. Some trees and sky in the background.
Hello there!
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Announcement + bonus 🍄🟫📷: Brittlestems, young and old.
I’ll still be posting my fungus photos here but I’m going to be posting much more on my FungiFanatic Patreon account (despite having no subscribers, lol). I want an archive of my photos and a place to write more about them. ♥️🍄 #fungifriends
Strawberries and Cream is a toothed fungi. It does not have gills on the underside of cap, instead has minute 'teeth' from which spores are created/dispersed. Overall this fungi is colored a white with pink tones. The cap be anywhere from one inch to six inch in diameter. Height varies from one to three inches in height. Usually solitary, found on the forest floor under conifers. Widespread in the Pacific Northwest. Look for it growing late summer into fall. Reference: Mushrooms of Cascadia by N. Siegel and C. Schwarz (2024).
Some fungi 'sweat' during metabolism, process is named guttation. A toothed fungi by the name Strawberries and Cream (Hydnellum peckii) is a perfect example. In this case the 'sweat' appears as #blood droplets on the cap. Highly apropos for #NightmareNov post.
A whitish brown mushroom growing on an old log, cap fully open showing its gills. Autumn woods in the background.
A trio of golden yellow mushrooms with rounded caps growing from a depression in an old log.
A small brown mushroom growing on the side of an old log.
I found an old log in the woods that was covered in various mosses, algae, and these whitish spikes. This is a close up, revealing tiny finger-like fungi.
Here's some pretty fungi.
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#nature #photography
A bonus fungus photo: I’ve seen pretty much only broken or weirdly-shaped Pyronemataceae, so seeing this almost perfect one yesterday was a surprise.
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A fly agaric mushroom on the forest floor. Grass, moss and fallen leaves around it.
Good mooorning!
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Close-up of an orange fungus growing on dead wood. The fungus is called Jelly Tear and forms gelatinous fruiting bodies. This fruiting body grows on wet dead wood on the forest floor. ©Aw
Orange Jelly Fungus (Dacrymyces chrysospermus) on dead wood. The orange color of the fungus is fascinating.
#FungiFriday #FungiFriends #ForestFriday #Nature #Mushrooms #fungi #austria #sony #jellyfungus
A bonus fungus photo: bonnets in the sun. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography
A small cluster of yellow lichen on a tree, surrounded by grey lichen.
It's a sunny day!
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#lichen
A stick on the forest floor. The end is covered in very interesting lichen. It's the green "hair" that caught my attention.
Check out the lichen on the stick! 🌿
Lovely patterns on this fungi
Not sure what this fungi is called
Shelf mushrooms with golden and Bordeaux stripes on a rotting log; found in NC
Exquisite colors on this bracket mushroom #fungifriends
A small cluster of light colored Suillus mushrooms growing from the forest floor in the center of a photo of the woods in autumn
I’ve been framed 🖼️
A fungus photo a day: Peeling oysterlings/Crepidotus mollis.
#fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography
Be looking for Cortinarius #mushrooms now. You'll be rewarded with hues of purple, blue, orange and brown. Look for telltale signs of ID via silk-like fibers on stem/stipe that usually have an orange spore coating. Get outside with this discovery in mind; it's a blast!
Closeup photo of an amanita mushroom with a yellow cap, white spots, white skirt and stem
The sun came out 🍄☀️
A pink mushroom with white flesh and gills. It's sticking up out of brown leaves and moss.
I found a pretty pink mushroom! 😍
A bright little mushroom growing on moss, photographed from below against the light. ©Aw
A beautiful mushroom for #FungiFriday
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The sawn edge of a small birch log. Growing from it are several striated brackets, long since turned green and fuzzy, and a scattering of small dark nodules like chocolate-covered peanuts.
Logging on.
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