Tiny mushrooms spotted on a hike in the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve the other day. The taller of the two is about 1 cm high.
#mushrooms #fungi #fungifriends #hiking #PenderIsland #southerngulfislands
Slime mold on the beach
#slimemold #fungifriends #beach #PenderIsland #southerngulfislands
Beach lichen at Brooks Point, Pender Island
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Tiny tiny lichen (Cladonia sp?)
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Tiny mushrooms and moss
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Tiny trumpets
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Lichen (Cladonia sp?) along a trail in Anchorage
#lichen #fungifriends #autumn #alaskasky
Moss and wind-scattered birch seeds, plus a tiny striped bug
#moss #birch #seeds #insects #autumn #alaskasky
Little mushroom along an autumn trail 🍂 🍄🟫 🍂
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Tiny mushroom on the trail
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I found these today in Anchorage and haven’t seen them before. They’re not in my new Alaska mushroom guide, but some online digging makes me think they’re violet fairy cups or purple jellydisc. Maybe Ascocoryne cylichnium?
#fungifriends #mushrooms #fairycups #cupfungi #violet #purple #alaskasky
Slime mold party! This was about a square inch of a log with a lot going on.
#slimemold #fungifriends #amoebas #alaskasky
Blue-green wood cup (Chlorociboria sp, probably C. aeruginascens) on a fallen log on an Anchorage trail
#fungifriends #mushrooms #woodcups #elfcups #turquoise #alaskasky
Tiny pinpoints of slime mold on a fallen log in Anchorage
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Slime mold on a fallen log in Anchorage
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I’m not sure what this little slime mold is. The only thing in my guidebook that resembles it is Arcyria incarnata, carnival candy slime mold. It was on the underside of a log in the Anchorage woods.
#slimemold #fungifriends #alaskasky
Here are a couple closer pictures, with one that I cut open. There were several other species on the log, I’ll post photos this evening.
I can check! I’ll be able to find the log again.
I didn’t cut them open
Mature wolf’s milk slime mold (Lycogala epidendrum) on a fallen log in Anchorage
#slimemold #ameoba #plasmodium #fungifriends
#alaskasky
Conifer orange jelly (Dacrymyces chrysospermus) on a fallen spruce in the Anchorage woods
#fungifriends #fungus #jelly #orange #mushrooms #alaskasky
Tiny little slime mold? Maybe Trichia decipiens or another Trichia sp? Spotted on a log in the woods in Anchorage.
#slimemold #fungifriends #mushrooms #amoeba #alaskasky
Yellow fairy cups (Calycina citrina) on a fallen log in the Anchorage woods
#fungifriends #mushrooms #fairycups #lemonyellow #alaskasky
I’m not sure what kind of cup fungi these are that I came across on a neighborhood dog walk, but they’re really cool.
#fungifriends #cupfungi #mushrooms #alaskasky
A single blob of wolf’s milk slime mold (Lycogala epidendrum) on tree roots. I just learned that it’s not a fungus but a type of amoeba! I can hear Mr. Spock now: “Fascinating”.
#fungifriends #amoeba #slimemold #alaskasky #happystartrekday
Pholiota sp on a birch tree in Anchorage
#mushrooms #fungifriends #birch #alaskasky
Yellow jelly-drops (Heterotextus luteus) in the temperate rainforest, Girdwood Alaska.
#fungifriends #mushrooms #jellyfungus #rainforest #alaskasky
A little wood frog (Lithobates sylvaticus) that I saw on a dog walk this morning. One of two frog species that live in Alaska, it’s the only one that lives above the Arctic Circle. They freeze during the winter and thaw in spring.
#frogs #amphibians #nature #dogwalks #tinyurbanwildlife #alaskasky
Lichen (Cladonia sp) along a trail in Hatcher Pass
#lichen #fungifriends #hiking #hatcherpass #alaskasky
