Fungus Amongus

This summer has been particularly rainy and damp here in AK which means the mushrooms and lichen have made a beautiful showing. I am not much good at identifying them unfortunately but I have had a lot of fun snapping their photographs. Lots of muddy knees!

Little yellow mushroom NE of the intersection of the Toklat River and the Denali Park Road

Curly edged mushroom found near the Toklat River in Denali NP

Bright orange goo? Found in Denali NP near Kantishna.
This little guy was growing on a dead Alder stem in a steep water track.

Puffballs! Near Kantishna

Little dark brown onion-capped mushrooms growing in a gravel bed near Kantishna

These were by far my favorite mushrooms I found this summer. They had inky black borders that seems to uncurl as they developed. Really beautiful and quite morbid! I found them in Kantishna.

If Tim Burton was to design a mushroom, I think he come up with something like this.

Light Brown onion-capped mushrooms found in Healy, AK

Boreal forest understory mushroom #1, complete with lots of Pleurozium moss (Healy, AK)

Boreal forest understory mushroom #2, complete with Pleurozium moss and Vaccinium vitis-idaea (Healy, AK)

Peachy colored mushroom near Polychrome Pass in Denali NP

I found a HUGE bunch of these Amananita muscaria mushrooms near Stampede Rd in Healy, AK

 

Each of these caps was bigger a dinner plate!

Amanita gills

Super spongy Bolete! Off Stampede Rd in Healy, AK.

Rotten tundra toadstool

Tundra Lichen #1

Tundra Lichen #2

Tundra Lichen #3

Tiny little mushroom growing in a patch of leafy liverworts (Anastrophyllum for the liverwort genus perhaps?) Found near Eight Mile Lake in Healy, AK.

Double-decker mushrooms. No idea what either species is. Found near Savage Campground in Denali NP

Buttonhole mushrooms (Savage River, Denali NP)

Towering mushroom gills! Found in Healy, AK

Lichen found on rocks in the bed of the Savage River in Denali NP