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!
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Little yellow mushroom NE of the intersection of the Toklat River and the Denali Park Road |
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Curly edged mushroom found near the Toklat River in Denali NP |
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Bright orange goo? Found in Denali NP near Kantishna. This little guy was growing on a dead Alder stem in a steep water track. |
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Puffballs! Near Kantishna |
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Little dark brown onion-capped mushrooms growing in a gravel bed near Kantishna |
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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. |
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If Tim Burton was to design a mushroom, I think he come up with something like this. |
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Light Brown onion-capped mushrooms found in Healy, AK |
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Boreal forest understory mushroom #1, complete with lots of Pleurozium moss (Healy, AK) |
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Boreal forest understory mushroom #2, complete with Pleurozium moss and Vaccinium vitis-idaea (Healy, AK) |
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Peachy colored mushroom near Polychrome Pass in Denali NP |
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I found a HUGE bunch of these Amananita muscaria mushrooms near Stampede Rd in Healy, AK |
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Each of these caps was bigger a dinner plate! |
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Amanita gills |
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Super spongy Bolete! Off Stampede Rd in Healy, AK. |
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Rotten tundra toadstool |
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Tundra Lichen #1 |
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Tundra Lichen #2 |
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Tundra Lichen #3 |
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Tiny little mushroom growing in a patch of leafy liverworts (Anastrophyllum for the liverwort genus perhaps?) Found near Eight Mile Lake in Healy, AK. |
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Double-decker mushrooms. No idea what either species is. Found near Savage Campground in Denali NP |
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Buttonhole mushrooms (Savage River, Denali NP) |
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Towering mushroom gills! Found in Healy, AK |
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Lichen found on rocks in the bed of the Savage River in Denali NP |