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Nick Catania
Photo Date:
06/08/2017
A white-gilled mushroom (Russula emetica).
Jessica Beauchemin
Photo Date:
04/06/2017
Mushrooms called shaggy manes sprout from desert sand after heavy rainfall in the Mojave desert
Kristi Parsons
Photo Date:
07/11/2017
In the summer, the stinging fork falls trail in Tennessee is lined with wildflowers and mushrooms.
Sam Owens
Photo Date:
06/27/2017
Wild mushrooms in New York's Leland Preserve
Tina Hart
Photo Date:
10/28/2016
Mushrooms along the Wildwood Trail in Forest Park.
Aaron Goodwin
Photo Date:
06/17/2017
An unidentified mushroom brightens up Big Hill State Park in Tennessee.
Max Hart
Photo Date:
08/08/2014
An unidentified species of conk mushroom.
Jackie Arnal
Photo Date:
04/09/2014
The damp environment of the Sweet Creek hike in Oregon is ideal for spotting mushrooms.
Anzelina Coodey
Photo Date:
09/16/2013
A lobster mushroom grows along the trail in Opal Creek Wilderness.
Heron Marychild
Photo Date:
10/27/2013
An unidentified mushroom growing in the Willamette Foothills.
Halvor Tweto
Photo Date:
11/26/2012
An amethyst deceiver mushroom along the Clackamas River.
Jared Kennedy
Photo Date:
11/04/2016
An angel wing mushroom (Pleurocybella porrigens). It's edible status was called into question after 19 elderly people with liver problems died in Japan a few years ago.
Jared Kennedy
Photo Date:
11/04/2016
Little mushrooms like these are an easily identifiable fungus in the Pacific Northwest.
Jared Kennedy
Photo Date:
11/04/2016
A large cauliflower mushroom (Sparassis crispa) in the Pacific Northwest.
Anzelina Coodey
Photo Date:
11/04/2016
Jelly fungus (Dacrymyces palmatus).
Anzelina Coodey
Photo Date:
11/04/2016
Puffball mushroom (Calbovista subsculpta).
Patrick Mueller
Photo Date:
09/26/2016
Interesting fungi sprouting from the ground.
Halvor Tweto
Photo Date:
11/26/2012
Red coral mushroom.