Sylvan Mist

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Math Educator who has discovered the pleasures of (mostly urban) foraging. Pssst I’m one of those childless cat ladies. 💙

It’s difficult to convey how massive this log is that is in the process of being broken down by Fomitopsis quercina
Tan mulch maid mushrooms make a dramatic reappearance after an early summer rain. There were hundreds!
Round white object on grass. Is it a puffball?
Bright yellow-orange lichen growing on side of a tree.
Tan polypore hidden in the moss has gills and there are white curly strands all over it.
Blue oyster mushrooms pinning
White caps pushing up through hemlock bark dust. Seek identification is Russula brevipes, time will tell!
Slugs and slime mold?!! Really??! 🤣
Cap of tan mushroom with white cracks, pushing up through hemlock bark dust.
Painting of a green frog face on a tan stone with “RESIST” painted on the side, lodged in a tree fork.
November 2025 Amanita Muscaria
Split gill mushrooms photographed from below reminds me of the feeding fans of barnacles
Split gill fungus growing high on a fruit tree branch, photographed from below.
Tiny red globular slime mold on decaying fallen branch.
Living stump in forest amongst neighbors
Wine caps coming up in hardwood chips in a grow bag
Light tan/gold mushroom with a split cap that is lighter on the edge growing in wood chips
Large cluster of tan mushrooms with distinctive cracking on the caps. Found growing in a field near where there were still the remains of a rotting tree stump
An amazing abundance of mica caps growing at the back of a dead tree. I couldn’t get them all in one shot!
Big yawn from Kiki a silver tabby Maine Coon kitty
Branch poking through a shelf fungus or a shelf fungus growing around a new branch. It’s hard to tell.
The Splitgill mushroom (Schizophyllum commune) on an up-ended log from above.
Small fully opened tan mushroom next to a Douglas fir cone with moss
Tan stripped polypore brackets growing on the side of a tree with moss lichen and a very small weevil.
Tan bracket fungus growing on a tree with moss. View from below showing the lighter colored pore production surface underneath.
Close up of white “Cat’s tongue” fungus
A lone tiny pale tangerine mushroom peaking out of the moss on an early December afternoon.
Unidentified pale fist sized polypore with guttation droplets
A pair of elfin saddles in conifer duff.
Tiny bird’s nest fungi in woodchips
Small dark tan mushrooms against a log. They are known as “bleeding fairy cap” because the exude a red liquid when damaged
Looking down on a older splitgill fungus next to a spider web with water droplets
Deceptively cute little brown mushrooms with dark stipes. Skull and crossbones ;)
A tan/ orange mushroom growing a circle of gills on top of its cap.
Close up of a tan polypore, Fomitopsis quercina, on a fallen tree.
White frilly splitgill fungus on a log
Wet cinnamon roll in rain
Tan and white striped polypore growing on a fallen log. Early December in the pnw
amanita pantherina, a large tan colored mushroom with white spots (veil remnants). Growing in a lawn in late October.
A splitgill: Schizophyllum commune
Pholiota aurivella
Helvella lacunosa
Entoloma sericeum
An abundance of honey mushrooms on a tree stump doing their thing :)
An older Amanita with a bite out of it next to an Amanita button. Looks like the Pac-Man game character
Amanita Muscaria breaking ground in late fall
Layered Cup fungus, Peziza varia
Amanita aprica? Picture of a large mushroom with an “orange sherbet” colored cap and white veil remnants with a white stipe.
Unusual light tan colored coral shaped fungus found in PNW
A very large mushroom with my foot next to it for size comparison. Unknown species