Mushrooms

The Fifth Kingdom

Desert Shaggy mane Mushroom, podaxis postillaris

Mushroom

My brother's house at Island Park, Idaho

Mushroom

My brother's house at Island Park, Idaho

Note the small spider hanging under the left side of the mushroom

Astraeus hygrometricus or
Hygroscopic Earthstar

Canyon Point Campground

Artist Cronk or
Ganoderma megaloma

Used by artists to sketch on by 'scratching' or pressing the white surface.
Lewis and Clark Park
46.13395995246848, -123.88024882593503 

Mushroom

Common Puffball or Lycoperdon perlatum 

in Olympic National Forest by Lake Crescent  Pyramid Peak Trailhead, Washington 48.06595723264496, -123.86129568517286

Common Puffball showing spore dispersal or Lycoperdon perlatum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rpp3wyqY9U

redleg Toughshank or Gymnopus erythropus 

in the Hoh RAIN Forest 

Ochre-banded Cronk or Fomitopsis ochracea

Unknown snail. Possibly Pacific Sideband or Monadenia fidelis on a unknow mushroom

Whatever the snail is, it was eating the mushroom.

possibly Marasmiellus candidus

possibly Marasmiellus candidus

Fringed Earthstar mushrom or geastrum saccatum

Note the small beetle on the right side of the mushroom

Hall Of Mosses Nature Trl, Forks, WA 98331, USA. 

Hall Of Mosses Nature Trl, Forks, WA 98331, USA. 

old zeller's bolete or xeroceomellus zelleri

Hall Of Mosses Nature Trl, Forks, WA 98331, USA. 

old zeller's bolete or xeroceomellus zelleri


Unknown snail. Possibly Pacific Sideband or Monadenia fidelis

Whatever the snail is, it was eating the mushroom

Unknown snail. Possibly Pacific Sideband or Monadenia fidelis

Whatever the snail is, it was eating the mushroom.