Small and hidden in moss, also tough and leathery. These guys have tiny spines to drop their spores. Phelladon for your #MushroomMonday #fungifriends #mushrooms

Bursting from holes in a rotting log, fungi reach thin fingers for the sky, spreading spores. Ramaria tsugina with its green tips for your #FungiFriday #fungifriends #mushrooms

Some mushrooms don't need caps, but have branches. Dendrocollybia racemosa for your #MushroomMonday #fungifriends #mushrooms

Some are smooth, some are shaggy. Shaggy all over on Pholiota terrestris for your #FungiFriday #fungifriends #mushrooms

Sometimes a mushroom can be very simple, no cap, no gills, no color. Clavaria fragilis for your #MushroomMonday #fungifriends #mushrooms

Some Lactarius xanthogalactus seen today under redwood and tan oak. The gills bleed white milk, that quickly turns yellow. Which you can see if you look close. #FungiFriday #fungifriends #mushrooms

I often buy tea from Japan and Taiwan. I bought $50 in tea with $8 shipping. A few days later I got a message from DHL, they need Duty/VAT of $25. 50% of costs for duty, and I am paying that. 50% inflation for me over this year for arbitrary taxes. #tariffs #inflation

Some mushrooms come with gold dust. Hygrophorus chrysodon for your #FungiFriday #mushrooms #fungifriends

Slug in coastal California munching on a Suillus mushroom. A bit of nature for your #mushroommonday #fungifriends #mushrooms

I have no idea what to do anymore. So here is a photo of a butterfly. Taken at 12k feet in Colorado, where it was hard to breathe.

I didn't have anything of meaning to say here, but this might be the best insect photo I have taken so far. Just thought I would post.

Tiny irredescent balls on sticks on a stick. Lamproderma from the Sierra Nevada mountains for your #SlimeMoldSaturday #FungiFriends

Easily hundreds of thousands out today. Completely filled Delores and Market with people. #NoKings

Kneeling on a state senator in his own state! Um, what?

Um, what? This is our senator. We are just pushing around senators now?

Bright orange cups on the forest floor, brought up by melting snow. Found this past weekend in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Caloscypha fulgens for your #MushroomMonday #fungifriends #mushrooms

Melting snow on Mount Shasta brings black cups. Here are Donadinia nigrella for your #FungiFriday #mushrooms #fungifriends

Melting snow makes mushrooms, on the side of Mt. Shasta. From this last weekend, here is a couple of Clitocybe glacialis for your #MushroomMonday #fungifriends #mushrooms

This is a view from the surface of Comet 67P. The busy particles in the foreground are cosmic rays or bits of dust and ice. The dots moving in the background are stars.

Heading out to look for more mushrooms, hoping to find small guys in the moss and grass like this. At McCloud, CA: www.mccloudchamber.com/mushroomfest.... For your #FungiFriday #fungifriends #mushrooms

Heading to McCloud, California for the weekend, and the Mushroom Festival. Say hi if you are there. www.mccloudchamber.com/mushroomfest.... #fungifriends #mushrooms

It´s all about mushrooms! Marasmius wynneae #fungifriends #mycology #marasmius

Some mushrooms grow from the ground, some grow in the sky. This one infects trees from the top making them weak, breaking in storms. Making crags for owls and more. Then you find the mushrooms in what falls to the ground. Rhodofomes cajanderi for your #MushroomMonday #fungifriends #mushrooms

For the end of Andor, Allen life is here among us. Strange and wonderful, but actually one of the common mushrooms in sub-tropical areas. Cookeina tricholoma here from Ecuador for your #FungiFriday #fungifriends #mushrooms

It´s all about mushrooms! Peziza varia #fungifriends #mycology

A light green moth from Michigan for your #MothMonday #MacroMonday #moth

Like little elven wizard hats in shadows of the forest floor. Small mushrooms eat the rotting leaves and twigs to create the rich soil, and in their turn are eaten by bugs and snails. Entoloma quadratum for your #MushroomMonday #fungifriends #mushrooms

Ok here is a post just for my #fungifriends. Is there something that you would like to see in my mushroom photos? I have a lot of them, although most are rather clinical to capture features. But if people want more of a type of fungi, to learn something, let me know.

Hidden in the shadows at the edge of an Amazon cloud forest a hint of purple fingers reaching for the air, and releasing some spores. Clavaria schaefferi for your #FungiFriday #fungifriends #mushrooms

Like tiny wrinkled old man ears on dried dead stalks. Each smaller than the tip of your pinky. Metacampanella subdendrophora here for your #MushroomMonday #fungifriends #mushrooms

Another one for the return of The Last of Us. This grass hopper was turned into a fungus by Paraisaria amazonica. For your #FungiFriday #fungifriends #mushrooms

Deep humus of rotting hemlock trees, covered with green moss, brings forth bright yellow mushrooms. Some Entoloma murrayi for your #MushroomMonday #fungifriends #mushrooms

Since Last of Us is back, here is a bug eating fungus for you. Cordyceps militaris here has completely eaten an insect pupa and turned it into orange mushrooms for your #FungiFriday #fungifriends #mushrooms

Some chicks have all the luck 🐣✨ #chickenofthewoods #edible #dinner #yum #wild #food #foraging #mushroomhunting #hunting #forager #girlswhoforage #ediblemushrooms #mushrooms #fungifriends #chicken #woodland #naturetherapy

Sometimes in groups, sometimes in troops, mushrooms grow together. Some Turbinellus floccosus for your #MushroomMonday #fungifriends #mushrooms

Going over dna sequencing, and this Ramaria I found last year is very different from any other Ramaria sequence. Probably new species discovered here in California, get outside and you find great things - for your #FungiFriday #fungifriends #mushrooms

Double the fungus!! Show some love for this twin-headed honey mushroom Armillaria gallica 🥰🥰 #twins #double #twoheads #pair #monster #twinning #winning #nature #fungi #fungifriends #mushrooms #family #love #twinpeaks #🍄 #🍄🍄 #foraging #honeys #honeymushrooms #honey #forestproud #forests #maryland

It is a mushroom eat mushroom world out there. Here is Trichoderma pulvinatum eating an old Fomitopsis mounceae for your #MushroomMonday #fungifriends #mushrooms

The perfect little Sunday morning cluster 😍 Parasola plicatilis #garden #mulch #tiny #mushrooms #fungi #common #everywhere #nonstop #troop #family #nature #shroomscrolling #planetearth #sunday #relax #mushrooming #enjoy #positive #goodnews #mushroomnews #getoutside #blue #perfect #morning #art #🍄

A leaf covered in tiny cups. This is about one inch of this leaf. Hymenotorrendiella eucalypti for your #MushroomMonday and #MacroMonday (say that three times fast). #fungifriends #mushrooms

Speeches are starting in San Francisco #HandsOff

Things getting started here in San Francisco #HandsOff

Everything is a habitat. A crack in the bark exposed a food source for some mushrooms. Some Psathyrella for your #FungiFriday #fungifriends #mushrooms #nature

A lone small mushroom in a sea of moss. This one comes from the lichen underneath. A Lichenomphalia for your #MushroomMonday #fungifriends #mushrooms #nature

That moment you realize you spent so much time organizing dried collections, that you forget to post a fungi Friday. My mushrooms are getting in the way of my mushrooms. #fungifriends #mushrooms

[Sing.] “For I’ll cut my green coat a foot above my knee, And I’ll clip my yellow locks an inch below mine e’e. Hey, nonny, nonny, nonny. He s’ buy me a white cut, forth for to ride, And I’ll go seek him through the world that is so wide. Hey, nonny, nonny, nonny.”

A patch of moss had light orange brown freckles. Getting close they are Galerina species, each cap the size of a pepper corn. Tiny unknown things from the forest for your #MushroomMonday #fungifriends #mushrooms

Who needs caps? Who needs gills? Sometimes you just need to get up above the forest duff to get your spores out there. Here are some earth tongues, Trichoglossum hirsutum for #FungusFriday #fungifriends #mushrooms

On burnt ground, life survives. Lyophyllum anthracophilum, a common mushroom on the burnt wood a year after a forest fire. Mushrooms are an important part of the forest recovery. For #MushroomMonday #fungifriends #mushrooms