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  • The bracket fungi (or shelf fungi) comprise numerous species of the Polypore Family (Polyporaceae), in the class basidiomycete. Technically, these are not plants, gaining energy through the decomposition of dead and dying plant matter. The visible portion of a bracket fungus consists of the fruiting, or reproductive, body. Such structures may be an extremely long-lived and woody, adding a new layer of living fungal matter at the base of the structure each year. The vegetative portion of the fungus resides within the body of the tree (or dead stump), where it consists of an extensive network of filamentous fungal threads. Western Washington.
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  • The bracket fungi (or shelf fungi) comprise numerous species of the Polypore Family (Polyporaceae), in the class basidiomycete. Technically, these are not plants, gaining energy through the decomposition of dead and dying plant matter. The visible portion of a bracket fungus consists of the fruiting, or reproductive, body. Such structures may be an extremely long-lived and woody, adding a new layer of living fungal matter at the base of the structure each year. The vegetative portion of the fungus resides within the body of the tree (or dead stump), where it consists of an extensive network of filamentous fungal threads. Western Washington.
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  • Clavarioid fungi (Coral fungi) are in the Basidiomycota group. Peter Lougheed Provincial Park, Kananaskis Country, Alberta, Canada.
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  • Brackets of fungi cover a tree trunk. Lake Chuzenji (Chuzenjiko) is a scenic lake in the mountains above the town of Nikko, in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. It's at the foot of Mount Nantai, Nikko's sacred volcano, whose eruption blocked the valley below, thereby creating Lake Chuzenji 20,000 years ago. Chuzenjiko's shores are mostly undeveloped and forested except at the eastern end where the growing hot spring town of Chuzenjiko Onsen was built. Chuzenjiko is especially beautiful in mid to late October, when the autumn colors reach their peak along the lake's shores and surrounding mountains. See panoramic views of Lake Chuzenji along the Chuzenjiko Skyline, an eight kilometer long former toll road accessible by bus or car, which also connects to scenic hiking trails.
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  • White oyster mushrooms/fungi, grow along the Skyline Divide trail, in Mount Baker Wilderness, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington, USA.
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  • Brackets of fungi cover a tree trunk. Lake Chuzenji (Chuzenjiko) is a scenic lake in the mountains above the town of Nikko, in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. It's at the foot of Mount Nantai, Nikko's sacred volcano, whose eruption blocked the valley below, thereby creating Lake Chuzenji 20,000 years ago. Chuzenjiko's shores are mostly undeveloped and forested except at the eastern end where the growing hot spring town of Chuzenjiko Onsen was built. Chuzenjiko is especially beautiful in mid to late October, when the autumn colors reach their peak along the lake's shores and surrounding mountains. See panoramic views of Lake Chuzenji along the Chuzenjiko Skyline, an eight kilometer long former toll road accessible by bus or car, which also connects to scenic hiking trails.
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  • A cluster of white fungi forms brackets on a tree. See views of the Presidential Range from the Ledge Trail in Randolph Community Forest in the Crescent Range, starting along US Highway 2, in New Hampshire, USA. The White Mountains (a range in the northern Appalachian Mountains) cover a quarter of the state of New Hampshire. Leaf peepers love the peak of autumn foliage around the first week of October.
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  • Orange fungi grows on the Overland Track, in Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, Tasmania, Australia. The Tasmanian Wilderness was honored as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1982, expanded in 1989.
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  • Admirable Boletus mirabilis mushroom (fungi) grows in Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area on the trail to Rachel Lake, in Wenatchee National Forest, Washington, USA.
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  • Fungi thrive in damp Melba Gully, Victoria, Australia. Formerly a State Park and now part of Great Otway National Park, Melba Gully protects a small pocket of natural rainforest which escaped bushfires in the Otway Ranges near Apollo Bay. Enjoy basic picnic facilities and the 35 minute Madsens Track Nature Walk, where glow worms can be seen at night. This area is one of the wettest places in the state, with an annual rainfall over 2000mm. The gully is a dense rainforest of myrtle beech, blackwood, and tree ferns with an understory of low ferns and mosses. The 'Big Tree' is over 300 years old.
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  • A brown mushroom (fungi) with white edges grows in Sawtooth National Recreation Area, Idaho, USA.
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  • Woolly Chanterelle mushrooms (Gomphus Floccosus, a fungi in the Cantharellaceae family) grow with a trumpet shape. Location: Pete Lake Trail along the Cooper River near Salmon La Sac Campground in Wenatchee National Forest, Washington, USA.
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  • Orange fungi grows on Chamonix-Zermatt Haute Route at Arolla in Valais (Wallis) canton, Switzerland, the Alps, Europe.
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  • These two different kinds of orange mushroom/fungus grow on a tree trunk along the Skyline Divide trail, in Mount Baker Wilderness, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington, USA.
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  • White fungi radiates from a tree trunk in Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve, near Quito, Ecuador, South America.
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  • Mushrooms grow on the lush Cataract Creek Trail, in Mount Tamalpais Watershed, Marin County Municipal Water District, California, USA.
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  • Woolly Chanterelle mushrooms (Gomphus Floccosus, a fungi in the Cantharellaceae family) grow with a trumpet shape. Location: Pete Lake Trail along the Cooper River near Salmon La Sac Campground in Wenatchee National Forest, Washington, USA.
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  • Mushrooms form brown concentric rings in the Cascades. Hike the Beckler Peak Trail, 7.4 miles round trip with 2200 feet gain, in Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington, USA.
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  • white oyster mushrooms, Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area, Wenatchee National Forest, Washington, USA
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  • A mushroom with concentric brown ring cap grows in Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area (Mount Baker Snoqualmie National Forest), near Interstate 90, Washington, USA.
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  • Brown orange mushrooms grow in Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area (Mount Baker Snoqualmie National Forest), Washington, USA.
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  • A Boletus mushroom grows on the Ira Spring Memorial Trail in Western Washington, USA.
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  • A mushroom with split purple cap grows in Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area (Mount Baker Snoqualmie National Forest), near Interstate 90, Washington, USA.
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  • Mushrooms grow like condominiums on a bed of moss in Wenatchee National Forest, Washington, USA
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  • Chanterelle Mushrooms  grow shaped liked trumpets in Wenatchee National Forest, Washington, USA.
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  • Chanterelle Mushrooms  grow shaped liked trumpets in Wenatchee National Forest, Washington, USA.
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  • Orange mushroom. Marmot Lake Trail. Backpack for 4 days to Tuck, Robin, Marmot, and Jade Lakes and Dip Top Gap in Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area, Washington, USA. From Tucquala Meadows Trailhead (north of Salmon La Sac), we took the Deception Pass Trail northwards past Hyas Lake.
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  • Mushrooms grow above moss. Kananaskis Country is a park system in the Canadian Rockies west of Calgary, in Alberta, Canada.
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  • Amanita muscaria poisonous mushrooms. Garibaldi Provincial Park, in the Coast Range, British Columbia, Canada. Garibaldi Park is east of the Sea to Sky Highway (Route 99) between Squamish and Whistler.
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  • A bright orange and yellow mushroom emerges at Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA. The gardens are a memorial to Sarah P. Duke, wife of Benjamin N. Duke, one of Duke University's benefactors. Address: Sarah P. Duke Gardens, 426 Anderson Street, Box 90341, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0341.
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  • Mushrooms. Hike to Owyhigh Lakes (elevation 5259 ft; 7 miles round trip with 1350 feet gain) near White River Campground in Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA. Getting there: From Enumclaw, drive east 43 miles on State Route 410 to the Mount Rainier National Park White River Entrance. Veer right onto the Sunrise Road and follow it 3.6 miles to the trailhead parking area about 1 mile after crossing Shaw Creek.
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  • White mushroom in snow. Kananaskis Country is a park system in the Canadian Rockies west of Calgary, in Alberta, Canada.
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  • This orange mushroom/fungus grows along the Skyline Divide trail, in Mount Baker Wilderness, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington, USA.
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  • This brownish-white mushroom/fungus grows along the Skyline Divide trail, in Mount Baker Wilderness, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington, USA.
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  • Coral Hydnum mushroom (Hericium coralloides). This fungus grows along the Skyline Divide trail, in Mount Baker Wilderness, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington, USA.
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  • White fungus colonizes a sawn log along the Skyline Divide trail, in Mount Baker Wilderness, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington, USA.
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  • Small yellow mushrooms. Skyline Divide trail, in Mount Baker Wilderness, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington, USA.
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  • Colorful orange and yellow lichen on the High Peaks, Pinnacles National Park, California, USA
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  • Yellow mushroom pattern. John Muir Wilderness, Inyo National Forest, California, USA. From Pine Creek Pass Trailhead, we backpacked to Honeymoon Lake and Granite Park. Day 1: backpack 6.2 miles with 2900 feet gain to Honeymoon Lake. Day 2: backpack 3.1 miles with 1300 ft gain to Granite Park. Day 3: backpack 2.7 miles with 1300 ft descent to Honeymoon Lake to set up tents; then day hike 4.4 miles round trip with 900 ft gain to Pine Creek Pass. Day 4: backpack 6.2 miles with 2900 ft descent to the trailhead.
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  • The violet pouch fungus (Cortinarius porphyroideus) is a truffle-like fungus found in the leaf litter of beech forests. Its spore-producing tissue is enclosed within its purple cap. Spores are released when the cap begins to disintegrate, or when insects and other small animals eat the tissue within the cap. Commonly known as purple pouch fungus, it is a secotioid species of fungus found in Australia and in beech forests of New Zealand. Photographed on the Young River Track on the Gillespie Pass Circuit in Mount Aspiring National Park, Southern Alps, Otago region, South Island of New Zealand.
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  • Small mushrooms grow from a bed of moss. Skyline Divide trail, in Mount Baker Wilderness, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington, USA.
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  • Orange fruiting bodies on lichen. Murrelet State Wilderness, California, USA.
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  • A yellow mushroom grows on Cataract Creek Trail, Mount Tamalpais Watershed, Marin County Municipal Water District, California, USA.
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  • White fungus, green algae, and moss grow on a tree in Mammoth Cave National Park, in Edmonson County, Kentucky, USA.
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  • Lichen polygons. Boom Lake Trail, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
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  • Lichen polygons. Boom Lake Trail, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
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  • Bunchberry flowers (or Dwarf Dogwood; Cornus canadensis) grow near lichen polygons on a rock. Boom Lake Trail, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
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  • Lichen polygons. Boom Lake Trail, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
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  • Competing lichen colonies form an intricate polygon pattern on a rock along Lower Sunwapta Falls Trail in Jasper National Park, Canadian Rockies, Alberta, Canada. Jasper is the largest national park in the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site declared by UNESCO in 1984.
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  • A boy in yellow shirt runs through a panorama of hoodoos in Goblin Valley State Park, in central Utah, USA. Admire fanciful hoodoos, mushroom shapes, and rock pinnacles in fascinating Goblin Valley State Park, in Emery County between the towns of Green River and Hanksville. The Goblin rocks eroded from Entrada Sandstone, which is comprised of alternating layers of sandstone (cross-bedded by former tides), siltstone, and shale debris which were eroded from former highlands and redeposited in beds on a former tidal flat. As part of the Colorado Plateau, the San Rafael Swell is a giant dome-shaped anticline of rock (160-175 million years old) that was pushed up during the Paleocene Laramide Orogeny 60-40 million years ago. Since then, infrequent but powerful flash floods have eroded the sedimentary rocks into valleys, canyons, gorges, mesas, and buttes. This panorama was stitched from 3 overlapping photos.
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  • Cyttaria is a Genus of fungus causing galls on Nothofagus trees in southern Chile. The foot of South America is known as Patagonia, a name derived from coastal giants, Patagão or Patagoni, who were reported by Magellan's 1520s voyage circumnavigating the world and were actually Tehuelche native people who averaged 25 cm (or 10 inches) taller than the Spaniards.
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  • Lichen on rock inscribes orange, yellow, black and white patterns in Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada. This is part of the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site declared by UNESCO in 1984.
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  • Chiricahua National Monument, Arizona: The Heart of the Rocks Loop Trail (7 to 9 miles) makes a perfect day hike through the hoodoos here. 27 million years ago, huge volcanic eruptions laid down 2000 feet of ash and pumice in this area, which fused into a rock known as rhyolitic tuff.  Since then this rock has eroded into fascinating hoodoos, spires, and balanced rocks which lie above the surrounding desert grasslands at elevations between 5100 and 7800 feet. At Chiricahua, the Sonoran desert meets the Chihuahuan desert, and the Rocky Mountains meet Mexico's Sierra Madre, making one of the most biologically diverse areas in the northern hemisphere. While we drove the dirt road to nearby Portal, Arizona, Carol saw a mountain lion crossing the road! Other animals here include javelina, coatimundi, bears, skunks, and deer. Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" book by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010.
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  • A yellow mushroom grows on Cataract Creek Trail, Mount Tamalpais Watershed, Marin County Municipal Water District, California, USA.
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  • False Chanterelle Mushrooms (Clitocybe aurantiaca), Wenatchee National Forest. Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" book by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010.
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  • Lichen polygons. Green River Lakes, Wind River Range, Bridger-Teton National Forest, Rocky Mountains, Wyoming, USA. The Continental Divide follows the crest of the "Winds". Mostly composed of granite batholiths formed deep within the earth over 1 billion years ago, the Wind River Range is one of the oldest mountain ranges in North America. These granite monoliths were uplifted, exposed by erosion, then carved by glaciers 500,000 years ago to form cirques and U-shaped valleys. Glaciers scoured the terminal moraine which naturally dams the Green River Lakes, the headwaters of the Green River (chief tributary to the Colorado River).
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  • Lichen polygons. Boom Lake Trail, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
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  • Lichen polygons. Boom Lake Trail, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
    1807CAN-907.jpg
  • Admire fanciful hoodoos, mushroom shapes, and rock pinnacles in Goblin Valley State Park, in Emery County between the towns of Green River and Hanksville, in central Utah, USA. The Goblin rocks eroded from Entrada Sandstone, which is comprised of alternating layers of sandstone (cross-bedded by former tides), siltstone, and shale debris which were eroded from former highlands and redeposited in beds on a former tidal flat. As part of the Colorado Plateau, the San Rafael Swell is a giant dome-shaped anticline of rock (160-175 million years old) that was pushed up during the Paleocene Laramide Orogeny 60-40 million years ago. Since then, infrequent but powerful flash floods have eroded the sedimentary rocks into valleys, canyons, gorges, mesas, and buttes.
    1503SW-0553_Goblin-Valley.jpg
  • Cyttaria is a Genus of fungus causing galls on Nothofagus trees in southern Chile. The foot of South America is known as Patagonia, a name derived from coastal giants, Patagão or Patagoni, who were reported by Magellan's 1520s voyage circumnavigating the world and were actually Tehuelche native people who averaged 25 cm (or 10 inches) taller than the Spaniards.
    05CHI-10033_Cyttaria-fungus.jpg
  • A brown and black banana slug (genus Ariolimax) crawls a mushroom on Cataract Creek Trail, Mount Tamalpais Watershed, Marin County Municipal Water District, California, USA.
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  • Lichen polygons. Green River Lakes, Wind River Range, Bridger-Teton National Forest, Rocky Mountains, Wyoming, USA. The Continental Divide follows the crest of the "Winds". Mostly composed of granite batholiths formed deep within the earth over 1 billion years ago, the Wind River Range is one of the oldest mountain ranges in North America. These granite monoliths were uplifted, exposed by erosion, then carved by glaciers 500,000 years ago to form cirques and U-shaped valleys. Glaciers scoured the terminal moraine which naturally dams the Green River Lakes, the headwaters of the Green River (chief tributary to the Colorado River).
    1909US1-0114.jpg
  • Lichen polygons. Boom Lake Trail, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
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  • Lichen polygons. Boom Lake Trail, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
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  • The genus Amanita contains about 600 species of agarics including some of the most toxic known mushrooms found worldwide. This genus is responsible for approximately 95% of the fatalities resulting from mushroom poisoning, with the death cap accounting for about 50% on its own. The most potent toxin present in these mushrooms is ?-amanitin. Heather Meadows, Mount Baker - Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington, USA.
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  • The genus Amanita contains about 600 species of agarics including some of the most toxic known mushrooms found worldwide. This genus is responsible for approximately 95% of the fatalities resulting from mushroom poisoning, with the death cap accounting for about 50% on its own. The most potent toxin present in these mushrooms is ?-amanitin. Heather Meadows, Mount Baker - Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington, USA.
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  • Amanita mushroom seen on the Wonderland Trail to Summerland in Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA.
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  • White fungus, green algae, and moss grow on a tree in Mammoth Cave National Park, in Edmonson County, Kentucky, USA.
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  • White fungus, green algae, and moss grow on a tree in Mammoth Cave National Park, in Edmonson County, Kentucky, USA.
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  • Amanita mushroom seen on the Wonderland Trail to Summerland in Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA.
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  • Lichen polygons. Boom Lake Trail, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
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  • large mushroom with yellow spores seen on the Wonderland Trail to Summerland in Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA.
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  • Coral Hydnum mushroom (Hericium coralloides). This fungi was found on the Rachel Lake hike in Alpine Lakes Wilderness, Wenatchee National Forest, Washington, USA
    04WA9-0018_Coral-Hydnum-fungi-2.jpg
  • Coral Hydnum mushroom (Hericium coralloides). This fungi was found on the Rachel Lake hike in Alpine Lakes Wilderness, Wenatchee National Forest, Washington, USA
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  • Coral Hydnum mushroom (Hericium coralloides). This fungi was found on the Rachel Lake hike in Alpine Lakes Wilderness, Wenatchee National Forest, Washington, USA
    04WA9-0095-Coral-Hydnum-mushroom.jpg
  • Fungi and False Lily-of-the-Valley (Maianthemum, in the Lily Family) leaves grow together on the verdant Lake 22 trail, near Verlot on the Mountain Loop Highway, in Snohomish County, Washington, USA.
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  • A cluster of white fungi forms brackets on a tree. See views of the Presidential Range from the Ledge Trail in Randolph Community Forest in the Crescent Range, starting along US Highway 2, in New Hampshire, USA. The White Mountains (a range in the northern Appalachian Mountains) cover a quarter of the state of New Hampshire. Leaf peepers love the peak of autumn foliage around the first week of October.
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  • Alpine tundra plants are dwarfed by harsh climate at Wonder Lake, Denali National Park, Alaska, USA. Fungi fruits with a white mushroom.
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  • Two mushrooms resemble fried eggs with yellow yolk and white disc in Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • The Pinesap plant (Monotropa hypopithys) blooms with a cluster of 3-10 nodding pale yellow, tan, or sometime reddish flowers on a single stem. It has no chlorophyll, gets nutrients through parasitism on fungi, and can live in very dark forest. Burroughs Mountain Trail, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA.
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  • The Pinesap plant (Monotropa hypopithys) blooms with a cluster of 3-10 nodding pale yellow, tan, or sometime reddish flowers on a single stem. It has no chlorophyll, gets nutrients through parasitism on fungi, and can live in very dark forest.  Hike along beautiful Thunder Creek to Fourth of July Pass from Colonial Creek Campground, in Ross Lake National Recreation Area, in the North Cascades, Washington, USA.
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  • Monotropa uniflora (Indian pipe, ghost plant, or corpse plant) flowers bloom in Larrabee State Park, near Bellingham, Washington, USA. Unlike most plants, it is white and does not contain chlorophyll. It is parasitic on fungi that are mycorrhizal with trees, ultimately getting energy from the trees' photosynthesis. It can grow in very dark understory of dense forest.
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  • The Pinesap plant (Monotropa hypopithys) blooms with a cluster of 3-10 nodding pale yellow, tan, or sometime reddish flowers on a single stem. It has no chlorophyll, gets nutrients through parasitism on fungi, and can live in very dark forest. Hike along beautiful Thunder Creek to Fourth of July Pass from Colonial Creek Campground, in Ross Lake National Recreation Area, in the North Cascades, Washington, USA.
    1207CAS-S95_044_Pinesap_Monotropa-hy...jpg
  • Monotropa uniflora (Indian pipe, ghost plant, or corpse plant) flowers bloom in a cradle of ferns in Wallace Falls State Park, Gold Bar, Washington, USA. Unlike most plants, Indian pipe is white and does not contain chlorophyll. It is parasitic on fungi that are mycorrhizal with trees, ultimately getting energy from the trees' photosynthesis. It can grow in the very dark understory of dense forest.
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  • Two yellow mushrooms grow tall in the Alaska Zoo, Anchorage, Alaska, USA. A mushroom is the fruiting body of fungi.
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  • A poisonous Amanita muscaria mushroom grows in the Alaska Zoo, Anchorage, Alaska, USA. A mushroom is the fruiting body of fungi.
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  • Cunningham's Skink (Egernia cunninghami) is native to southeastern Australia and can reach up to 30 cm in length. They vary from dark brown to black, with or without blotchy patches, speckles or narrow bands. It is a diurnal omnivore with its diet including insects, flowers, berries, fungi, leaves and young shoots. It gives birth to six or more live young in a litter. Photo is from Taronga Zoo, Sydney, New South Wales (NSW), Australia.
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  • A curious line scores a pattern in a yellow aspen leaf lying on an orange mushroom in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska, USA.
    06AK_5011-mushroom-pattern-leaf.jpg
  • The Pinesap plant (Monotropa hypopithys) blooms with a cluster of 3-10 nodding pale yellow, tan, or sometime reddish flowers on a single stem. It has no chlorophyll, gets nutrients through parasitism on fungi, and can live in very dark forest. Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area, Washington, USA.
    05PRA_26-Pinesap.jpg
  • A curious line scores a pattern in a yellow aspen leaf lying on an orange mushroom in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska, USA.
    06AK_5010-mushroom-pattern-leaf.jpg
  • Water drops drip from an orange fungus in Blue Mountains National Park, New South Wales, Australia.
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