Nature Photos

Image 1. Aleuria aurantia, called orange peel, a cup fungus (Ascomycete)
From near Mendocino, California

Image 2. Aleuria aurantia, called orange peel, a cup fungus (Ascomycete)
From near Mendocino, California

Image 3. Amanita muscaria, the fly agaric, or fly amanita
From Jackson State Forest, Mendocino County, California

Image 4. Amanita muscaria, the fly agaric, or fly amanita
From Jackson State Forest, Mendocino County, California

Image 5. Probably in the genus Amanita. Some of the white Amanitas are extremely poisonous.

Image 6. Annulohypoxylon thouarsianum, called cramp balls (!)
from Strawberry Canyon, above the University of California, Berkeley, CA

Image 7. Calostoma cinnebarinum, or stuffed puffball-in-aspic
From Shenandoah National Park, Virginia

Image 8. Chlorociboria aeruginascens, the blue stain mushroom
From Yosemite National Park, California

Image 9. Clathrus columnatus, the octopus stinkhorn
From Wakulla Springs State Park, Florida

Image 10. Probably Clavaria vermicularis, or fairy fingers
From Sonoma County, California

Image 11. Probably Clavaria vermicularis, or fairy fingers
From Sonoma County, California

Image 12. Probably Clavaria vermicularis, or fairy fingers
From Sonoma County, California

Image 13. Cortinarius sp., a "cort" or webcap mushroom
From Marin County, California. Photo by Victor Duran

Image 14. Probably Exidia glandulosa, or black witch's butter
From western Oregon

Image 15. Probably Flammulina velutipes, although (except for the lack
of darker flecks on the cap) it might be Armillariella mellea, the honey mushroom.
From the Klamath Range, northwestern California.
Thanks to Geoff Dann for the suggested identification

Image 16. Ganoderma applanatum, called the artist's fungus, or artist's conk
From Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands), British Columbia

Image 17. Ganoderma applanatum, called the artist's fungus, or artist's conk
From Strawberry Canyon, University of California, Berkeley

Image 18. A Geastrum, or earthstar

Image 19. Hydnellum diabolus, one of the tooth fungi
From the Pygmy Forest, Mendocino County, California

Image 20. Hygrocybe punicea, the scarlet waxy cap
From Strawberry Canyon, above the University of California, Berkeley

Image 21. Probably also Hygrocybe punicea, the scarlet waxy cap
From Strawberry Canyon, above the University of California, Berkeley

Image 22. Laetiporus sulphureus, called sulfur shelf, or chicken of the woods
From Mt. Tamalpais, Marin County, California

Image 23. Lichenomphalia umbellifera, a partially lichenized fungus
From Great Wass Island, Maine