Nature Photos

Image 1. Sporangia of Lycogala epidendrum
From northern California. Photo by Victor Duran

Image 2. Sporangia of Lycogala epidendrum
From northern California. Photo by Victor Duran

Image 3. Sporangia of Lycogala epidendrum
From Salt Point State Park, Sonoma County, California

Image 4. Sporangia of Lycogala epidendrum
From Salt Point State Park, Sonoma County, California

Image 5. Sporangia of Lycogala epidendrum
From Strawberry Canyon, above the University of California, Berkeley

Image 6. Sporangia of Lycogala epidendrum
From the Sierra Nevada foothills, California

Image 7. Metatricha floriformis
These sporangia are breaking open. From Marin County, California

Image 8. Metatrichia vesparium, from southern Ontario

Image 9. Possibly Physarum flavicomum, from near Prince George, British Columbia

Image 10. Physarum polycephalum sporangia on agar, a laboratory growth medium
Photo by Victor Duran

Image 11. Prototrichia metallica, from the subalpine Sierra Nevada, California
Photo by Victor Duran

Image 12. Sphaerobolus sp.from Tilden Park, near Berkeley, California
Photo by Victor Duran

Image 13. Steminotopsys typhina
From Tilden Park, near Berkeley, California Photo by Victor Duran

Image 14. Steminotopsys typhina
From coastal Mendocino County, northwestern California.

Image 15. Steminotopsys typhina
The same photo subject as in the previous picture, but dried out, apparantly without fully developing and releasing spores. This was probably due to the sporangia's havng been collected and moved indoors.

Image 16. Stemonitis axifera
From Mendocino County, northwestern California

Image 17. Stemonitis axifera
From Mendocino County, northwestern California

Image 18. Stemonitis axifera
From Mendocino County, northwestern California

Image 19. Stemonitis axifera
From Tilden Park, near Berkeley, California

Image 20. Stemonitis sp. Most of the spores have been released.
Location uncertain

Image 21. Stemonitis sp. Location uncertain

Image 22. Stemonitis sp. Location uncertain

Image 23. Trichia decipiens, from near Stewarts Point, Sonoma County, California

Image 24. Trichia decipiens, from near Stewarts Point, Sonoma County, California
Note: this also resembles immature Hemitrichia calyculata

Image 25. Possibly Trichia decipiens
From near Badger Pass, Yosemite National Park, California

Image 26. Immature sporangia, possibly a species of Trichia
From Marin County, California

Image 27. Trichia sp., from Humboldt County, northwestern California.

Image 28. Trichia sp.
Immature sporangia, probably from northern California. Photo by Victor Duran