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Red-capped Russula and Red belted conk.
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#Naturephotography
Canada, British Columbia, Lower Mainland, Bert Flinn Park.
Close up of a Russula mushroom in a bed of light/ lime green moss. The cap is a vibrant pinkish-red and shiny after the rains. The stem is thick and smooth and in a stark white colour. 4 Red belted conks stacked vertically and closely together on a tree trunk covered in green lichen. This shelf mushroom has 4 distinctively coloured bands on its half circle top face. The two outer rims on the margin are a rich creamy coloured outer rim, with a vibrant orange stripe adjacent. Then closer to the base follows a rusty red ring and then a thick band of very dark burgundy brown. Recent rain gives a sparkle to the colours.
November 27, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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#Canada #Alberta #Lakelouise #Canadasky #Mountain #Lakes #Nature #photography #winterlandscape
Winter landscape from Lake Louise in Banff National Park, Canada. At the top and in the background is a dark- brown, ragged mountain covered here and there in swaths of snow. In the middle are the mineral rich,emerald green waters of Lake Louise. The lake shows a reflective imprint of the towering mountain above. In the foreground is the crisp-white covered lakeshore. Snow blankets logs and rocks with a few winter -bare branches from trees and brush sticking through and out of the sparkling snow.
November 21, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Also on the other side of the lichen trail this view. Winter wonderland view of Canadian Rocky Mountain landscape reflected in the dusty turquoise waters of Lake Louise in Alberta, Canada.
November 18, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Close up of 3 lichen varieties all likely types of Rhizocarpon l8chen.At the top a light gray grouping. In the middle a lime green cluster that looks like bright green island nodes in a sea of black. At the bottom dark brown and black formations that look like coarse sand kernels. Close up of possibly map lichen- Rhizocarpon geminatum. It looks like very closely packed gray and charcoal coloured pebbles.
November 18, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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#Fungifriends #Lichen
A map of map lichen. Various Rhizocarpon lichen on a rock in Canada #Alberta #LakeLouise
Close ups in comments.
A rock covered completely in splotches of lichen in brighter and darker green. Also darker and lighter groups of gray. The rock is framed crisp white fresh snow.
November 18, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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#Fungifriends #lichen
Close-up views of possibly Caloplaca saxicola, commonly known as rock firedot lichen.
#Alberta Canada on rocks next to the Bow river, #Banff National Park.
A big blob of bright orange lichen found on a roughly textured brown rockface. The lichen's orange flame colour links it well with its common name, the firedot lichen. Hundreds of small, cup- shaped formations in bright orange. This is a close-up version of the firedot lichen described in previous photo.
November 16, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Speaking of boots and inequality. Author Terry Pratchett via one of his famous characters says it well.
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. ... A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. ... But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socio-economic unfairness.
November 10, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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For scale. Three human fingers hold on to the small brown an waterlogged cone of a Douglas fir tree. The tiny white capped Douglas fir cone mushroom with a bright yellow stem emerges from the cone.
November 7, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Tiny whites capped and yellow stemmed Douglas Fir cone mushroom. View is at an angle to see tightly packed white gills. Mushroom emerges from a watter logged decaying cone. The background is bright green moss.
November 7, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Tiny Thursday. Douglas fir cone mushroom. Strobilurus trullisatus.
Look at the sharp white cap and bright yellow stipe. Cap approximately 0.5cm.
Western Canada, British Columbia. Lower mainland.
More pics in comments.
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#Tinymushrooms
Tiny white capped, yellow stemmed mushroom growing out of a cone from a Douglas fir tree. The cone is decaying and soggy. Background is a bright, lime green moss blanket covering a log.
November 7, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Same Russula mushroom. See the fluorescence effect under an ultraviolet light.
Western Canada, lower mainland.
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#Russula
Creamy peach coloured russula mushroom that emerged from a log. The centre of the cap is a darker peach brown colour becoming lighter at the margin. The stipe is thickset and white. The same russula mushroom emerging from a stump as previous image. In this one an ultraviolet light beam resulted in a bright green fluorescent transformation of the cap. It looks like a green light bulb has been switched on.
October 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Fluted Black Elfin saddle.
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Found in Western Canada, BC lower mainland.
Black elfin saddle mushroom in the centre of bright green moss bed. The cap is a solid,dark black in colour and looks a bit shriveled or like a malformed blackberry. The stipe is grey with dark grey vertical stripes.
October 26, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Hidden in the forest floor under brambles.
October 23, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Amanita pantherinoides? Western Canada, British Columbia - Lower Mainland , Greater Vancouver
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Young Amanita mushroom with a brown caramel coloured cap. The cap, shaped in a ball has cream coloured warts dotted all over it. At the base of the cream white stipe, the egg-shaped volva also in cream white can be seen. The backdrop is the forest floor in autumn with bright fern stems and browned leaf debris.
October 23, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Puffball mushroom. Cream grey in colour with a thick stocky base/stem that is cream coloured and smooth. The ball-shaped top is textured in fuzzy protrusions that give it an almost velvety look.
October 16, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Amanita Muscaria fest. #fungi #Amanita #FungiFriends #PacificNorthwest 🇨🇦
Orange metallic-sheen Amanita mushroom in grass with yellowed and rust-red leaves on either side. The cap is mature and flattened out with orange white wart-like remnants from the leftover veil. Amanita muscaria. The young round ball-shaped cap has recently emerged from the egg-shaped volva visible at the base. The cap is an elegant shiny cream champagne colour with creamy wart spot remnants from the veil. Younger Amanita Muscaria. View of the round ball-shaped cap from the top. The colour is an elegant creamy shiny champagne colour with cream colored warts dotting the cap. In the background is grass and smaller green plant leaves. Young Amanita Muscaria. The ball-shaped cap is a bright, shiny, reddish-orange with white warts dotted all over the cap. The base of the stem shows the cream colored egg-like volva. The background is decayed leaf debris, a few bright green grass shoots.
October 16, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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#Westcoast
Pacific Northwest forest trail scene. A dark grey slug is busy eating a white oyster mushroom from the top middle of the cap. The mushroom is part of a 7-cluster of oyster mushrooms, set against a bright green moss-covered tree stump.
October 8, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Echeveria succulent - early buds. #bloomscrolling
Delicate cluster of seven small peach colored and early flower buds of the common succulent Echeveria.
May 9, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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May 9, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Examples of people using alternative spelling. Original spelling, comments were denied.
February 26, 2025 at 4:08 AM