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Chelton's Mushroom Photography
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A page of my mushroom photography from Oregon.
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In my last photo of a parrot mushroom, a small one lurked behind it. Here's that small one up close 🦜🍄

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/2.8, 1/6, ISO 400
Stack of 17 images
10/23/25
Mt. Hood, Oregon

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A small mushroom that looks almost like green and yellow candy grows out of reddish-orange cedar and fir duff. Its stipe is slightly bent, growing out of the ground to the left and bending right towards the center of the photo. Its color starts yellow at the ground and turns green at the cap. The cap is a mixture of light green near the edges and dark green at the top. The mushroom appears wet and reflects the light above it.
December 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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A perfect family of Amanita muscaria grows along the Oregon coast in an environment of pine, grass, and sandy soil

📷 Canon 5D Mk III
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/2.8, 1/40, ISO 640
Stack of 74 images
10/23/21
Northern Oregon Coast

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Three large mushrooms grow in close proximity. One is slightly in front while the other two huddle together behind. Of the two that stick together, the right one is smaller and the left one is very large. They have thick white roughly-textured stipes with rings around them near the cap, like little white skirts. Their caps are large and round. The color on the caps is a gradient of orange and red. The caps are also dotted with small randomly shaped white warts.
December 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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A tiny parrot mushroom lurks behind the main subject of this stack - a tall and multicolored Gliophorus psittacinus

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/2.8, 1/6, ISO 400
Stack of 34 images
10/23/25
Mt. Hood, Oregon

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A mushroom with a handful of brilliant colors is centered in this photo. Its stipe fades from bottom to top with light orange, yellow, and green. Its cap is three quarters yellow and its top is dark green. A smaller and blurry (due to being farther away) but similarly colored mushroom is seen on the main mushrooms left.
December 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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I think this might be the prettiest parrot mushroom I've found in Oregon 🤩🦜🍄

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/2.8, 1/8, ISO 400
Stack of 31 images
10/23/25
Mt. Hood, Oregon

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A colorful mushroom rises from the earth among moss, lichen, and a combination of fir and cedar duff. Its stipe has a gorgeous gradient that starts as orange at the base, fades to yellow near the middle, and then fades to green underneath the cap. The cap starts as a light green around the edges and quickly turns to a dark emerald green towards the top. Its shiny cap reflects the light between the trees in the canopy above it.
December 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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I find it fascinating how different slime molds look at different stages. This is the White-footed Slime in an earlier pinkish stage!

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/4, 1/2, ISO 400
Stack of 40 images
8/29/25
Northern Oregon Coast

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Growing on an Alder wood chip, a slime mold grows with a white, mucousy-looking base where the beginning of their white stalks (or feet) are beginning to appear. They're topped with little pink ovals. Each one measures approximately half of a millimeter tall.
December 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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I love this trio of parrot mushrooms! Featuring the last one I shared on the right side. I love how green the tiny one is!

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/2.8, 1/13, ISO 400
Stack of 36 images
10/23/25
Mt. Hood, Oregon

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Three shiny yellow and green mushrooms grow together in a row. The two tallest ones sit on the sides while a tiny one sits in the middle. They grow around a dark brown stick that has moss growing on and around it.
December 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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We'll take a quick break from posting parrot mushrooms to enjoy these scaly Pholiota among dark green moss

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/3.2, 1/20, ISO 400
Stack of 23 images
10/23/25
Mt. Hood, Oregon

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Two mushrooms with very roughly textured stipes and caps grow out of dark green moss. Both the stipes and caps have these almost spiky looking darker-orange protrusions sticking out of them.
December 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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A light green parrot mushroom bends its way out of mossy soil next to a river in a thick old-growth forest

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/2.8, 1/10, ISO 400
Stack of 26 images
10/23/25
Mt. Hood, Oregon

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A mushroom with a slightly greenish-yellow stipe that bends with a very slight curve and a shiny, glassy looking yellow-green cap rises from dark soil and strands of moss. The cap on this mushroom is mostly yellow-green, but at the very top it turns to dark green.
November 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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139 individual photos make up this one, totally in-focus shot of a beautiful little parrot mushroom

📷 Canon R5 Mk II
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/2.8, 2", ISO 800
Stack of 139 images
11/22/25
Olympia area, Washington

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A short mushroom, standing about one inch tall, emerges from bits of decaying leaves. Its stipe is yellow, smooth and shiny. Its cap is very round, very shiny, and bright green. Reflections of the forest and sky above make vertical bright streaks on the glass-like cap.
November 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Hope you all like parrot mushrooms, because I'm going to have quite a few to share! Here's the second one we found ✌🏼🍄

📷 Canon R5 Mk II
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/2.8, 1/2, ISO 800
Stack of 68 images
11/22/25
Northern Oregon Coast

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This is a photo of a mushroom with a bendy yellow stipe and green cap. Its stipe bends from the bottom left corner of the frame to the center, where the cap appears. The stipe and cap are very shiny and reflect the mushrooms surroundings. Bits of moss and fir needles litter the ground around it.
November 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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I'm back from my parrot mushroom trip and have tons of photos. I got a couple done last night, so here's the first one we found!

📷 Canon R5 Mk II
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/4, 1/4, ISO 400
Stack of 19 images
11/22/25
Olympia area, WA

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A slender and somewhat tall mushroom grows out of dark damp soil. Its stipe and cap are the same golden yellow color. The stipe appears slightly transparent. The cap is circular, flared out, and a bit flat, but isn't very large. Reflections of light can be seen on the cap due to its viscous nature.
November 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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This cluster of Sharp-scaly (or maybe just Scaly) Pholiota caught my eye and pulled me in. A mesmerizing sight!

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/4, 1/20, ISO 400
Stack of 8 images
10/23/25
Mt. Hood, Oregon

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At the base of a dark brown green stump, over 20 spiky mushrooms grow squeezed together in a large beautiful cluster. Their flesh is a very light brown, nearly white, and their sharp, pointy scaled are an orange-ish brown.
November 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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I'm currently in Washington crawling around in the bushes for photos of parrot mushrooms - I already have quite a few just one day in!

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/4, 1/4, ISO 400
Stack of 22 images
10/23/25
Mt. Hood, Oregon.

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Here we have a very small and shiny mushroom. Its stipe is smooth and yellow. Its cap is very shiny and green. Faint striations of alternating lighter and darker green are visible around the edge of the cap.
November 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Xerocomellus diffractus - a likely ID - is known as the Cracked-cap Bolete. This one was in a perfect and colorful stage.

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/4, 1/15, ISO 400
Stack of 29 images
10/23/25
Mt. Hood, Oregon

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Growing with vibrant dark green moss, a medium-sized mushroom is centered. Its stipe is bright yellow and leads to a large, wide, and slightly domed cap. This mushroom is a bolete, which has pores instead of gills underneath the cap - this bolete has yellow pores which are just visible around the edge of the cap. The top of the cap consists of a brown surface with a cracked texture. The margins of the cap are accented by a thin stripe of red hue.
November 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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What a cool mushroom! The Sharp-scaly Pholiota is always so fun to see. How could you not stop and admire that amazing spiky texture!

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/4, 1/20, ISO 400
Stack of 16 images
10/23/25
Northern Oregon Coast

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Two yellow and orange mushrooms emerge from a wall of dark green moss. These special mushrooms are spiky in texture. Not tiny spikes, but large spikes (for a mushroom). The right mushroom is about an inch-and-a-half tall while the left one is much larger, about three to four inches tall.
November 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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I think this little guy is Hygrocybe miniata. Hygrocybe and Gliophorus mushrooms are my favorite to fine due to their lovely colors

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/2.8, 1/4, ISO 400
Stack of 34 images
10/23/25
Mt. Hood, OR

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Among dark ground and blurry, out-of-focus bright green moss, a beautiful light orange mushrooms grows. Its stipe is smooth and its cap is slightly roughly textured. The entire mushroom is the same hue of orange. It stands about two to two-and-a-half inches tall.
November 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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I believe this is the Blue Edge Pinkgill - Entoloma serrulatum. Blue mushrooms are so cool!

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/2.8, 1/4, ISO 400
Stack of 28 images
10/23/25
Northern Oregon Coast

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A blue mushroom grows from dark ground. It's stipe is slender and smooth. Its cap is wide and shaped like a shallow (upside down) bowl and is rough in texture. Its color - a dark gray-blue is uniform around the entire mushroom. A tiny bug, a springtail, clings to the right side of the stipe just underneath the cap. It's about 3 and a half inches tall.
November 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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I believe these tiny sunset-colored mushrooms are the Vermilian Wax Cap, Hygrocybe miniata 🌅🍄

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/2.8, 1/3, ISO 400
Stack of 33 images
10/23/25
Mt. Hood, OR

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Two small mushrooms and two extremely tiny ones grow in a line. These mushrooms have the colors of a nice sunset. Their stipes start as bright yellow and fade to red as it reaches the cap. The cap color starts as orange near the margin and turns to red at the top. The larger mushrooms are about one inch tall.
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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If only these amazing yellow and green mushrooms (Gliophorus psittacinus) tasted like apple or something... 🍏🍬 Then I'd eat 'em

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/2.8, 1/6, ISO 400
Stack of 25 images
10/23/25
Northern Oregon Coast

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Growing in front of a lichen-covered stick, a slightly bent mushroom grows. Its stipe is smooth and shiny, going from yellownat the bottom to green at the cap. Its cap is a bright green which ranges from light on the left side to dark on the right. Blurred greens and oranges obscure the bottom front of the photo. This mushroom is a about three inches tall.
November 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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That iridescent metallic shine on the fruit bodies of the White-footed Slime are so cool!

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/4, 1/2, ISO 400
Stack of 8 images
8/29/25
Northern Oregon Coast

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Like tiny alien trees, strange cylinders with a smooth and metallic-like surface standing on short white stalks grow along decaying wood. They reflect a range of colors from purple, to blue, and green. The background of the photo is a combination of soft dark and light green from distant plants. These little things are about 1mm tall.
November 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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A pair of some type of Clavulinopsis. These tend to be one of the indications for me that parrot mushrooms may be close by

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/2.8, 1/13, ISO 400
Stack of 26 images
10/23/25
Mt. Hood, OR

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Two golden yellow mushrooms grow together out of multicolored ground. These aren't your typical mushrooms however, these are a type of club fungi which grow looking like tiny clubs. They're slender at the base and grow wider at the top. These also flatten at the top, almost like a cricket bat. They have a slightly lumpy texture due to small folds on their surface.
November 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Hygrocybe constans, one of the few Hygrocybe species I've been able to find reliably in Oregon, has beautiful sunset colors

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/2.8, 1/13, ISO 400
Stack of 20 images
10/23/25
Mt. Hood, OR

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Surrounded by dark brown ground and background colors, a small bright orange and red mushroom grows with a slight bend. Its stipe goes from vibrant orange to reddish-orange near the cap. The cap is a mixture of the same colors. The cap is flat on top and roughly textured.
November 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Mycena epipterygia, the Yellowleg Bonnet, is one of my favorite common and simple mushrooms. They love to grow in trees!

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/2.8, 1/10, ISO 400
Stack of 24 images
10/23/25
Northern Oregon Coast

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A beautiful yellow mushroom grows out of moss and fir needles. Its stipe is a lemony yellow. Its cap is bright yellow around the edges and dark at the top. Its cap edges are slightly serrated.
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Gliophorus psittacinus, the parrot mushroom, is a mushroom that never fails to excite me when I find it

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/2.8, 1/13, ISO 400
Stack of 28 images
10/23/25
Mt. Hood, OR

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A gorgeous green mushroom emerges from the ground. Its stipe starts off yellow at the bottom and gradually fades to a light green over the course of its 2 and a half inches of length. Its cap is a beautiful emerald green and is conical in shape. Its very shiny and reflects streaks of light from the sky.
November 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Hygrocybe singeri, the Western Witch's Hat, is so pretty! I love finding these gorgeous mushrooms

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/4, 1/13, ISO 400
Stack of 17 images
11/29/23
Olympia area, Washington

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A tall and slender mushroom with a yellow stipe and a cap that fades from a yellow-orange at its margin to a bright red at the top grows from dark fir neddle-covered ground. Tendrils of moss reach out around the base of the mushroom. Its cap is very conical and resembles the iconic witch's hat.
November 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM