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Heidi4649

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I live in Alaska and love hiking, reading, knitting, genealogy, and taking lots of pictures of everything I see out on my walks and hikes. I’m lucky to be the guardian of the best dog out there. 私は少し日本語を話します & dw i’n dysgu Cymraeg hefyd.

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Heidi4649 @heidi4649.bsky.social · 17d

I found these today in Anchorage and haven’t seen them before. They’re not in my new Alaska mushroom guide, but some online digging makes me think they’re violet fairy cups or purple jellydisc. Maybe Ascocoryne cylichnium?

#fungifriends #mushrooms #fairycups #cupfungi #violet #purple #alaskasky

Heidi4649 @heidi4649.bsky.social · 17d

Slime mold party! This was about a square inch of a log with a lot going on.

#slimemold #fungifriends #amoebas #alaskasky

Heidi4649 @heidi4649.bsky.social · 18d

Blue-green wood cup (Chlorociboria sp, probably C. aeruginascens) on a fallen log on an Anchorage trail

#fungifriends #mushrooms #woodcups #elfcups #turquoise #alaskasky

Heidi4649 @heidi4649.bsky.social · 22d

Tiny pinpoints of slime mold on a fallen log in Anchorage

#slimemold #fungifriends #alaskasky

Heidi4649 @heidi4649.bsky.social · 22d

Slime mold on a fallen log in Anchorage
#slimemold #fungifriends #alaskasky

Heidi4649 @heidi4649.bsky.social · 22d

I’m not sure what this little slime mold is. The only thing in my guidebook that resembles it is Arcyria incarnata, carnival candy slime mold. It was on the underside of a log in the Anchorage woods.
#slimemold #fungifriends #alaskasky

Heidi4649 @heidi4649.bsky.social · 22d

Here are a couple closer pictures, with one that I cut open. There were several other species on the log, I’ll post photos this evening.

Heidi4649 @heidi4649.bsky.social · 22d

I can check! I’ll be able to find the log again.

Heidi4649 @heidi4649.bsky.social · 22d

I didn’t cut them open

Heidi4649 @heidi4649.bsky.social · 23d

Mature wolf’s milk slime mold (Lycogala epidendrum) on a fallen log in Anchorage

#slimemold #ameoba #plasmodium #fungifriends
#alaskasky

Heidi4649 @heidi4649.bsky.social · 23d

Conifer orange jelly (Dacrymyces chrysospermus) on a fallen spruce in the Anchorage woods

#fungifriends #fungus #jelly #orange #mushrooms #alaskasky

Heidi4649 @heidi4649.bsky.social · 26d

Tiny little slime mold? Maybe Trichia decipiens or another Trichia sp? Spotted on a log in the woods in Anchorage.

#slimemold #fungifriends #mushrooms #amoeba #alaskasky

Heidi4649 @heidi4649.bsky.social · 26d

Yellow fairy cups (Calycina citrina) on a fallen log in the Anchorage woods

#fungifriends #mushrooms #fairycups #lemonyellow #alaskasky

Heidi4649 @heidi4649.bsky.social · 29d

I’m not sure what kind of cup fungi these are that I came across on a neighborhood dog walk, but they’re really cool.
#fungifriends #cupfungi #mushrooms #alaskasky

Heidi4649 @heidi4649.bsky.social · Sep 9

A single blob of wolf’s milk slime mold (Lycogala epidendrum) on tree roots. I just learned that it’s not a fungus but a type of amoeba! I can hear Mr. Spock now: “Fascinating”.

#fungifriends #amoeba #slimemold #alaskasky #happystartrekday

Heidi4649 @heidi4649.bsky.social · Sep 9

Pholiota sp on a birch tree in Anchorage

#mushrooms #fungifriends #birch #alaskasky

Heidi4649 @heidi4649.bsky.social · Sep 8

Yellow jelly-drops (Heterotextus luteus) in the temperate rainforest, Girdwood Alaska.

#fungifriends #mushrooms #jellyfungus #rainforest #alaskasky

Heidi4649 @heidi4649.bsky.social · Sep 1

A little wood frog (Lithobates sylvaticus) that I saw on a dog walk this morning. One of two frog species that live in Alaska, it’s the only one that lives above the Arctic Circle. They freeze during the winter and thaw in spring.
#frogs #amphibians #nature #dogwalks #tinyurbanwildlife #alaskasky

Heidi4649 @heidi4649.bsky.social · Sep 1

Lichen (Cladonia sp) along a trail in Hatcher Pass

#lichen #fungifriends #hiking #hatcherpass #alaskasky

Heidi4649 @heidi4649.bsky.social · Aug 31

This pup lives for hiking! Along the Little Susitna River on the Gold Mint trail in Hatcher Pass.

#hiking #hatcherpass #alaskasky #rescuedog #chihuahuamix

Heidi4649 @heidi4649.bsky.social · Aug 31

Triangular-leaved fleabane (Senecio triangularis) along a trail in Hatcher Pass

#wildflowers #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #hiking #hatcherpass #alaskasky

Heidi4649 @heidi4649.bsky.social · Aug 31

Watermelon berries (Streptopus amplexifolius) in Hatcher Pass

#berries #hiking #hatcherpass #alaskasky

Heidi4649 @heidi4649.bsky.social · Aug 31

Blueberry picking in Hatcher Pass
#blueberries #berrypicking #hiking #hatcherpass #alaskasky

Heidi4649 @heidi4649.bsky.social · Aug 23

An assortment of lichen and club mosses on a boulder in Hatcher Pass, including Arctic fingers (Dactylina arctica)
#lichen #moss #hiking #fungifriends #hatcherpass #alaskasky

Heidi4649 @heidi4649.bsky.social · Jul 14

Scouler’s harebells (Campanula scouleri) along the Strait Slope Trail, Salt Creek Recreation Area

#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #wildflowers #washingtonsky