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Bob Danley @imagewildlife.bsky.social · 21h

This tooth fungi looks dangerous, unappetizing. In reality Comb Hericium has been described by Arora (1986) as "edible and delicious when cooked slowly". Found growing on hardwood trees across North America.

Comb Hericium pictured is on the 'old' side. Creamy yellow color indicates a mature specimen. Younger specimens are white. As a whole, it is a spiny mass attached to wood. Looking closer the short spines on the branches are a feature separating other Hericium sp. Size of specimens vary from three to fourteen inches wide and two to six inches tall (Arora 1986).

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Bob Danley @imagewildlife.bsky.social · 21h

Totally nutty reply.

Bob Danley @imagewildlife.bsky.social · 21h

Totally whacked out and extremist reply. What has religion got to do with protesting the current Administration and Republican policies?

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Bob Danley @imagewildlife.bsky.social · 21h

Good question Peggy. This mushroom taxonomically grouped with over 200 similar species. As a whole, they have not been well studied and determined to be edible or not. Literature recommends not eating any. Jenny (www.mushroom-appreciation.com/north-americ...) provides overview.

North American Cortinarius Mushrooms: Identification, Habitat, and Lookalikes

The Cortinarius family, commonly known as webcaps, is a big family of mushrooms with some very dangerous members, like the deadly webcap. Many Cortinarius mushrooms are absolutely beautiful, like the ...

www.mushroom-appreciation.com

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Bob Danley @imagewildlife.bsky.social · 21h

Oh yeahhhh...aren't we all? 😂

Bob Danley @imagewildlife.bsky.social · 2d

Composite image for mushroom finding practice. Perfect example of how perspective (right image = couple of steps to left) and mental search image can lead to discovery of four shrooms. Mushroom identity = one of the Suillus genus (didn't check the stipe to clinch ID). 😊

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Bob Danley @imagewildlife.bsky.social · 2d

Attended No Kings @ Missoula, MT (drive.google.com/file/d/1aE91...)
It felt good and empowering. Narrative from Martin Kidston of Missoula Current (missoulacurrent.com/no-kings-mis...). Nice boost for the spirit, but the challenge isn't over. Stay involved.

drive.google.com

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Bob Danley @imagewildlife.bsky.social · 3d

I found this small shelf fungi on a downed conifer trunk. Conifer Mazegill is notable for its' gills that are maze-like in form. Many shelf fungi have pores/tubes instead of gills. For sure that is interesting, but the colors aint bad either for attracting an eye.

Conifer Mazegill measures between one and five inches in width (Beug 2024). Individual iterations pictured were about an inch in size. Form is like many shelf mushroom, a disk cut in half. The contrasting black, yellow (found on top of cap) and cream (gill coloration) colors are beautiful in sum total.
Beug (2024) reports this fungi is found worldwide even in Africa. This organism turns dead wood red.

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Bob Danley @imagewildlife.bsky.social · 4d

One of the most colorful group of fall mushrooms are members of the Cortinarius genus. 204 species in Pacific Northwest (burkeherbarium.org/imagecollect...). Lilac Cort, pictured, is nestled in moss, bunchberry and bearberry.

Lilac Cort is a lilac/purplish colored mushroom. Both cap and stipe are colored similarly. Averages close to three inch diameter cap. Cap is convex. Gills are not narrowly spaced that are lilac colored toned rusty-brown. There are silky fibrils on the stipe (two and a half to four inches tall) colored by orangish-brown spores.
Reference: Mushrooms of Cascadia by Siegel and Schwarz; Backcountry Press (2024).

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Bob Danley @imagewildlife.bsky.social · 7d

Excellent 👍😊

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Bob Danley @imagewildlife.bsky.social · 7d

Excellent shot 👍

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Bob Danley @imagewildlife.bsky.social · 7d

Now encountering this mushroom regularly, though not in large numbers. Hollow-stalked Larch Jack looks like a craft creation using felt. The texture quite unlike store bought button mushrooms. Found wherever Larch are growing, mycorrhizal.

Pictured single Hollow-stalked Larch Jack mushroom growing in vicinity of Western Larch. Forest floor open though covered with a needled duff. Minutely scaled/fibril covered convex mushroom cap (one to almost five inch diameter) mostly a orangish-yellow. Pores are yellow and angled. The tube reticulation pattern extends down the darker orange-brown fibril covered stipe (one and half to about three and a half inch height) by about a third.
Reference: Mushrooms Demystified by D. Arora; Ten Speed Press (1986).

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Bob Danley @imagewildlife.bsky.social · 7d

Protest and freedom of speech are not forms of terrorism or hating on America contrary to Republican propoganda. America are you going to let them take away your voice, your healthcare, your freedoms? Show up at No Kings protest march. Make your feelings known; share your values with millions.

This is poster produced by www.NoKings.org. The Statue of Liberty is in the center with an American flag backdrop. The main title reads No Kings; secondary title reads "For the love of America". Below lady liberty is the date of October 18 (scheduled protest march). Find a march near you.

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Bob Danley @imagewildlife.bsky.social · 7d

Very well described 👍😊

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Bob Danley @imagewildlife.bsky.social · 7d

Yep, right again.

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Bob Danley @imagewildlife.bsky.social · 7d

Yep, right on.

Bob Danley @imagewildlife.bsky.social · 10d

Becky,
Coprine is the chemical. Trudell and Ammirati (Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest pages 330-31) address this toxic agent thoroughly. Thanks for informing others of the dangers.

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Bob Danley @imagewildlife.bsky.social · 10d

Right on!

Bob Danley @imagewildlife.bsky.social · 11d

Mushrooms that may be in your yard if you have stumps with intact tree roots. Found this large grouping of Alcohol Inky Cap on Cottonwood stump. Literature full of warnings; do not eat if you have drank alcohol within 48 hrs of doing so. Shroom prevents breakdown of alcohol, nasty body reactions.

Alcohol Inky Cap have a unique way of distributing spores: "the cap and gills digest themselves at maturity" (Arora 1986). This process is named deliquescing (word of the day:-). Left photo illustrates crowded individual mushrooms just before deliquescing. The bell-shaped cap is colored grayish-tan with a split and/or striated margin.
Right photo: once the cap and gills are digested the narrow white stipe is visible. Also evident are the abundant black spores.
Reference: Mushrooms Demystified by D. Arora; Ten Speed Press (1986).

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Bob Danley @imagewildlife.bsky.social · 12d

Faded Orange Sulphur taking nectar from Mexican Sunflower. Captured this image with 1st DSLR bought (2010), Canon Rebel T1i. Working outside in yard, spied #butterfly, ran into house and grabbed closest camera. Slowed down for close approach and focus...any camera can produce voila, success 👍😊

A square 1920 x 1920 image of Orange Sulphur taking nectar from Mexican Sunflower on October 8, 2025 at Lolo, MT. Captured this image with a fifteen year old DSLR. Sometimes your best equipment is out of reach. Use what's available.
Butterfly identified by all yellow coloration sprinkled with tiny black spotting on both underwings. Orangish coloration barely visible on disk of forewing. Distinct postmedian spots on both wings mostly missing. Looking close remnants are there. Trailing edge of both wings have thin pink coloration. Two pink-rimmed white spots near the center of the rear wing obvious. Bottom rounded spot much larger than small rounded spot, satellite-like atop larger spot.

Mexican Sunflower has orangish-red ray petals. Yellowish-red fused petals of disk flowers source of nectar.

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Bob Danley @imagewildlife.bsky.social · 13d

Amazing video/messaging from Sen. Schumer...great job, just don't stop with the hard hitting leadership! Don't cave to the Republicans.

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Bob Danley @imagewildlife.bsky.social · 13d

Absolutely!

Bob Danley @imagewildlife.bsky.social · 13d

Almost walked by a couple of Plums and Custard mushrooms. Growing out of a downed conifer trunk. Common, though not in large numbers, in the Pacific Northwest especially during cool weather of late fall (Arora 1986). Colors do match up with plums and custard 👍😊

Four image composite of Plums and Custard mushroom.
Upper left photo taken above and about a forty-five degree angle. Captures red fibrils atop yellow flesh of cap. Cap between two and four inches in width; this is a small specimen. Cap edge is white. Stipe, two to six inch height, is covered with reddish fibrils over yellowish stipe.
Upper right image is a sideview of mushroom. Patches of cap lacking reddish fibrils revealing yellow colored cap.
Lower right is a closeup sideview. Fibrils of both cap and stipe easily seen.
Lower left photo taken from ground looking up. From this vantage point yellow gill color obvious. Gills are also closely spaced.

Reference: Mushrooms of Cascadia by N. Siegel and C. Schwarz; Backcountry Press (2024).

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Bob Danley @imagewildlife.bsky.social · 14d

With the recent rains fungi starting to appear. Pictured is my macro rig in action focused on a Russula mushroom. We're in a drought so am going out everyday to capture whatever shows, you too?

Image consists of two of photos. Left image is my camera set up. I use a Canon R6 mark 2 with Canon 100mm RF macro lens. Camera mounted on Manfrotto BeLive tripod. Love that the legs invert instead of having to mess with the column. Preferred way of doing business especially with the need to capture sharp photos of the pores/gills and stipe.

I believe the mushroom photographed is Fragile Brittlegill or a closely related species. Note the: striated cap edge colored pinkish; convex cap overall brown with purple tone; clean white stipe that is thick of even width; "medium" size. Found at montane elevation in west central Montana.

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Bob Danley @imagewildlife.bsky.social · 15d

Many thanks for the reminder..."For peace and trust can win the day despite of all your losing" :-)

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