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Tara Severns
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Nature geek. Percussionist. Retired academic librarian. Photos are mine CC-BY-NC-SA
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Bird’s Nest Fungus (Cyathus sp.). Waikahekaheiki, Puna, Hawaiʻi.
Small, hairy, cup-shaped fungus filled with egg-like spore-containing structures.
December 3, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Black Witch Moths (Ascalapha odorata), introduced. Waikahekaheiki, Puna, Hawaiʻi.
A large moth with brown wings decorated with wavy lines and dark spots resembling eyes. Another large moth with brown wings decorated with wavy lines and dark spots resembling eyes.
December 2, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Nannengaella mellea, cosmopolitan. Waikahekaheiki, Puna, Hawaiʻi.
Small lolipop-like fruiting bodies of a slime mold forming on a mossy log. They have white stalks and bright orange globular heads.
December 1, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Dead Man’s Fingers (Xylaria polymorpha), cosmopolitan. Waikahekaheiki, Puna, Hawaiʻi.
A fungus resembling a brown matchstick with a white head grows from a moss-covered log.
November 30, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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One of the orange Trametes species. Waikahekaheiki, Puna , Hawaiʻi.
The underside of a bright-orange, ping-pong-paddle-shaped shelf mushroom, showing large, slightly irregular pores.
November 29, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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A foliose lichen, possibly Gold Specklebelly (Crocodia aurata). Waikahekaheiki, Puna, Hawai’i.
A leathery, leafy, blue green leaf-like lichen.
November 28, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Yellow Carnival Candy (Arcyria obvelata), cosmopolitan. Waikahekaheiki, Puna, Hawai’i.
A tightly packed collection of yellow, stalked, oblong fruiting bodies on a decaying log beginning to expand into a spongy mass.
November 27, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Moss Bells (Galerina sp.). Waikahekaheiki, Puna, Hawaiʻi.
A collection of overlapping mushroom caps. Tan with radial striations from a convex center containing a small nipple-like peak.
November 26, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Physarum album, cosmopolitan. Waikahekaheiki, Puna, Hawaiʻi.
A lone slime mold sporangium with nodding, frosted white globular head on a tan-colored tapering stalk.
November 25, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Pua Hilahila—Sleeping Grass (Mimosa pudica), introduced. Waikahekaheiki, Puna, Hawaiʻi.
A pink puffball flower on a thorny stem.
November 24, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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White Carnival Candy (Arcyria cinerea), cosmopolitan. Waikahekaheiki, Puna, Hawaiʻi.
Five slime mold fruiting bodies on a rotting log. Each has a gray stalk supporting a pale gray tapered cylinder that’s translucent at the tip.
November 23, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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“French” Marigold—actually native to Mexico (Tagetes patula), cultivated. Pāhoa, Hawaiʻi.
A showy red-orange flower amidst lush green compound leaves.
November 22, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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Layered Cup (Peziza varia), introduced. Waikahekaheiki, Puna, Hawaiʻi.
A tan-colored cup-like mushroom with a rubbery texture grows from mulched wood.
November 21, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Sordid Blewit (Collybia sordida), I think. Cosmopolitan. Waikahekaheiki, Puna, Hawaiʻi.
A translucent pink mushroom from below, showing undulating gills.
November 20, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Leafhopper (Gyponana germari), introduced. Waikahekaheiki, Puna, Hawaiʻi.
A green insect with a triangular head and yellow eyes sits on a yellow flower beneath a forming cucumber fruit.
November 19, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Palaʻā—Fairy Fern (Odontosoria chinensis), indigenous. Waikahekaheiki, Puna, Hawaiʻi.
A delicate, lacy, light green fern.
November 18, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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‘Iole—Black Rat (Ratus ratus), introduced. Waikahekaheiki, Puna, Hawaiʻi.
An immature rat nestles between two rocks amidst foliage.
November 17, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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This may be a Raspberry slime mold (Tubifera ferruginosa), cosmopolitan. Waikahekaheiki, Puna, Hawaʻi.
A tan-colored bumpy slime mold on a log.
November 16, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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Phallus multicolor, introduced. Waikahekaheiki, Puna, Hawaiʻi.
Three stinkhorn mushrooms, each with a conical cap showing a yellow, pitted honeycomb surface coated in dark olive-brown slime. A delicate yellow net-like veil hangs from each cap, forming a lacy skirt over a pale yellow stalk.
November 15, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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ʻUhaloa—Sleepy Morning (Waltheria indica), indigenous. Waikahekaheiki, Puna, Hawaiʻi.
A small shrub with red stems and velvety soft oblong to oval leaves with toothed edges and conspicuous veins.
November 14, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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A fungus, possibly Tetrapyrgos alba, with a beard lichen, Usnea sp., growing on ʻōhiʻa, Metrosideros polymorpha. Waikahekaheiki, Puna, Hawaiʻi.
A small, transluscent white mushroom grows alongside a jointed, light green, branched lichen on a rough-barked log.
November 13, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Amoebozoa time! Arcyria sp., cosmopolitan. Waikahekaheiki, Puna, Hawaiʻi.
A close view of slime mold fruiting bodies, with oblong soft grey caps on slender, long white stalks.
November 12, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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Hummingbird Hawk Moth (Macroglossum pyrrhosticta), introduced. Waikahekaheiki, Puna, Hawaiʻi.
A mid-sized brown, somewhat shaggy moth sits on a dusty windowsill.
November 11, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Honohono Grass—Climbing Dayflower (Commelina diffusa), introduced. Waikahekaheiki, Puna, Hawaiʻi.
Two small bilaterally-symmetrical flowers with light blue petals.
November 10, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Florida Pusley (Richardia scabra), introduced. Paʻauilo, Hāmākua, Hawaiʻi.
A low-growing plant with opposite leaves, lanceolate to elliptic in shape, and two star-shaped white flowers.
November 9, 2025 at 5:46 AM