Fungal Photography

Mushrooms I’ve (attempted) to identify along my travels. Here, I identify organisms using both scientific and common names. To learn more about the colonial history of taxonomy and the erasure of Indigenous knowledge via naming systems, please read “Restoring Indigenous names in taxonomy” by Len Norman Gillman and Shane Donald Wright, Communications Biology (2020) and visit the resources page.

Troop mushrooms

green wood cap

violet-toothed polypore

orange mycena

Xeromphalina kauffmanii

(cross-veined troop mushroom)

Chlorociboria aeruginascens

(green elf cap)

Trichaptum biforme

(violet-toothed polypore)

Mycena leaiana

(orange mycena)

oyster

violet bolete

wax cap

shaggy mane

Pleurotus ostreatus

(hiratake/oyster mushroom)

Tylopilus plumbeoviolaceus

(violet gray bolete)

Hygrophoraceae

(orange waxcap)

Hericium erinaceus

(lion’s mane/old man’s beard)

chocolate slime mold

apricot jelly

amanita

varnish shelf

Stemonitis splendens

(chocolate slime mold)

Guepinia spp.

(apricot jelly)

Amanita frostiana

Ganoderma spp.

(varnish shelf mushroom)

coral

eyelash cups

golden spindles

orange jelly

Ramaria spp.

(coral fungi)

Scutellinia scutellata

(eyelash cup)

Clavulinopsis fusiformis

(golden spindles)

Dacrymycetaceae

(orange jelly)

puffball

purple jelly

coral

bolete

Calvatia gigantea

(giant puffball)

Ascocoryne sarcoides

(purple jellydisc)

Ramaria spp.

(coral fungi)

Boletales

(bolete)

honey mushroom

bleeding fairy helmet

crimped gill

turkey tial

Armillaria

(honey mushroom)

Mycena haematopus

(bleeding fairy helmet)

Plicatura crispa

(crimped gill)

Trametes versicolor

(turkey tail)

white jelly

waxcaps

Tremella fuciformis

(snow fungus)

Hygrophoraceae

(orange waxcap)