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Fabulous Fungi

Up close and personal photography by Amanda

A striking, vibrant red and orange Amanita genus mushroom, damaged from heavy rain.
A cluster of jack-o'-lantern mushrooms, featuring bright orange caps, gorwing on moss.
A ruby bolete emerging from vibrant green moss, with pinkish-red coloring.
A young fly agaric mushroom with cherry red coloring and speckled with white warts, growing from leaf litter.
A scarlet waxcap mushroom with vibrant crimson-red color and a smooth, glossy cap with a center depression, on a bed of leaves
A pale pink capped Russula mushroom with a scalloped margin, growing from forest debris.
A cluster of vibrant, wine-red to pinkish colored, gilled Russula, with convex, depressed caps, growing in a bed of clover.
Either Rubroboletus pulcherrimus (Red-pored Bolete) or eastwoodiae (Satan's Bolete), a large, squat pinkish-red mushroom with a thick, bulbous stem.
A Chicken of the Woods bracket fungi; bright orange, fan-shaped, with velvety, overlapping caps growing outward in tiered rosettes.
An orange spindle coral; a bright cluster of finger-like fruit bodies emerging from soil and leaf litter.
A bolete-type fungus that looks like it's made of crushed orange velvet, growing from forest litter, next to a small log.
A small, gilled mushroom with a smooth, bright yellow-orange convex cap and a pale yellow stem, growing from a bed of leaf litter.
Scrambled-egg slime mold, on a log after a rain; a lovely, bright yellow protozoan, often mistaken for a fungus
Two slender Caesar mushroom buttons. Smooth, vibrant yellow-orange, egg-shaped caps with bases nestled inside a volva.
A bright yellow waxcap mushroom, with gills, a convex cap, and a slender, cream colored stipe growing from forest debris.
A wet, neon yellow bolete among dark leaf litter. It has a yellow-orange stipe covered with prominent reticulate texture.
A large morel mushroom growing from forest debris, with a tan, honeycomb patterned cap and a thick white stem.
A tight cluster of honey mushrooms with slightly darker centers on their caps. Growing as a fused group on leaf litter.
A large cauliflower mushroom growing in a dense, rounded cluster against a tree. It is a pale cream-colored, wavy, and has flattened leaflike branches resembling coral.
A large cauliflower mushroom growing in a dense, rounded cluster on the forest floor. It is a pale cream-colored, wavy, and has flattened leaflike branches resembling coral.
A large cauliflower mushroom growing in a dense, rounded cluster against a tree. It is a pale cream-colored, wavy, and has flattened leaflike branches resembling coral.
A bright white oyster mushroom cluster with delicate, overlapping fan-shaped caps, growing from hardwood.
A cream colored white coral jelly fungus growing on leaf litter. It is gelatinous, lobed, and pitted.
Cream, orange, brown, and white false turkey-tail fungi brackets and pale green lichen, both attached to a fallen log.
A cluster of bell-shaped, smooth capped gray mushrooms growing from cow dung. They have slender, rigid, tan colored stipes.
The top of an indigo milk cap mushroom, featuring pale blue coloring with zones of cerulean. Bits of leaf litter are on the cap.
A cluster of velvety blue turkey tail mushroom. Displays ruffled, fan-shaped caps arranged in a rosette cluster with bands of blue, gray, and white.
Vase earthfan fungus with wavy lobes of pale, whitish to golden margins, with gray center tones. Growing in a tight, overlapping rosette.
A violet coral fungus, with vibrant purple, tubular branches. It grows from forest debris.
Algae stained turkey tail polypore cluster with concentric zones of brown, tan and cream, overlaid with vibrant green patches.
Dark, scaly cap of an Old Man of the Woods mushroom, with dark, pointed, wooly blackish scales, growing from leaf litter.