Emergency rainbow post

As regular readers know and are sick to death of hearing, I've got a backlog of things to post, but yesterday’s hike overwhelmed me with sheer volume and colors, so here’s a quickie post just to show you the crazy diversity of fungi when conditions are optimal.

I won't sully these with little facts and stories; just look!

At the end there’s a few marvelous non-fungal forest inhabitants.

I found all this (and a ton of other things that didn't make the blog cut) in about three hours.

Click any image to view large!

Dacryopinax spathularia	Unidentified so far
Hygrocybe sp.	Hygrocybe sp.
Mycena leaiana	Cantharellus cinnabarinus
Hygrocybe conica	Mutinus elegans (likely)
Hygrocybe conica	Hygrocybe conica
Russula sp.	Hygrocybe punicea
Immature Leucoagaricus rubrotinctus	Laccaria ochropurpurea
Laccaria ochropurpurea	Lactarius indigo
Coprinus domesticus	Tremella fuciformis
Lepiota procera	I forget

I took 241 pictures in about three hours.

Spring peeper

Luna moth

Jack in the pulpit fruits