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Trametes versicolour - Turkey Tail Mushroom [more]

Fomitopsis pinicola - Red-banded Polypore 

Mycena leptochephala - This species often begins pale brown, however it turns pale grey as the fruiting body matures and the pruinose layer is shed [see previous post].  

Mycena leptocephala 

Peltigera polydactyla - May not be a valid taxon. Has been used (species native to india) in indian folk-medicine as a ground paste that was applied to wounds to stop bleeding. It also has antiseptic properties. Species in india contain the compounds tenuionin and dolichorrizin, the chemical properties of which are still largely unknown (Saklani and Upreti 1992). North american species may not contain these ingredients.

ie: Do not try this at home. 

Moss tree. 

Polypodium. 

Glad to be back, Tumblr.

Laetiporus conifericola - Chicken Mushroom

Calocera cornea - Yellow Fingers. 

thebiologyphotoblog:

Selasphorus rufus - Rufous Hummingbird [male] 

“A hummingbird’s brilliant throat color is not caused by feather pigmentation, but rather by iridescence in the arrangement of the feathers and the influence of light level, moisture and other factors." More facts here.

Bryophyta of British Columbia, Monty Davidson. 

Parasola - [Tentative]

Coltricia cinnamomea - Cinnamon Cap 

Gaultheria shallon - [Albino] Salal

Although partial or full albinism is rare in plants, it does happen. Unlike albinism in humans, where melanin is being produced in small quantities or not at all, the condition results from a plant’s inability to produce chlorophyl. Because chlorophyl is necessary for plants to photosynthesize, most albino plants do not survive more than a couple of weeks unless they are budding from a parent plant, or have either a symbiotic or parasitic relationship with a fungus. 

Peromyscus - Unknown species of mouse, skeleton most likely exposed through pelt by scavenging insects, preserving bones in near-perfect configuration. 

Camponotus modoc - Western Carpenter Ant interloping among European Garden Spiderlings (Araneus diadematus).

Panellus serotinus - Winter Oyster

Peltigera aphtosa - Green Dog Lichen, Leafy Lichen, Felt Lichen, and Common Freckle Pelt.

Aerial view of the Great Salt Lake in Utah

natgeofound:

People watching a solar eclipse squint through smoked glass or film on Rebun Island in Japan, March 1949.
Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams, National Geographic

I can’t be the only one who enjoys photography of people observing celestial things right?