{"id":7002,"date":"2013-08-31T18:05:31","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T01:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/?p=7002"},"modified":"2013-09-01T07:30:43","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T14:30:43","slug":"flagstaff-august-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/flagstaff-august-part-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Flagstaff August Part One"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"mjensen_inner-basin-trailhead-amanita-2433\"Rain every day (and a few overnights) meant there was plenty of fungi this trip! It also meant conditions were pretty much the same as July making photography challenging again. All but a few of my images were taken with either my Smartphone or my Canon compacts. They all got fairly wet at times but survived!<\/p>\n

Hunting was most productive on the Inner Basin trail<\/a><\/strong> which starts at Lockett Meadow. The heavy rains have kept the forest and Aspen groves especially wet which is ideal for fungi. Some came up literally overnight after a heavy rain. These beautiful but poisonous Amanita are great examples.<\/p>\n

\"Amanita<\/a>

Amanita Muscaria<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Amanita<\/a>

Amanita pantherina<\/p><\/div>\n

The trail starts at 8600 Feet and ascends to over 10,000 feet (3048 m). Yes…very steep! However, traveling at a snail\u2019s pace looking for fungi, I didn\u2019t notice the difficulty at all. In fact, I love the trail so much; I ended up hiking it 5 times while there. Each time I went, I saw more species. Following are some of my finds on the Inner Basin Trail. As you might imagine, they are only a fraction of the images I took! Identifying them is still very difficult for me but I am learning slowly but surely. Part Two will feature fungi from a few of my other favorite trails<\/p>\n

\"Honey<\/a>

Honey Mushrooms (edible)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"mjensen_inner-basin-trail-honey-8556\"<\/a>

Honey Mushrooms (edible)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Bracket<\/a>

Bracket Fungus<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Pholiota<\/a>

Pholiota – most common genus but so many shapes!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Pholiota<\/a>

Pholiota – most common genus but so many shapes!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Strap<\/a>

Strap Coral – First sighting<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Unidentified<\/a>

Unidentified beauty<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Oyster<\/a>

Oyster Mushroom – edible<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Russula\"<\/a>

Russula<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Several<\/a>

Several Bracket fungus caught my eye but there’s something else! (Ganoderma applanatum)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Looking<\/a>

Looking very closely at the Fungus, I notece Pleasing Fungus Beetle Larva<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Adult<\/a>

Adult Pleasing Fungus Beetles doing their thing<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Possibly<\/a>

Possibly Clitocybe maxima<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Possibly<\/a>

Possibly Hygrophorus or Hygrocybe – aka “Waxy Caps”<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Possibly<\/a>

Possibly Hygrophorus or Hygrocybe – aka “Waxy Caps”<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Possibly<\/a>

Possibly Armillaria straminea<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Marasmius<\/a>

Marasmius aka Pinwheel mushroom. A pine needle decomposer<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Gyromytra<\/a>

Gyromytra insula aka “Elfin Saddle”<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rain every day (and a few overnights) meant there was plenty of fungi this trip! It also meant conditions were pretty much the same as July making photography challenging again. All but a few of my images were taken with either my Smartphone or my Canon compacts. They all got fairly wet at times but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,179,173],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7002"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7109,"href":"https:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7002\/revisions\/7109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}