Over the years I've spent a lot of time in the neighboring states and provinces around Montana. In one season in Oregon, I saw 5 years worth of species diversity compared to the drier forests of Montana.
This unique blue-staining cup fungus fruits above squirrel's spruce cone caches that it infects.
This mushroom has been called Macrolepiota rachodes or Lepiota rachodes for a long time. Now it is called Chlorophyllum rachodes.
No matter what the name, it is a big strong tasting mushroom that lives in tall grass and fruits in the spring, summer, and fall.
Participants at the 3rd International Mycomedicinals Conference about to go on foray, Olympic peninsula 2005.
In the forests around Randle, WA, I witnessed tremendous matsutake and lobster mushroom habitat.
Here is a newly uncovered "nest" of the American matsutake, Tricholoma magnivelare. Also called the "white" matsutake, or the pine mushroom, it is found from the southern parts of the Colorado Rockies way up into Canada and along the coast. Similar or perhaps identical mushrooms grow in the mountains of Mexico as well. Matsutake grow under Doug fir, pine, Shasta fir, subalpine fir, usually in a mixed ecosystem.
The coastal areas offer a unique assortment of fungi, some of which are found no where else. The pastures outside Vancouver attracted a lot of interest from people looking for Psilocybe semilancelata, which is not illegal in British Columbia.
This innocuous mushroom can be found in lawns from Vancouver to Newport. It is certainly a pupil dialator.
