Equador 2011

The tropical mushroom hunters, L to R Betsy Montgomery, Belleamie Broadsword, Reba Tam, Lloyd Clayton, Milton Tam all about to eat at the Kichwa village near Misahualli, Ecuador.

Boletus communis, one of the few fleshy fungi we encountered in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

This cordyceps anamorph was growing on an insect pupae that was totally hollowed out, in Celia hostel in Mindo, Ecuador. I did get some rather uninteresting microphotos of bushy hyphae.

No sooner did we find these Dictyophora indusiata than the name changed to Phallus indusiata. Daniel Winkler photographs a specimen we located by its cadaverous smell.

A baby tarantula waits for someone to drop by for dinner, during the midnight jungle walk.

One of many interesting but unidentified Pleuteus we encountered.

These beautiful indigo Leptonia have really cool angular spores as well. Found in primary rain forest.