Chelton's Mushroom Photography

Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 12:53 UTC

Thanks! I agree - they do! 🍄🍄🙂🙏🏼

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 12:52 UTC

Until I came across this spot, which had quite a few white Amanita that showed signs of being A. muscaria (typical fire-engine red still visible where the shaded spots were), I thought the same. Though there are white / light colored Amanitas out there, so maybe it's both! 🙂🍄

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 14:18 UTC

This family of sun-bleached Amanita muscaria was in a beautiful spot - a mossy bank of dirt surrounded by oak trees and backlit by a falling sun 🍁🟢🍄📷📸🎞

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 14:14 UTC

Thank you!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼💚💛🍄

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 13:30 UTC

This beautiful parrot mushroom, Gliophorus psittacinus, was in a great spot to soak up some bright, diffused sunlight, making the colors on it and everything surrounding it the perfect amount of highlighted and vibrant 🟢💛💚🍄📷📸🎞

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 13:27 UTC

If it is, that would be awesome! Not sure I've come across these before or after I got this photo 🙂🙂🍄

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 13:36 UTC

A tiny orange Hygrocybe shows off its vibrant reddish-orange colors and slightly rough texture 🟢🧡❤️🍄📷📸🎞

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 13:33 UTC

A couple more great specimens of the Earthy Powdercap, Cystoderma amianthinu, standing in thick moss near the side of a residential road of a gated island community in Washington 🟢🍄📷📸🎞

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 13:29 UTC

Thank you! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙂🍄

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 13:29 UTC

😄🍄🧚‍♀️

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 13:29 UTC

Thank you! 🙂🙏🏼🍄

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 14:46 UTC

The evolution of the shape of an Amanita muscaria, shown in a single display by this little family ❤️👩‍👦‍👦🍄🍄🍄📷📸🎞

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 14:41 UTC

🍬🍄🙂

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 14:41 UTC

🎨🙏🏼🍄🙂

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 14:41 UTC

Haha, thanks! I think technically you could eat these, but they probably wouldn't be good in any way 😆🍄

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 14:09 UTC

This is one of my favorite parrot mushroom portraits that I've taken! Just a perfect profile of a perfect Gliophorus psittacinus 💚💛🍄📷📸🎞

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 13:52 UTC

Love these little yellow circular blobs! They're more accurately known as the Yellow Fairy Cups, or Bisporella citrina 💛🍋🍌🧚‍♂️🥤🍄📷📸🎞

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 13:33 UTC

Another beautiful waxy cap mushroom that I'm positive is Hygrocybe singeri. Outside of the neon yellow, you can see a hint of orange peeking out from the other side of the cap, the blackening marks, and the shiny / slimy stipe 🧡💛🍄📷📸🎞

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 13:51 UTC

These little white champagne flute mushrooms are apparently Clavicorona taxophila. Found on the grounds of a college campus in Washington near western red cedars 🤍🥂🍄📷📸🎞

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 13:43 UTC

Peeking out from underneath a cedar root, this Gliophorus psittacinus, AKA the parrot mushroom, was easy to spot, but difficult to photograph! 🟢💚💛🍄📷📸🎞

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 13:40 UTC

Or was it too much sun exposure that bleached it? 🤔🍄

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 14:16 UTC

A gorgeous Amanita muscaria gets its range of colors from wet oak leaves that prevented sun exposure as it developed 🌅🍂🍄📷📸🎞

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 14:13 UTC

Hahaha I love that mental image 🧅🎩🍄🙂

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 12:39 UTC

Hygrocybe singeri comes in a few colors, but this mostly yellow one with just a hint of reddish-orange at the tip of its cap was a fun find for me. The blackening effect on the cap and the slimy stipe make me confident this is H. singeri 💛💛🍄📷📸🎞

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 12:37 UTC

😆😆🍄

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 12:36 UTC

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 12:36 UTC

😯🍄🍄🙂

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 12:36 UTC

😆😆😆🍄

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 12:36 UTC

😎🍄🙏🏼🙂

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 12:51 UTC

A crazy monster-like Helvella towers over the ground on a college campus in Washington 👾🟢🍄📷📸🎞

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 13:49 UTC

This amazingly bumpy mushroom is probably the Earthy Powdercap, Cystoderma amianthinu. Love the color contrast of beige / tan & green! 🟢🧡💚🍄📷📸🎞

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 13:43 UTC

I use them all the time! iNaturalist is my go-to. Doesn't still mean that mushrooms can be hard to ID, though! To get specific with species, sometimes microscopic inspection of the spores is required. Some mushrooms are certainly easier to ID than others, though 🙂🙂🍄

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 13:42 UTC

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼😆😆🍄

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 13:59 UTC

This is one of my other favorite mushrooms, Hygrocybe singeri. I used to frequently mistakenly call these Hygrocybe conica, but it turns out that they don't have the viscid stipe that singeri does, and they don't grow quite as commonly in the areas I visit. Mushroom IDs are hard! 🧡💛🍄📷📸🎞

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 13:56 UTC

Thank you so much! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙂🍄

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 13:57 UTC

Two perfect Amanita muscaria hang out side-by-side 🌟🌟🍄📷📸🎞

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 13:54 UTC

We were totally inundated! 😆🍄 And thanks! 🙂🙏🏼🍄

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 13:54 UTC

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙂🍄

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 13:43 UTC

In 2021, my wife and I went on a trip to a location I picked out that appeared to be ripe with this incredible mushroom, Gliophorus psittacinus. Turns out I picked the right spot, because during that trip we found ourselves surrounded by them! 💛💚🦜🍄📷📸🎞

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 13:40 UTC

Agreed! 🙏🏼🙂🍄

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 13:37 UTC

Love the near-symmetrical pattern created in the margin of this Amanita muscaria's cap where the veil remnants / warts are starting to separate as it expands 🌿🍄📷📸🎞

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 13:34 UTC

Nice find! 🍄🙂

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 13:34 UTC

🙏🏼🙂🍄

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 16, 2024 at 14:23 UTC

This amazingly beautiful coral fungus is one of my favorite things to come across in the forest. It looks unnatural because of how vibrantly colored it is without being a flower. I believe this is Ramaria araiospora 🟢❤️❤️🍄📷📸🎞

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 15, 2024 at 13:54 UTC

A beautiful family of Amanita muscaria shows up at a business park that uses oak trees as decoration 🌱🍄📷📸🎞

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 13:50 UTC

A very deep purple and young violet cort, Cortinarius violaceus, shows up nicely in the rain 💧🟢💜💜🍄📷📸🎞

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 13:32 UTC

A very odd looking Helvella mushroom, likely the Western Black Elfin Saddle, Helvella vespertina (love that Latin name!) 🟢🤍🖤🍄📷📸🎞

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 13:28 UTC

I learned this last year after calling almost every bolete that looks like this a Zeller's bolete! 🙂🍄🍄

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 13:43 UTC

Xerocomellus atropurpureus is commonly mistakenly identified as the Zeller's bolete. They look very similar, but X. atropurpureus apparently grows much more commonly on the west coast in the Americas ❤️💛🟢🍄📷📸🎞

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 13:37 UTC

🤷‍♂️😁🍄

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