December 4/2008
Pacific Spirit Regional Park, the south-east corner. My camera battery died about half an hour into my walk, but I still managed to get a few good shots.
November 23/2008
Out at Acadia Beach we found some interesting things growing on logs.
November 19/2008
A yellow Amanita. These mushrooms were found out by the Joyce Street Skytrain station.
Earthball mushrooms (Scleroderma sp.). When you stomp on them, they release a cloud of black spores - it's dandelion-clock-fun. On the left: intact earthballs; on the right: a squished one.
These are elfin saddle mushrooms, Helvella lacunosa.
November 18/2008
My friend Sonya tipped me off about these ones. These are Amanita muscaria mushrooms, and they're growing out at UBC.
An Amanita "egg" emerging from the ground. The white covering is called a universal veil - as the mushroom grows, this will break apart and become the white spots.
June 16/2008
Pacific Spirit Regional Park - by the side of a trail.
October 14/2006
Baden-Powel trail through North Vancouver.
