Photo by Mark Larson
We frequently find one of our favorite colorful local mushrooms, Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric or fly amanita, at Sue-meg State Park north of Trinidad, and sometimes all along nearby highway 101. According to sources, after emerging from the ground, the cap is covered with numerous small white to yellow pyramid-shaped warts. These are remnants of the universal veil, a membrane that encloses the entire mushroom when it is still very young.
Photo by Mark Larson
Mushroom prints on shirts and mushroom costumes were in the crowd of attendees at the Humboldt Bay Mycological Society's Mushroom Fair.
Photo by Mark Larson
Volunteer Dr. Bruce Kessler was back at his well-stocked "Toxic" mushroom table with his expertise on toxic mushrooms and likely medical outcomes if they're ingested at the Humboldt Bay Mycological Society's Mushroom Fair.
Photo by Mark Larson
A packed parking lot at the Arcata Community Center and a large crowd at every display table inside at the 44th annual Humboldt Bay Mycological Society's Mushroom Fair.
Photo by Mark Larson
Most of the volunteers at the display tables kept Noah Siegel's popular book, Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast, in hand to help talk about the mushroom species in front of them.
Photo by Mark Larson
Sydney Fisher Larson, of Arcata, worked her smartphone magic with a large display of oyster mushrooms, the common name for the species Pleurotus ostreatus, at Sue-meg State Park.
Photo by Mark Larson
We frequently find one of our favorite colorful local mushrooms, Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric or fly amanita, at Sue-meg State Park north of Trinidad, and sometimes all along nearby highway 101. According to sources, after emerging from the ground, the cap is covered with numerous small white to yellow pyramid-shaped warts. These are remnants of the universal veil, a membrane that encloses the entire mushroom when it is still very young.
Photo by Mark Larson
We frequently find one of our favorite colorful local mushrooms, Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric or fly amanita, at Sue-meg State Park north of Trinidad, and sometimes all along nearby highway 101. According to sources, after emerging from the ground, the cap is covered with numerous small white to yellow pyramid-shaped warts. These are remnants of the universal veil, a membrane that encloses the entire mushroom when it is still very young.
Photo by Mark Larson
We frequently find one of our favorite colorful local mushrooms, Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric or fly amanita, at Sue-meg State Park north of Trinidad, and sometimes all along nearby highway 101. According to sources, after emerging from the ground, the cap is covered with numerous small white to yellow pyramid-shaped warts. These are remnants of the universal veil, a membrane that encloses the entire mushroom when it is still very young.
Photo by Mark Larson
We frequently find one of our favorite colorful local mushrooms, Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric or fly amanita, at Sue-meg State Park north of Trinidad, and sometimes all along nearby highway 101. According to sources, after emerging from the ground, the cap is covered with numerous small white to yellow pyramid-shaped warts. These are remnants of the universal veil, a membrane that encloses the entire mushroom when it is still very young.