Photos taken with a jnPhone.

(Often wish I had my big camera, but in the forest I’m a forager first and photographer 238th.)

Amanita hold me tighter…The wondrous world of Amanita muscaria

The wondrous world of  Amanita pantherina… we feel cool just saying it

McDowell thinks boletus are super maximum cool. Huge smile when one is found.

The cauliflowers we have known.

Oh Chanties – everyone knows you, everyone loves you!

With Corals It’s All About The Tips

We’re mad for morels. But we only take photos of these toxic kids.

Monotropa uniflora, Just say pffftt to chlorophyll and get symbiotic with mushrooms and trees.

Teeth Rock!

Plentiful and happy – some pooh-pooh them. We like ’em! (But not with wine.)

Beautiful colour, Awesome texture. 

Stunning orange and delicious, McDowell jumps for joy when a flash of orange is spotted.

Too cool for school. We feel pretty rad when we find morels.

Spring and fall just wouldn’t be the same without oyster mushroom runs.

Matsutake. Smell Them, Pick Them. Smell Them, Eat Them.

They huff and they puff. Who doesn’t find puffballs cool?

If they’re good enough for the Ice People. They’re good enough for us!

Open pore gill ploypores. Impossible you say, check out these hexie Polyporus alveolaris

Trametes versicolor, turkey tail – by any name, it’s a powerful medicinal mushroom.