![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3539/jpeg/17t.jpg) Underside of partially dried brittlegill mushroom Russula compacta in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3539/jpeg/18t.jpg) Cross section of partially dried brittlegill mushroom Russula compacta in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3540/jpeg/27t.jpg) Spores of brittlegill mushrooms Russula compacta collected in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/991/jpeg/03t.jpg) Stones cracked by fire in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, December 17, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/990/jpeg/18t.jpg) Rocks cracked from heat in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, December 17, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3625/jpeg/29t.jpg) Top view of cracked caps of brittlegill mushrooms Russula compacta on Road FS 231 near Pole Creek of Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, September 26, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2650/jpeg/24t.jpg) Flint stones cracked by heat on a site of a recent burn in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, February 23, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2466/jpeg/31t.jpg) Cracked whitish crustous lichen on sandstone of Fehr s Overlook Shelter in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, March 14, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3539/jpeg/03t.jpg) Section of mushroom Amanita mutabilis in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3539/jpeg/22t.jpg) Underside of a mushroom Boletus ochraceoluteus(?) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3540/jpeg/01t.jpg) Dyeball mushroom (Pisolithus arhizus) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3539/jpeg/21t.jpg) Top view of a mushroom Boletus ochraceoluteus(?) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3539/jpeg/23t.jpg) Section of a mushroom Boletus ochraceoluteus(?) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3539/jpeg/08t.jpg) Young mushroom Amanita mutabilis in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3539/jpeg/10t.jpg) Gasteroid mushroom Scleroderma polyrhizum(?) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3539/jpeg/09t.jpg) Section of young mushroom Amanita mutabilis in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3540/jpeg/03t.jpg) Mature dyeball mushroom (Pisolithus arhizus) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3539/jpeg/02t.jpg) Side view of mushroom Amanita mutabilis in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3539/jpeg/04t.jpg) Close-up of section of mushroom Amanita mutabilis in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3539/jpeg/07t.jpg) Bolete mushroom Strobilomyces dryophilus in cross section in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3539/jpeg/11t.jpg) Side view of a gasteroid mushroom Scleroderma polyrhizum(?) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3539/jpeg/30t.jpg) Cross section of young mushroom Amanita mutabilis in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3539/jpeg/29t.jpg) Side view of young mushroom Amanita mutabilis in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3540/jpeg/04t.jpg) Cross section of a mature dyeball mushroom (Pisolithus arhizus) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3385/jpeg/21t.jpg) Dried barometer earthstar mushrooms (Astraeus hygrometricus) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, April 15, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1285/jpeg/18t.jpg) Dried Toad Pond near Roosevelt Cutoff Trail in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 5, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3540/jpeg/28t.jpg) Spores (in KOH, spore print olive) of a mushroom Boletus ochraceoluteus(?) collected in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3539/jpeg/01t.jpg) Mushroom Amanita mutabilis under young pines, oaks, in area burned several times, in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3042/jpeg/12t.jpg) Brittlegill mushrooms Psathyrella pennata in burned area in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 17, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3042/jpeg/14t.jpg) Caps of brittlegill mushrooms Psathyrella pennata in burned area in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 17, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3042/jpeg/13t.jpg) Underside of brittlegill mushrooms Psathyrella pennata in burned area in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 17, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3580/jpeg/09t.jpg) Cracked cap of a mature brittlegill (Russula) mushroom when exposed to regular daylight as well as when illuminated by a 365 nm ultraviolet (UV-A) blacklight in Sosnovka Park. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 30, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3624/jpeg/26t.jpg) Spores of a large white brittlegill mushroom Russula compacta from Road FS 203 collected a day before in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, September 22, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3623/jpeg/13t.jpg) Large white brittlegill mushroom Russula compacta on Road FS 203 near Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, September 21, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3623/jpeg/12t.jpg) Underside of a large white brittlegill mushroom Russula compacta on Road FS 203 near Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, September 21, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3519/jpeg/01t.jpg) Brittlegill mushrooms Russula compacta on Yaupon Loop Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, April 22, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3539/jpeg/25t.jpg) Coneflowers Echinacea sanguinea in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3539/jpeg/26t.jpg) Earthfan mushrooms (Thelephora terrestris) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3540/jpeg/10t.jpg) Brown Mallocybe (Inocybe) mushrooms in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3540/jpeg/12t.jpg) Reddish mushrooms that look like Phaeocollybia jennyae in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3539/jpeg/06t.jpg) Caps of mushrooms Heliocybe sulcata in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3539/jpeg/13t.jpg) Underside of bolete mushrooms Xanthoconium stramineum in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3539/jpeg/27t.jpg) Underside of earthfan mushrooms (Thelephora terrestris) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3539/jpeg/05t.jpg) Mushrooms Heliocybe sulcata on dry stalk of horseweed(?) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3540/jpeg/14t.jpg) Heartleaf sandmat spurge Euphorbia cordifolia in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3539/jpeg/12t.jpg) Top view of bolete mushrooms Xanthoconium stramineum in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3540/jpeg/02t.jpg) Large (3x4 cm) false truffle Rhizopogon luteolus in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3539/jpeg/24t.jpg) Sanguine purple coneflowers (Echinacea sanguinea) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3539/jpeg/28t.jpg) Earthfan mushrooms (Thelephora terrestris) among dry pine needles in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3540/jpeg/11t.jpg) Dark fibrecap (Inocybe) mushrooms on a trodden path in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3540/jpeg/09t.jpg) Cup fungus Sphaerosporella brunnea (S. hinnulea) on a side of a trail in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3540/jpeg/08t.jpg) Close-up of Ascomycete mushrooms Sphaerosporella brunnea (S. hinnulea) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3540/jpeg/31t.jpg) Spores of reddish mushrooms looking like Phaeocollybia jennyae, collected in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3539/jpeg/19t.jpg) Brown fibrecap mushrooms Inocybe lanuginosa or may be I. ovatocystis(?) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3540/jpeg/13t.jpg) Reddish mushrooms that look like Phaeocollybia jennyae on black background in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3539/jpeg/15t.jpg) Cross section of bolete mushrooms Xanthoconium stramineum in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3539/jpeg/14t.jpg) Pore surface of bolete mushrooms Xanthoconium stramineum in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3540/jpeg/26t.jpg) Spores of bolete mushrooms Xanthoconium stramineum collected in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3540/jpeg/29t.jpg) Spores (in KOH) of dark Inocybe mushrooms from a trodden path, collected in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3539/jpeg/20t.jpg) Underside of brown fibrecap mushrooms Inocybe lanuginosa or may be I. ovatocystis(?) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3540/jpeg/22t.jpg) Spores of a large false truffle Rhizopogon luteolus collected in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3540/jpeg/24t.jpg) Spores of mushrooms Heliocybe sulcata from a dry stalk of horseweed? collected in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3580/jpeg/06t.jpg) Yellow brittlegill mushrooms (Russula claroflava(?)) partially lit by ultraviolet light in Sosnovka Park. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 30, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3540/jpeg/06t.jpg) Brown Ascomycete mushrooms Sphaerosporella brunnea (S. hinnulea) on clayey soil in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3540/jpeg/05t.jpg) Small dark brown fibrecap (Inocybe) mushrooms on a trodden path in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3540/jpeg/25t.jpg) Spores of bolete mushrooms Strobilomyces dryophilus, near young pines, in KOH, collected in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3540/jpeg/20t.jpg) Paraphyses of cup mushrooms Sphaerosporella brunnea under a microscope with x100 objective collected in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3540/jpeg/21t.jpg) Round spores inside asci of cup mushrooms Sphaerosporella brunnea collected in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3540/jpeg/07t.jpg) Small cups of Ascomycete mushrooms Sphaerosporella brunnea (S. hinnulea) on bare soil in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3512/jpeg/09t.jpg) Red and partially violet brittlegill mushrooms (Russula) on a gravel path covered by oak leaves in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, April 16, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2381/jpeg/14t.jpg) Buchwaldoboletus(?) mushroom in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 14, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3540/jpeg/17t.jpg) Asci of cup mushrooms Sphaerosporella brunnea under a microscope with x40 objective on a trodden path, mixed with old ash, collected in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3540/jpeg/30t.jpg) Spores (in lugol, spore print light brown)of larger Mallocybe mushrooms collected in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2381/jpeg/15t.jpg) Gills of Buchwaldoboletus(?) mushroom in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 14, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2381/jpeg/19t.jpg) Cap of bolete mushroom Leccinoideae in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 14, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2381/jpeg/18t.jpg) Bolete mushroom Leccinoideae in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 14, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2381/jpeg/16t.jpg) Dissected Buchwaldoboletus(?) mushroom in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 14, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2603/jpeg/13t.jpg) Phellinus polypore mushroom on a fallen oak in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, November 28, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2672/jpeg/16t.jpg) Brown gills of Agaricus mushroom in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, March 24, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3043/jpeg/08t.jpg) Mature Laetiporus(?) mushroom on oak wood in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 17, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2381/jpeg/20t.jpg) Dissected bolete mushroom Leccinoideae in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 14, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2090/jpeg/09t.jpg) Cracked cap of milk-white brittlegill mushroom (Russula delica) in Sosnovka Park. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 12, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3540/jpeg/19t.jpg) Asci with spores of cup mushrooms Sphaerosporella brunnea under a microscope with x40 objective on a trodden path, mixed with old ash, collected in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3540/jpeg/23t.jpg) Spores of mushrooms Amanita mutabilis under young pines, oaks, several times burned area, collected in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2672/jpeg/24t.jpg) Peeling puffball mushroom (Lycoperdon marginatum) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, March 24, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3331/jpeg/04t.jpg) Resupinate polypore mushroom on a fallen pine(?) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, January 21, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2769/jpeg/03t.jpg) Cap of some gilled mushroom in burnt pine forest in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, September 10, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2603/jpeg/07t.jpg) Close up of resupinate polypore mushroom under a pine log in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, November 28, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2603/jpeg/02t.jpg) Close up of a puffball mushroom Lycoperdon marginatum in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, November 28, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1286/jpeg/08t.jpg) Boletus mushroom on Lost Pines Trail in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 5, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2603/jpeg/06t.jpg) Some white resupinate polypore mushroom under a pine log in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, November 28, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2603/jpeg/14t.jpg) Close up of Phellinus polypore mushroom on a fallen oak in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, November 28, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1286/jpeg/18t.jpg) Boletus mushroom Lost Pines Trail in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 5, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3540/jpeg/18t.jpg) Asci and paraphyses of cup mushrooms Sphaerosporella brunnea under a microscope with x100 objective on a trodden path, mixed with old ash, collected in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, May 17, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2769/jpeg/02t.jpg) Underside of some gilled mushroom in burnt pine forest in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, September 10, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2381/jpeg/22t.jpg) Underside of blue milkcap mushroom (Lactarius indigo) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 14, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2381/jpeg/23t.jpg) Gills of blue milkcap mushroom (Lactarius indigo) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 14, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2381/jpeg/25t.jpg) Dissected blue milkcap mushroom (Lactarius indigo) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 14, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2672/jpeg/23t.jpg) Young peeling puffball mushroom (Lycoperdon marginatum) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, March 24, 2020
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