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On peltigera

A fungus turns some of the leaves red, mimicking flowers. Insects land on them and carry away spores. Host is Arctostaphylos uva-ursi.

Brian Booth State Park, near where kayaks are launched. Galls on Spiraea douglasii. The name is a wild guess.

Skeletonizing one patch of willow (Salix sp.) along the Sno-park parking area.
ID tentative

Gall on rose (Rosa sp.)
Main part of gall on underside of leaf; top shows small round hump
ID tentative

Small black and other color dots in clusters on the underside of a hazelnut leaf. Fungi? Insect frass?

And P. ambigua.

Cyanomorph of Ricasolia amplissima (Dendriscocaulon sp.).

Badly distorted elder leaves. I wasn’t able to find an obvious cause like aphid frass

Crushed leaves smelled like vinegar. Very small, growing in a vernally wet area beside Downingia and cryptantha. Many plants have already lost their flowers while some are in bud.

Cyanomorph of Ricasolia amplissima spp. amplissima "Dendriscocaulon intricatulum"

"Lobaria oregana" Lobaria silvae-veteris compound thallus with a primary cyanmorph and budding chloromorphs.

Coastal rock

Tentative ID, not sure which species?

On resin of large fallen Tsuga heterophylla. stalk about 1.5 mm max.

asci 91-110 x 6.5-8.5. Spores dark brown, 1 septate, 14.8-16.2 x 5.3-7.
KOH-

On Peltigera in interdunal wetland

On alder branch
In person the color looked blue-gray and contrasted with the greenish color of adjacent Hypotrachyna sinuosa
Rhizines simple to sparsely branched

On upper leaf surface of holly.
Last photo shows underside of same leaf.

Found fallen on Big Hump on the Duckabush trail, on the 9th switchback. Under Pseudotsuga and Acer. Altitude 300m.

On deciduous shrub

This appears to be a green algal form of Peltigera collina. It was growing beside many other P. collina that had the typical darker coloration.

From the Type Locality

Very low relative abundance.

?? A patch of these was growing/blooming on top of the south jetty at Florence.

On tip of fallen dead hemlock snag in Williams Creek Ecological Reserve

Marys Peak at about 2800ft. Air Temp: 35 F. Female!