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This rainforest has plenty of precipitation and the temperature remains relatively constant, therefore many plant and fungi species flourish there. On a geological time scale, fairly recently during the Little Ice Age, glaciers were abundant in southeast Alaska. The ice age's last maximum ended about 10,000 years ago.
Fomitopsis pinicola, is a stem decay fungus common on softwood and hardwood trees. [1] Its conk (fruit body) is known as the red-belted conk. The species is common throughout temperate Europe and Asia. [1] It is a decay fungus that serves as a small-scale disturbance agent in coastal rainforest ecosystems.
Amanita muscaria. Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric or fly amanita, [ 5 ] is a basidiomycete of the genus Amanita. It is a large white- gilled, white-spotted, and usually red mushroom. Despite its easily distinguishable features, A. muscaria is a fungus with several known variations, or subspecies.
Leccinum atrostipitatum A.H. Sm., Thiers & Watling (1966) Leccinum versipelle, also known as Boletus testaceoscaber, dark-stalked bolete, or orange birch bolete, is a common species of mushroom that may be edible when given the right preparation. It is found below birches from July through to November, and turns black when cooked.
Phellinus igniarius (syn. Phellinus trivialis), commonly known as the willow bracket, fire sponge, false tinder polypore, punk ash polypore, [1] or false tinder conk, [2] is a fungus of the family Hymenochaetaceae. Like other members of the genus of Phellinus, it lives by saprotrophic nutrition, in which the lignin and cellulose of a host tree ...
M. tomentosa is a fire-associated species described from western North America, formally described as new to science in 2008. [1] Morchella tomentosa is identified by its post-fire occurrence, fine hairs on the surface of young fruit bodies, and a thick, "double-walled" stem. [1][3] It also has unique sclerotia -like underground parts. [4]
Tsuga heterophylla, the western hemlock[2] or western hemlock-spruce, [3] is a species of hemlock native to the west coast of North America, with its northwestern limit on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, and its southeastern limit in northern Sonoma County, California. [4][5] The Latin species name means 'variable leaves'. [6]
Phallus ravenelii, commonly known as Ravenel's stinkhorn, [2] is a fungus in the Phallaceae (stinkhorn) family. It is found in eastern North America. Its mushrooms commonly grow in large clusters and are noted for their foul odor and phallic shape when mature. It is saprobic, and as such it is encountered in a wide variety of habitats rich in ...