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Hidden Valley fungi

An important and often overlooked aspect of Hidden Valley is its diversity of fungi, comprising approximately 90% of its forest floor’s biomass. Fungi have a symbiotic relationship with trees and plants whereby the vast network of fungal threads provide sustenance which is reciprocated with sugars for fruiting and propagation.

Examples of fungi, sometimes referred to as mushrooms, found at Hidden Valley include slime molds, sac, corals, puffballs, bracket, boletes, and gilled. The photographic collage features:

Blue Stain Fungus, Eyelash Cup, White Bird’s Nest, Dead Man’s Fingers, Puffball in Aspic, Pear-Shaped Puffballs, Carnival Candy Slime, Branched Purple Coral, Yellow Spindle Coral, Green Jelly Babies, Violet-Toothed Polypore, Chicken of the Woods, Old Man of the Woods, Blue-Stain Bolete, King Bolete, Fragrant Chanterelle, Jack-O-Lantern, Horn of Plenty, Fuzzy Foot, Viscid Violet Cort, American Caesar’s Mushroom, Yellow Waxcap, Scarlet Waxcap, Salmon-Colored Nolanea, Fly Agaric, Yellow Patches, Emetic Russula, Destroying Angel.

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style="font-style: italic; font-family: Nimbus Sans L;">Richard Kretz is a photographer and naturalist who chronicles his adventures in southwest Virginia at http://www.pbase.com/diggitydogs/clinch_mountain.  Stay tuned to read more of his writeup on Hidden Valley Wildlife Management Area, or click on the tag for "hidden_valley" to read previous posts in this series.

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