Mushrooms Around Vancouver

After a white water rafting trip down the Nahatlach river we decided to go for hike.  I was surprised to see the variety of mushrooms growing along the trail.  I didn't have my camera (after damaging it in the Merrit trip) so Andrea Mark and I took pictures using Mark's camera.  We found some pretty good mushrooms - Amanita muscaria (Fly agaric) and Lycoperdon perlatum (Gem-studded Puffball).

A few weeks later (September 4th, 2001) I noticed a large white object growing in the grass field outside my window at work.  Turns out what I saw was a large mushroom - Clitocybe gigantea (Giant Clitocybe).  I brought my camera down and took some pictures:

It turns out mushrooms are hard to identify.  I've tried to identify most of these mushrooms but my three books doesn't isolate these species.

Late in the hiking season (November 17th, 2001) we went for an afternoon hike at the UBC demonstration forest.  With my new mushrooms sensing eyes, I noticed a few more samples of Fungus.