Weather (KIAH): Rain. Temperature 16.9° (3.7° lower than normal), min. 17°, max. 17°, min. over preceding two weeks is 13°. Wind speed 13.2 km/hour. Precipitation 51.5 mm (1026% normal), preceding two weeks 23% normal, preceding two months 60% normal.
Peeling puffball mushrooms (Lycoperdon marginatum) on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, October 19, 2013
Crashed egg of stalked lattice stinkhorn mushroom (Lysurus periphragmoides) on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, October 19, 2013
Milkcap mushrooms (Lactarius) on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, October 19, 2013
Golden Bolete mushroom (Buchwaldoboletus hemichrysus) at the base of a pine tree on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, October 19, 2013
Young velvet-top fungus (Phaeolus schweinitzii mushroom) on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, October 19, 2013
Bright golden yellow mushroom Pulveroboletus curtisii (Boletus curtisii) on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, October 19, 2013
Underneath side of cap of mature boletus mushroom (Boletus viridiflavus(?)) on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, October 19, 2013
Brown Amanita mushroom on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, October 19, 2013
Small carrot-footed Lepidella mushroom (Amanita daucipes) on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, October 19, 2013
Emerging carrot-footed Lepidella mushrooms (Amanita daucipes) on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, October 19, 2013
Brittlegill (Russula sp.) mushroom on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, October 19, 2013
Carrot-footed Lepidella mushrooms (Amanita daucipes) on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, October 19, 2013
Caesar's mushroom (Amanita caesarea) on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, October 19, 2013
Amanita fulva like mushroom on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, October 19, 2013
Grey Amanita fulva like mushroom on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, October 19, 2013
Old man of the woods mushroom (Strobilomyces confusus) on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, October 19, 2013
Green brittlegill (Russula sp.) mushroom on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, October 19, 2013
Common funnel cap mushroom (Clitocybe gibba, Infundibulicybe gibba) on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, October 19, 2013
Underneath side of caps of mature bolote mushrooms on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, October 19, 2013
Death cap like Amanita mushrooms on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, October 19, 2013
Austroboletus subflavidus mushroom on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, October 19, 2013
Mature puffball mushroom on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, October 19, 2013
Velvet-top fungus (Phaeolus schweinitzii mushrooms) on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, October 19, 2013
Mature velvet-top fungus (Phaeolus schweinitzii mushroom) on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, October 19, 2013
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