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Blue Berberis berries on a spiny shrub

A hanging cluster of blue, waxy-coated Berberis berries grows beside stiff, spiny-edged leaves on a woody shrub.

A hanging cluster of blue, waxy-coated Berberis berries grows beside stiff, spiny-edged leaves on a woody shrub.

Album Small wonders beside the trail

Trail Running Ecuador · Uso editorial con crédito

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Red fruiting bodies top small Cladonia lichen cups among pale lichen scales and dry vegetation.
Red-tipped Cladonia lichen
Small white Lycoperdon puffballs covered in conical spines grow on soil among dry twigs and grass.
White spiny Lycoperdon puffballs
A brown-capped Agaricus mushroom grows beside moss, exposed roots and leaf litter.
Brown Agaricus mushroom on mossy ground
Brown Suillus mushrooms lie among grass and pine litter, with a yellow sponge-like pore surface visible on a damaged fruit body.
Brown Suillus mushrooms in grass
Thin overlapping Stereum brackets form orange-brown bands on a tree trunk, with smooth orange undersides.
Orange-brown Stereum brackets on a trunk
Clustered Phlegmariurus clubmoss shoots branch repeatedly above páramo plants, with dense tiny leaves covering each stem.
Phlegmariurus clubmoss shoots in páramo