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These Toadstools are just a breif stroll from the Highway just east of the pariah ranger station outpost
Investigating alien life forms-due to our heat and dry, desert air, toadstools and mushrooms do not frequently grow in New Mexico yards.
More Entrada sandstone, this time about 30 miles from Lake Powell. The cap on top is Dakota sandstone. Eventually the softer Entrada will erode faster & leave the big Dakota rock on the ground
Superdomain: Neomura
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): Opisthokonta
(unranked) Holozoa
(unranked) Filozoa
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Anthozoa
Subclass: Octocorallia
Order: Alcyonacea
Family: Alcyoniidae
The larger toadstool is Butter Cap (Collybia butyracea), a species I also found in a grassy verge not far away from here. Here, it's growing in a shady Spruce plantation. The small blue-grey toadstools are presumably immature and a different species.