- Calvatia cyathiformis Tayrona
Calvatia cyathiformis a common puffball in the tropics and also in Tayrona - Calostoma cinnabarinum with peridium
Bright red Calostoma peridium, a protective layer growing around the endoperidum with its raised peristome, the ridge of tissue around the opening for spore disposal. - Calostoma cinnabarinum mouth
Calostoma cinnabarinum mouth DW Ms - Calostoma cinnabarinum 2 showing stipe
Calostoma cinnabarinum with its weird stipe - Calostoma cinnabarinum
Calostoma cinnabarinum, aka Pretty mouth based on its greek derived scientific name or more prosaic Stalked puffball in aspic - Calostoma cinnabarinum
Calostoma cinnabarinum - Calostoma 3 and sliced
Calostoma cinnabarinum, a most weird oak associate in the boletales. - Calocera Tayrona
Looks like a Calocera. Seen in Tayrona. - Butterfly RC
Butterfly seen in Rio Claro - Boomerang owl butterfly Caligo oedipus Nymphalidae
Boomerang owl butterfly - Caligo oedipus, Nymphalidae - Boletinellus monticola (= Gyrodon monticola)
Boletinellus (Gyrodon) monticola seen in Jardin. Some alders or other mycorrhizal partner must have been close by. - Boletellus auriporus tubesTayrona
Boletellus auriporus tubes. We were surprised to run into ectomycorrhizals on the Caribbean coast of Colombia. - Boletellus auriporus in Tayrona
Boletellus auriporus growing with seagrape (Coccoloba uvifera, Polygonaceae) - Bolbitius broadwayi inJardin
Bolbitius broadwayi seen in Jardin - Blumenavia rhacodes
Blumenavia rhacodes is an odd stinkhorn seen in the Andean oak forest near Jardin - Blue tailed Lizard on leaf
A Blue tailed Lizard on leaf seen in Tayrona - Blue flowering Salvia sp. sage in Jardin
What a blue this flower offers above Jardin - bird Tayrona
Our guide Haider knew this bird right away and I did not take notes. Seen in Tayrona - Big tree Rio Claro
A big tree seen in Rio Claro - Auricularia polytricha hymenium Jardin
Auricularia polytricha showing its hymenium in Jardin