Day 26: Bigger and better! I took a lunchtime patrol to check on Ramaria araiospora and was pleased to see that the primary specimen had at least doubled in size and had not been found by collectors. The second smaller specimen had also "gained some weight" and was already bleaching out to orangey-pink, but even more exciting was the discovery of a third colony closer to the stream. This indicates that the mycorrhiza is healthy and spreading. I had been worried about the specimens in this group after someone cut them to the ground a few years back. I checked a second location where I had previously seen this species, but there was no evidence of growth in that area. This brilliantly-coloured Ramaria is known only from the Pacific Northwest and Kansas, although it's debated that the latter incidence is a separate species.
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