Pacific Giant Salamander in the Wild

[Dan F]

I happened across this beauty while mushroom hunting. Notice the car keys - this guy was big! They are considered the world's largest terrestrial salamander, though there are a LOT bigger aquatic species.

Location: Drakes Crossing, Oregon
Date: November 4th, 2007

Pacific Giant Salamander, Dicamptodon tenebrosus

Chanterelle, Cantharellus cibarius

Matsutake, Tricholoma matsutake

 

[Gr8KarmaSF]

Cool...ummm what kind of mushrooms do you collect? for cooking?

 

[Gourami Swami]

wow, you go mushroom hunting? For cooking? or do you have like mushroom terrariums? lol... nice fat slalmander

 

[Crazy Taco]

thats awesome!

 

[Dan F]

wow, you go mushroom hunting? For cooking? or do you have like mushroom terrariums? lol... nice fat slalmander

Actually, I'm more of a trophy hunter. That big matsutake is stuffed, mounted, and hung on my living room wall.

 

[kyleking007]

you have a mushroom mounted in your living room? i gotta see some pics.

 

[sandtiger]

That is really cool, how long you guess it to be? The mushrooms are also cool, I enjoy looking at them when I see them in the wild but I know next to nothing about them so I don't collect/eat them.

 

[milkman407]

you have a mushroom mounted in your living room? i gotta see some pics.

i want picssss

 

[Opiate]

dun spose u eat the magic ones?? hehe great pics mate!

 

[fugupuff]

psilocybe sp. ?