Wayne's Word Index Noteworthy Plants Trivia Lemnaceae Biology 101 Botany Search Oregon 2010 Trip Page #18     Back To Index Of Pages       Back To Thumbnail Images   Addendum #2: Extra Images From Trip Seed cone of noble fir (Abies procera), a beautiful conifer that grows along the shore of Crater Lake. The scales of this cone are subtended by conspicuous pointed bracts. Longitudinal section through the cap of a mushroom with a porous (spongy) underside rather than gills. The spores are produced inside the numerous vertical microscopic tubules. This is probably a species of Boletus. Clark's Nutcracker, a subalpine bird that inhabitats the forest around Crater Lake. One if its favorite foods are seeds of the whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis). Gray Jay, a common and friendly bird throughout Crater Lake National Park. An obese golden-mantled ground squirrel at the edge of Crater Lake. This noisy grasshopper inhabits the barren, steep slopes of the rocky caldera around Crater Lake. Males fly into the air making a loud, cracking sound (crepitation), hopefully attracting a female. It belongs to the bandwinged grasshopper subfamily Oedipodinae. Back To Oregon Trip Thumbnail Images Return To WAYNE'S WORD Home Page All text material & images on these pages copyright © W.P. Armstrong