Around Durrell

[urbpan]

One morning before classes I walked around outside the zoo. The first thing I encountered was this large (8 inch diameter cap) mushroom. Possibly Agaricus sp.




The symbol of Durrell Wildlife is the dodo, and its image appears in many places around the facility.


Brave cyclists on the road outside the zoo, entering one of the tree tunnels. Note the crop fields elevated on the right.


Potato fields in the background. Chamomile (or stinking chamomile) in the front.


The first bus arrives at 7:45! (My dad took this bus down to the ferries.)




Out in the parking lot there are a lot of options for donating old stuff and recyclables. The monkey pictured on the barrels is the black lion tamarin.


A fallen branch had some new-to-me lichen on it.

Comments

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

oh i love Agaricus! it is one of my favorite genera.

did you take the time to see if it was one of the ones that smell like almonds, or one of the ones that smell like library paste?

if this were the west coast i'd guess it was Agaricus augustus, but i've never really gotten the hang of east-coast mushroom seasons :(

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I didn't smell it.

This was on the Isle of Jersey, so I'm completely lost on what it might have been. It looked like A. bisporus to me, frankly.

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

eight inches is really huge for A bisporus. and it's a hard genus to get to species anyway; arora divides it into six "groups", of which scent is one of the notable features.