Urban Nature Pictures 9/22

[urbpan]

Alexis amid the sunflowers and phragmites. I took a very similar picture almost exactly one year ago.


This polypore was growing on the dirt nearby. Hidden in the soil is the wood of a long-dead tree. If the tree was a broadleaf, this mushroom is Ganoderma lucidum; if it was a conifer, the mushroom is G. tsugae.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Could those giant wild sunflowers be jerusalem artichokes? I have some Jerusalem artichokes in my yard; they do grow to be like ten feet tall, and the flowers look exactly like that.

(Not the flowers in this icon... the ones in this icon are Canada lilies, but I don't have very many wildflower icons, so this'll have to do...)

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think that's likely. I hadn't bothered to try to speciate our various Helianthus, but considering I have 10 more of my 50 urban species to go for the year maybe I should.