urbpan: (dandelion)
urbpan ([personal profile] urbpan) wrote2013-09-04 07:53 pm

3:00 snapshot #1382 plus bonus fungus on fungus action

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Any guesses as to what the tempera paint is for?


If you guessed "to get footprints from anaesthetized animals," you are correct.

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Here's a nice Bondarzewia berkeleyi that's been at the base of this tree for over a month. Rather than rot away to black mush like a lot of mushrooms, this polypore is resilient, and it was only this past weekend's heavy rains that encouraged this blue mold to colonize it.

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"Rot" becomes a thing of beauty, when you realize it is an active living process.

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