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

[urbpan]

Any guesses as to what the tempera paint is for?


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


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.


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

Comments

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

I did not guess that.

[urb-banal.livejournal.com]

I didn't guess that either...

I have a friend who in the early days said he was painting with rot and mold. I think he was really complaining about his basement apartment though. Artists sheesh! He's a painter, not a biologist. https://www.facebook.com/robert.farmer.5055

[deathling.livejournal.com]

Never woulda guessed!!