Aug. 24th, 2014

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My attention was called to the ceiling of a gift shop, where it was reported that a mushroom was growing.

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Close up I could see that it was gilled--and beautiful in its way.

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My guess is that it is Pleurotus species--the group of fungi that produce oyster mushrooms. These fungi are "weedy," meaning that they can colonize a variety of substrates, and do so aggressively, often before other organisms can. I posted these photos on mushroom identification facebook groups, and no one contradicted my identification (except one person who suggested a polypore--clearly false) but there was a lively discussion of what weird man-made objects people have found oyster mushrooms on.
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This is my "map my walk" map of changing the sticky sleeves on the stable fly traps at Stone Zoo.
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Grass bursting through an asphalt sidewalk, Dedham Massachusetts.
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This is the "Zebra Entrance" to Franklin Park Zoo. In the next few years this will be totally redesigned.

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