urbpan: (dandelion)
2015-01-20 07:36 pm

More winter mushrooming

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"Bootlaces" on a dead tree. These are the mycelial threads that the parasitic fungus Armillaria sp. uses to spread from area to area, colonizing new hosts. Armillaria is a complex of fungi species collectively called "honey mushrooms" for their edible yellow-brown mushrooms.
urbpan: (dandelion)
2013-09-02 10:16 am

Rainy weekend wildlife

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A sudden change in weather, from drought conditions to thunder and downpours, is bound to make some different living things pop up here and there. Here is a fresh fruiting body of Polyporus alveolaris, the hex-polypore, on a twig of shagbark hickory.
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