Nature Walk - Fungi 9/29/24
I walked around the reservoir, then continued to walk through brookline. It was like 7am so it was pretty chilly, the temperature was 55 degrees. The sky was very cloudy and gray but nevertheless, it was beautiful day. Around the res, I saw a lot of trees, many of them with lichens. I took some picture of these, but not of every one I came across because they all look similar and it seemed redundant. Something that can be noted as a difference is the difference in color. Some lichen were white, others were very green, and some in between. I am not sure what this means: if they are different types of lichen or the same species in different stages of development. That was pretty much al I saw around the res but as I continued walking by brookline, I came across more interesting sights. For example, a white/brown loofah-looking thing caught my attention, so I took a picture of it hoping it was a fungi. Effectively so, inaturalist preliminarily ID’d it as a grifola, also known as hen-of-the-woods. Later on, I came across two mushrooms. I am guessing they are different species just by looking at the shape of the top (one is round and the other is flat) but I’m waiting on a better ID to be sure. From what we learned in class, I’m guessing that some of these mushrooms have have grown from fecal material (probably from dogs) since mushrooms are decomposers. We haven’t really talked about about fungi in class but we have talked about microbes being decomposers and there was a diagram were the microbial category overlapped to the fungi category indicating that some fungi are microbes.
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