fungus
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Oak Wilt
Damn it! I really wanted to start on a positive note, but the bad news just keeps coming. Oak wilt has been discovered in Brooklyn. This is a lethal fungal infection of oaks and other species, its spores spread by beetles. When I was in Green-Wood on Friday, I heard a chipper hard at work.…
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Oregonia
There’s your beautiful world, NW edition. Here’s Masha Gessen, an old hand at autocracy, on surviving Trumpism, very necessary reading now.
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Mushroom Monday
All the ‘shrooms had come out to play! Here’s some of the charismatic mega-fungi I spotted yesterday. This beast was 16″ across.An this was the largest gill-type mushroom I’ve ever seen at about 8″ across.in the same patch. There used to be a tree here.The mycelium don’t forget.I guess I finally solved this mystery. Puffballs.…
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Fruiting Bodies
The shapes of these old mushrooms — some kind of bolete? — fascinate. They are split and cracked; some look as if they have been nibbled by somebody; others bored into by something. Age makes character.
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Mushroom Monday
A warmer atmosphere has more moisture in it, meaning our winters are getting wetter. If it’s not cold, then that precipitation will be rain. And if there’s one thing that loves damp weather, it’s the fruiting bodies of fungi.
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Lichenworld II
More marvelous lichens from Nantucket.And amidst them, a tiny mushroom.