September 8, 2009
At last, two actual slime molds! As hard as I searched, the best I could find were plenty of tiny white-spored objects (fungi) erupting from the wood. I learned slime mold spores tend not to be white. : ( But local slime mold expert Mary Jane Howell’s sharp eyes picked out two (not so slimy) [...]
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August 4, 2009
You may think that if you’ve seen one lichen, you’ve seen them all. Oh, so not so. Yes, many of them do resemble your common leathery grey-green patches plastered on trees like bark band-aids. But there are so many, many more. If you look around, they are everywhere, and they are gorgeous. Today I bring [...]
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