Bracket fungus
Bracket fungus
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Bracket fungus
Michael Reese Much FRMS EMS Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA
Nice picture.
But it looks as if you have turned it upside-down?
Troels
But it looks as if you have turned it upside-down?
Troels
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Bracket fungus
Thanks. No, actually that is the way it grew. This was on the end of a log at the bottom of my firewood pile which had been undisturbed for over a year. This is the natural orientation. Maybe when it took hold before the log was relocated, it started in the other direction and grew up this way with the gills up.
Mike
Mike
Michael Reese Much FRMS EMS Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA
Take any rule in nature and sooner or later you will meet a strange plant or animal triyng to go against it.
Normal consol shaped fungi protects their spores against rain with a roof as cover because the spores must be dry to be able to be transported by the wind. But this species seems to have adapted to spreading it spores with the rain water?
Even then it would not be the first time in natural history. Nest fungi (in Europe the genus Cyathus) develop bowl shaped bodies with spherical assemblies of spores (peridiola). When a rain drop hits the tiny bowl the peridiolae are thrown far away from the mother fungus.
Normal consol shaped fungi protects their spores against rain with a roof as cover because the spores must be dry to be able to be transported by the wind. But this species seems to have adapted to spreading it spores with the rain water?
Even then it would not be the first time in natural history. Nest fungi (in Europe the genus Cyathus) develop bowl shaped bodies with spherical assemblies of spores (peridiola). When a rain drop hits the tiny bowl the peridiolae are thrown far away from the mother fungus.
Troels Holm, biologist (retired), environmentalist, amateur photographer.
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