Lachnum brevipilosum - with smoky bubbles
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Lachnum brevipilosum - with smoky bubbles
At long last I have my Nikon 105mm VR macro lens back from repair and so far I'm very pleased with it's performance.
This is one of my favourite fungi for close-up photography. This species grows on the underside of uprooted stumps and old decaying logs. I brought the host stump home yesterday from my walk with Maggy (my dog). The largest heads in this pic are ~6mm in diameter, although they can grow to 10mm or more.
Nikon D80, crop from stack of 10 frames using CombineZM
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This is one of my favourite fungi for close-up photography. This species grows on the underside of uprooted stumps and old decaying logs. I brought the host stump home yesterday from my walk with Maggy (my dog). The largest heads in this pic are ~6mm in diameter, although they can grow to 10mm or more.
Nikon D80, crop from stack of 10 frames using CombineZM
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Thanks Walt.
The term "smokey bubbles" is just a convenient adjective that I coined to describe their milky appearance - it's not scientifically significant.
Sometimes these bubbles are present and sometimes not and to be honest I don't know for sure what the bubbles are or indeed how persistent they are. Initially I thought they might be filled with spores waiting distribution by rain splash or similar. However another possibility is that they are guttation drops.
See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guttation
As to why...well I'm not at all certain about this but I believe that guttation (in certain fungi) serves to reduce the amount of water in the cells to prevent the cell wall rupturing during freezing weather.
...but the bottom line Walt, is that I don't really know !
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The term "smokey bubbles" is just a convenient adjective that I coined to describe their milky appearance - it's not scientifically significant.
Sometimes these bubbles are present and sometimes not and to be honest I don't know for sure what the bubbles are or indeed how persistent they are. Initially I thought they might be filled with spores waiting distribution by rain splash or similar. However another possibility is that they are guttation drops.
See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guttation
As to why...well I'm not at all certain about this but I believe that guttation (in certain fungi) serves to reduce the amount of water in the cells to prevent the cell wall rupturing during freezing weather.
...but the bottom line Walt, is that I don't really know !
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