Showing posts with label Mushrooms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mushrooms. Show all posts
Sunday, September 20, 2020
Saturday, September 19, 2020
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Saturday, September 12, 2020
Saturday, August 29, 2020
Tuesday, August 25, 2020
Sunday, August 23, 2020
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Tuesday, June 2, 2020
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Friday, May 1, 2020
NATURE JOURNAL A Tale of 2 Mustards, A Box O'Blue, A Waxing Moon
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Monday, April 13, 2020
NATURE JOURNAL Getting "Twiggy" with It! I am not afraid of fungus...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2020
NATURE JOURNAL Turkey Tail Tales, Poring over Pores, Mushroom Mash-up
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Monday, March 30, 2020
NATURE JOURNAL Spores and Pores, That's No Turkey Tail! Red Maple Trees and Canada Mayflowers
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Friday, May 3, 2019
#MyCanterburyCoddiwomples #The100DayProject Day #31/100 Hexagonal-Pored Polypore
Today I found a polypore mushroom with strange pores so I looked in the guide to find that it is a hexagonal-pored polypore mushroom, perhaps Neofavolus alveolaris, also called Polyporus alveolaris, or Polyporus mori. I like Polyporus mori because it's the easiest to remember. You may call it anything that you wish.
Some Zoomy images:
Cap edge.
Hexagonal pores.
The smaller polypore.
I have to include a bit of interesting lichen next to the polypore.
Ink and watercolor in my Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media Journal.
What's a Zoomy?
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
#SketchbookRevival2019 #TamaraLaporte Phantasmagorical Reality: Mushrooms
Study nature closely and you will discover forms that are more fantastic than anything you may imagine or create!
One example is the morphology of fungi. I created an entire village out of the shapes of mushrooms that I found in a guide book.
The village was inspired by a lesson on Sketchbook Revival 2019 with Tamara Laporte. Of course, her lesson did not include mushrooms. My Nature Journaling influences my creativity and my creativity influences my Nature Journaling!
Close-ups of sketch before watercolors added.
Nature Journaling about mushroom forms. My fellow Master Naturalist and Journalist, Carol, is my inspiration for putting so many little 'shrooms on one page.
Ink and watercolor in my Jane Davenport Canvas Journal.
Sunday, April 28, 2019
#MyCanterburyCoddiwomples #The100DayProject Day #26 Lichen, Lichen, Not a Lichen
Lichen, Lichen, Not a Lichen
The little red raspberries on this twig are probably a Nectria fungus commonly known as Beech Bark Disease.
Ink and watercolor in my Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media Journal.
Friday, April 26, 2019
#MyCanterburyCoddiwomples #The100DayProject Day #23 The Amber Jelly Roll
I found a twig with a bit of "jelly" on it! Perhaps it is the Amber Jelly Roll fungus, Exidia recisa.
The gelatinous globules are attached to the twig at a single point.
It may be flattened when dry but it will fill out again when wet. One side is smooth.
The other side has minute scales.
I'm enjoying taking these close up shots with my new Canon PowerShot SX530 HS
Ink and watercolor in my Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media Journal.
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
#MyCanterburyCoddiwomples #The100DayProject Day #18 Free Gills!
Back to the mushroom! I tried but couldn't identify yesterday's 'shroom, so I went back to check on it today. Yesterday I thought the mushroom didn't have gills, so I tried to find it under "bolete". Today the mushroom had gills! I looked up some info on gill development which I recorded on the page. I also learned that there are different kinds of gills. This mushroom has "free gills" which don't quite reach the stem. I still don't know what species this is but I have learned something new.
Learning to identify mushrooms (or moss, or liverworts, or lichen, or anything else Sporo-licious) means learning what details to look for! One thing that I can recognize are gills, and well, I didn't see any so I thought to look under Bolete to see if I could identify this little guy. No luck. I went back to the log take a second look and found that some of the mushrooms now had gills.
I looked for information on gill development and learned that there is a veil that covers the gills in an early stage.
The veil stretches and then tears.
I torn a bit off to see the gills underneath.
I established that this species has gills. Then I learned that there are different types of gills! There are gills that attach to the stem or run down the stem, there are "free" gills that seem to go take a last minute turn up into the cap and don't go all the way to the stem, well, there's probably more kinds to learn as well.
Above close-ups taken with Zoomy.
Ink and watercolor in my Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media Journal.
What's a Zoomy?
#MyCanterburyCoddiwomples #The100DayProject Day #17 Early Spring Mushrooms
These early spring mushrooms just popped up! I found them on a mossy log in the woods.
Ink and watercolor in my Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media Journal.
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