olihep's Journal

The species we found were a combination of mushrooms and puffballs of fungi. Two of the mushroom species we found I believe are the same species called Weeping Widow and are thin, short, dark brown with lighter colors on top. This species is food to larvae of certain flies and they tend to form in small groups in dead leaves or dirt. The other mushroom we found, Genus Hemimycena, is a white and short and thin mushroom. Genus Hemimycena contains about 50 species and they are found quite widespread. The puffballs were found on wet spots of nature, a muddy floor, and moist bark. They are formed when the fruiting body of fungi is disturbed and so clouds of dust-like spores form instead, creating the puffballs.

1. Seductive Entodon Moss, a type of moss. Mosses are land streptophyta plants, which are under the green plant category of plants. Green plants are under the diphoda category of eukaryotes.
2. One thing that all of my observations have in common is photosynthesis. They have adapted into using their surface area to capture as much light as possible which then supplies the process of photosynthesis with its required energy.
3. My moss observation is unique because moss doesn't have any roots. It sticks itself to surfaces like dirt, rocks, and trees and sucks up nutrients and water from around it using its highly absorbent surface.