Fungi

I mainly stayed in the Reservoir close to the nearby Pine Tree Reserve. The ground was soaked but once I got there, the sky was only sprinkling rain. It was pretty chilly but I mainly blame the large body of water.

Anyway, I went on a mission to find different types of fungi. Fungi are generally hard to find because they live in shaded, moist places but I had difficulty because the forest floor sort of blends together after rain. Luckily, the ones I found came in different colors. I found blue-green lichen on trees and on rocks. I found a lonely porous brown one. I found dark brown ones that look like cow skins. They were pretty smooth and floppy for lack of a better explanation. I even found a group of three tan mushrooms with a inverted bowl-like cap. Those were going to be my last ones but as I was walking back, I noticed a very flat, white mushroom/toadstool shielded by a bunch of leaves.

Fungi look very different from each others since they are a broad taxa: a kingdom. Also, since I'm learning about Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya, I think it's interesting that Fungi are eukarya like humans. I suppose that is why their infections are harder to treat than bacterial ones. Or maybe it's because some of them are parasitic. Maybe one of the ones I observed were parasitic. After all, they grow near everything.

Posted on October 6, 2022 02:56 AM by itohan