And more mushrooms. Mystery mushrooms; impossible to identify by sight alone. These are all growing on rotting (or very rotted) stumps, among Douglas-firs.
They look like fried eggs to me. Sunny side up. These are inside a disintegrating stump. |
The stump itself is interesting. Here, just beside the mushroom's hole, are tracks of some largish bark borer, long gone. |
Deep inside another small stump. The mushrooms look like soggy Turkey tail mushrooms. Very soggy, though, very soft. Blurry, even to the naked eye. |
There are several species that cluster like this, in the same habitat: rotting wood, especially Douglas-fir. |
Which came first, the mushroom that rotted the wood, or the rotted wood that fed the mushrooms?
Los hongos de la tercera foto estaban dentro de otro tronco bien podrido. Se parecen a los hongos comunes "cola de guajolote", pero remojados, aún en un dia de sol, suaves, borrosos a la vista.
Hay varios hongos que crecen en grupos apretados como los de la cuarta foto, todos en el mismo habitat: madera de coníferos podrida, especialmente en madera de abeto de Douglas.
El misterio del huevo y la gallina: ¿cuál vino primero; el hongo que pudrió la madera, o la madera podrida que alimentó al hongo?
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