On Baikie Island the restoration project continues. Along the water's edge, someone has been cutting down little alders; evergreen saplings in black plastic pots wait to be planted in in the newly-cleared space. On one of the downed alders, I found this crop of yellowish, flattish mushrooms covering most of its underside. (I rolled it over to get this photo.) I couldn't find any on any of the other trees, standing or cut, in the vicinity.
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| Alder trunk with mushrooms, sapsucker pits, and a pale green dust lichen. |
And why, I asked it, did you pick this one tree and ignore all the rest? No answer was forthcoming.
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El proyecto de restauración de la isla Baikie sigue. Al borde de la laguna, han estado cortando los pequeños alisos; en macetas de plástico, arbolitos de hoja perenne esperan a que los siembren en el espacio recién preparado. En uno de los alisos tumbados, encontré estos hongos amarillentos, algo planos, que cubrían casi todo el lado junto al suelo.
Busqué entre los árboles alrededor, en pie o tumbados, y no hubo más que este árbol con hongos.
Foto: el hongo, el tronco del aliso con pocitos hechos por chupasavias, y un poco de liquen de polvo, de un verde claro.
Y ¿porqué — le pregunté — escogiste este árbol y no tocaste ningún otro? No me respondió.
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