Fungi Field Trip Post

Tony Tilt

 

A small Bracket mushroom

 On our field trip we saw many different types of fungi and mushrooms. This one that i have a picture of is a type of bracket mushroom. It was estimated to be about 2 years old and it is a very hard and tough type of mushroom. It has poly pores and it has tiny pore tubes that hold spores. The mushroom decomposes the log and can grow as long as the log is still there.

A larger group of Bracket mushrooms

This is another picture of the same mushroom. These ones were estimated to be about 10 years old. These are also vary hard and you can tap on them and hear how hard they are. These ones will continue growing until the log is totally decomposed and then the mushrooms will just die.