Showing posts with label Chlorociboria aeruginascens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chlorociboria aeruginascens. Show all posts

11.03.2015

Fairy Barf



thrilling 
how there are endless new things to discover


like:
Fairy puke
(a lichen)
now how can they call it that!
I feel concern, the fairies will get mad.


look at that turquoise stuff
it literally coats an entire tree stump
right over the moss and all
then these tiny pink apothecia grow



a wee island of mushrooms
found in a dark wet mossy canyon



beginning to dry out
and 
waves of gills become art


another new one to me
Chlorociboria aeruginascens
or 
green elfcup


it is such a joy to find new colors in the woods



as i continue learning about mushrooms
i decided to try a spore print
the black and orange fabric: a table cloth
on top of that is a sheet of plastic
i took a mushroom cap and laid it gill side facing down with a glass jar on top
next day i lifted it
and 
a spore print
wow
so beautiful and even 3-D

spore prints are one of the many ways to help identify which mushroom 
you have found

there won't be many more mushrooms this season 
as days are quite cool and nights freezing now

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