Fungus

With all of the rain we've had around here, mushrooms and other fungus have begun to show up all over the forest.

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Mushroom on Tree
Bachelor's Grove Cemetery
September 14, 2006

This mushroom found an interesting spot to grow- out of a 1/8 inch woodpecker hole in a dead tree (a similar hold can be seen at the top left of the photo). At first I thought this was bracket fungus, but as I looked closer, I noticed a stem and the stem was coming out of a small hole in the tree.

Just think, a tiny spore blew up from the ground and landed right inside that tiny hole.

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Orange bracket fungus
Bachelor's Grove Settlement
September 9, 2006

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Mushroom
Bachelor's Grove Cemetery
September 3, 2006