More fungi and ‘shrooms are bursting onto the autumn scene to take advantage of some decaying stumps of dead trees that had to be removed. While they may seem like opportunists of decay, they actually benefit the food chain by releasing nutrients locked in the wood back into the environment. This befits living plants andContinue reading “Fine Fungal Friends”
Tag Archives: coal
It’s Among-us
It’s several, not just one fun-gi! Nerd Note: Thanks to fungi and other wood-eating organisms, carbon is recycled back into the biosphere rather than accumulating as piles of wood and cellulose and eventually being buried and turned in to coal as happened during the Carboniferous Period approximately 360 to 300 million years ago. At theContinue reading “It’s Among-us”
Eskildoodle Photos and Feelings 