This bird comes by everyday in the morning and the evening to peck on the train gate. Noisy woodpecker!
This likes the old roads where it is seepy and the elvation is higher.
Pretty sure I got this right. I know for sure I found Blasia on this road last year. There was so little here this year that I did not collect a sample.
Pretty sure I got this right. I know for sure I found Blasia on this road last year. There was so little here this year that I did not collect a sample.
Not so rare if you know where to look. I've found it in 4 different places in the Southeast Olympics now. All were at higher elevations on dry exposed unused logging raods. Sadly, a lot of this moss has been destroyed by road decommissioning.
I expect it was everyone at elevation on this road before they decommissioned it.
They sit still long enough for good macro shots when they are on ice.
In the field I thought the nude stems might be sporophytes so it caught my eye.
A hornwort with no horns. It was in the flower bed of the fire station. It should be making horns soon. I could see the buds forming.
I think it's Antheceros fusiforma
This was growing on a rotten log next to a trail at about 1,000 feet in a river valley. The bright color caught my eye. I thought it was a moss until I looked at it through my hand lens, then I knew it was a liverwort.
It took me the better part of a day to key it out, but I got there in the end.
I did not realize that this moss comes down to near sea level in our area.
This is getting moved back to Homalothecium in 2013.
Growing on rotten wood in a seepy area. I used David Wagner's CD to key this out. I'm pretty sure I got it right.
Found on rotting wood in a moist wooded area. Keyed out with David Wagner's liverwort CD
Mostly two oil body per leaf cell. Reddish plicate perianth. This was growing in a good sized mat the middle of a trail. This liverwort is tiny and I forgot toe measure it.
At first I thought these were pin lichens, but they are so big! Then I did some more research and happened upon Metatrichia floriformis. I suspect these are slime mold spores!
There were dozens of these on the same log, they shared the log with a basidiomycete lichen.
This log was near a river.
At 30x I could see what looked like liverwort elators flexing and moving. I need to go back and get more of this so I can look at it again.
I was so happy that this did not take me to the Bryum key.
This was on a hazelnut leaf. The spores are oval, and non-septate. These Cliestothecia overwinter on leaf litter and then open up to produce spores in the spring.
I finally found this moss. It was on a big leaf maple branch that had fallen down. It was in a great big fluffy mat. Pretty stuff.
Nectria is a genus of Ascomycete fungi. They are usually harmless saprotrophs on decaying wood but some species also occur as parasites of fruit trees. Some species are significant pests causing diseases such as apple canker, Nectria twig blight.
Spore up to 1 septate.
Apothecia KOH + dark red
Growing on an apple tree in Maple Grove. MG004
I grew this amazing mold by accident. This is on red cabbage.
This algea magnified x1000 was found in an Evernia prunastri lichen. Trebouxia sp is the main photobiont for evernaia and most other algal lichens.
