From an email by Jocie to the Botany Group on October 29. Click a photo to enlarge it.
Last Saturday we walked along the east side of the upper Puntledge River trails. We took a look at the bog, and walked as far as “Palm Beach” then looped back above the river. Despite the drought the Puntledge bog was looking quite moist and healthy!
A few highlights:
- Bog cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos)
- Sweet gale (Myrica gale): fruiting catkins
- River view
- Leathery grape fern detail (Sceptridium multifidum, formerly in the genus Botrychium) (Photo by Ruth Shapka)
- Dyer’s polypore (Phaeolus schweinitzii): a handsome brown suede!
- “The Unknown Polypore”: not able to ID this one…but amazing the way it grows right through and around twigs, leaves and needles.
- Fran showed us a bigleaf maple with blotches of speckled tarspot fungus (Rhytisma punctatum).
- Speckled tarspot closeup
