From an email by Jocie to the Botany Group on February 19. Click a photo to enlarge it.
We had a good walk around Roy Morrison Nature Park on February 13, seeing many wonderful things. We focused mainly on winter fungi, but we took a look at a few mosses and other things. We even saw a wooly bear caterpillar!
We saw most of the fungi from my last posts “Winter fungi review, part 1” and “Winter fungi (and a slime mould), part 2” so I won’t repeat those here.
Here are a few highlights. Thanks to VĂ©ronique and Shirley for submitting photos.
- Botanists on a bridge!
- Western wild ginger (Asarum caudatum). The evergreen heart-shaped leaves are distinctive.
- Siberian miner’s lettuce (Claytonia sibirica). Lots of leaves showing in crevices at the base of trees.
- A lovely vase-shaped Clitocybe of some sort, growing on a decaying fallen tree (a cottonwood, we think).
- Orange jelly (Dacrymyces chrysospermus). Common on conifers.
- Artist conk (Ganoderma applanatum).
- Small staghorn (Calocera cornea).
- Plume moss (Dendroalsia abietina).
- Hanging moss (Antitrichia curtipendula).
- Magnificent moss (Plagiomnium venustum). On bigleaf maple trunks; multiple sporophytes.
- Banded wooly bear – larval form of Isabella tiger moth (Pyrrharctia isabella).