I just found some mushrooms(toadstools) in my yard
that were new to me. I'm used to mushrooms with a
smooth rounded top and pleated spore gills underneath.
These have just the pleated gillsno tops. They
remind me of the neck ruffs worn back in historya
circle of pleats made of fine gauze.
The spores are only on the underside. The top looks
like a deeply grooved button...less than an inch in
width. Pale cream in color. In the middle, where the
pleats all come together, there's a cone-shaped
indentation that's yellow in the center.
On the other half of my subject, I recently had a
spider make a web on my front porch -- between the
railing and the roof, right at eye level. The web was
so fine that it was difficult to see. It was
perfectly made when I first saw it. As the days went
by, and we had some storms, the web was damaged, and
repaired. I got to watch it closely while it was
working. I was fascinated to watch how it used it's
back two legs to control the thread it was spinning
and to attach it to the foundation threads.
That's your biology and botany tidbits for today.
Alice in Oregon .. under gray, cloudy skies with a
wind storm on the way.
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