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Category Archives: Fungi

Spring Cup Fungi

Kamloops Naturalist Club Posted on April 23, 2018 by Gary HuntApril 22, 2018

Welcome to Mushroom Monday for April 23, 2018

The cup fungi are a wide-spread and variable group of cup-shaped mushrooms. The most conspicuous ones are often colourful. There are hundreds of species with many being hard to identify and requiring microscopic features to determine species. No guide book attempts to cover them all so be happy if you can arrive at a genus name. Spores are produced on the inner surface of the cup and are often released in a visible cloud-like puff. Many are found on burned ground and are called “pyrophilus” species.

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Desert Puffballs on Stalks

Kamloops Naturalist Club Posted on April 16, 2018 by Gary HuntApril 17, 2018

Welcome to Mushroom Monday for April 16, 2018 Puffballs are a specialized group of mushrooms that produce spheroidal fruitbodies. They belong to a group called Gastromycetes meaning “stomach fungi.” In this group, spores are produced internally in sacs that are … Continue reading →

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Sagebrush Galls

Kamloops Naturalist Club Posted on April 11, 2018 by Vanessa RobinsonApril 14, 2018

  If you have walked around in the grasslands, you may have noticed strange growths on the sagebrush. These growths, called galls, form when some organism – usually an insect – develops within the plant’s tissues. … Continue reading →

Posted in Flora, Fungi | Tagged Artemisia, Artimisia, Ceciomyiidae, Egg, Gall, Good, Larva, Parasite, Parasitoid wasp, Sagebrush, Tridentata, Wasp | 2 Replies

Snowbank Mushrooms

Kamloops Naturalist Club Posted on April 9, 2018 by Gary HuntApril 9, 2018

Welcome to Mushroom Monday for April 9, 2018

Posted by Gary Hunt

Snowbank fungi are species that fruit adjacent to melting show. They are represented by a diverse array of species found in forested regions, primarily higher elevations, of western North America ranging from New Mexico to Canada. They may be saprophytic (decomposers), symbiotic (mycorrhizal) or even pathogenic.

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Wildflowers That Subvert Fungi to Steal Food

Kamloops Naturalist Club Posted on April 2, 2018 by Gary HuntApril 2, 2018

Welcome to Mushroom Monday for April 2, 2018

Posted by Gary Hunt

And welcome also to the new website of the Kamloops Naturalist Club. I hope you return often to see the wide variety of nature-related activities our members are involved in.

There is a group of wildflowers that have learned how to cheat photosynthesis. This allows them to simplify physical structure and eliminate the work of making chlorophyll and their own food. It confers a significant survival advantage in low-light forest conditions.

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It Is Time to Start Looking for Lightning Mushrooms

Kamloops Naturalist Club Posted on March 26, 2018 by Gary HuntApril 1, 2018

The majority of spring mushrooms in our area are small. It is in fall that we get our display of the larger, more noticeable species. An exception to our diminutive spring species is Calocybe gambosa, known as the lightning mushroom. They are … Continue reading →

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