Fungi Nature Walk (Resevoir)
While the theme of this week's nature walk was fungi, fungi were not easy to come by. I started my walk around the reservoir around 10:45 am, and was greeted by cold and overcast weather. I half expected fungi to be everywhere due to the rain yesterday, however, this was not the case. The soil surrounding the reservoir is quite sandy and rocky, and quite dry. Thus, there was little to no observable fungi growing directly out of the ground. I had to venture off the path around the reservoir and into the surrounding trees to find any signs of fungi. I found one bracket fungi growing out of a fallen and rotting tree. Soon after, I found what I thought was fungal mold growing in the leaf litter. However, iNaturalist thinks that it was in fact a type of slime mold from the family Rhizopodaceae. I'm not sure if I agree with this, because the structure is quite stringy and looks to be composed of filaments, as hyphae in fungi defines it. Finally, well after my nature walk ended, I found a cluster of wine-cap stropharia growing near the base of a tree. While this was not a part of my nature walk, I decided to include it as it was certainly fungi, and I stumbled across it as a wild specimen only two hours after my nature walk.
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