WiseAcre Gardens

Pigskin Puffball

WiseAcre — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:27:24 +0000

Scleroderma citrinum This is a false puffball. The leathery skin is one clue. The black flesh on the inside is another. mature pigskin puffball – Scleroderma citrinum Poking a pigskin puffball is dangerous. The spores can bring tears to your eyes, make your nose run, cause post nasal drip and give you pink eye. They [...]

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Matchstick Lichen – Cladonia cristatella

WiseAcre — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 18:40:48 +0000

AKA: British Soldiers These were growing in what you might call a hostile environment. A sand and gravel bank created by glacial deposit doesn’t provide much to live on. About the only thing living on this landscape was moss and lichens. The moss was bone dry after a prolonged ‘drought’ and I could both hear [...]

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Garden Pond Frog Refuge

WiseAcre — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 03:36:55 +0000

The unusually dry summer must be driving the frogs to my garden pond. I’ve never seen so many frogs in the pond. I counted 43 in and around the pond and I know I missed more than a few. The stream that feeds my damned pond has been dry for weeks, normally it may dry [...]

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