WiseAcre Gardens

Eastern Scarlet Elf Caps

WiseAcre — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:31:18 +0000

I didn’t expect to find these in the sugar bush this early. They’re out a full month earlier than last year. Here’s one good reason I hesitate to identify mushrooms. Last year I got it wrong when I identified these as Sarcoscypha coccinea. They looked identical to what my field guides had but the field [...]

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Fire Moss & Ice

WiseAcre — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:05:16 +0000

Tolerating pollution and broad pH ranges Fire Moss is fairly common.. If you see a patch of moss that has a red haze over it you can be pretty certain it’s Fire Moss. The stalks and spore capsules are red – brown and seen from a shallow side angle a patch of moss has a [...]

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Lichen, Orange Mock Oysters n Ice

WiseAcre — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:12:24 +0000

First up is a fleshy, leafy lichen on a bed of rock and moss. My best guess on an ID would be this is a Felt Lichen – Peltigera polydactylon. I’ve tamed it down some but it’s still a pretty wild guess. My only ‘research’ was looking at far too many photos trying to find [...]

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