It is perhaps a little hard to imagine that a fungi would make my top 15 favorite nature moments. And in truth, I have had dozens and dozens of favorite nature moments in 2017, but I had to start and stop somewhere.
In September, Ijams volunteer naturalist Nick Stahlman got us all excited about 'shrooms when he led a nature walk focused on the topic for our TN Naturalist@Ijams.
It was only a few days later that Ijams staffer Lauren noticed the odd mushrooms by the greenhouse. They turned out to be inky caps, an extremely appropriate name since within 24 hours each cap turned to a liquid black nothingness. Yes, talk about ephemeral!
Click: inky caps.
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