Day: August 23, 2014

Forest and Muskeg Trail and Whale Park

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Today was Connor’s 13th birthday and also the day my grandpa would have turned 97 (if I’m remembering correctly that he was born in 1917 Update: he was born in 1918, so he would have been 96). I wanted to follow up on some ground dogwood (Cornus sp) leaf mine observations, so we went out … Read more

Muskeg Earth Tongue (Geoglossaceae)

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I am not so good at identifying fungi, but earth tongues seem relatively easy to identify to family (Geoglossaceae) and maybe even genus, but after that things get quite a bit more challenging. These were seen in a patch of muskeg that is a little different then most of what I see around here. Perhaps … Read more