Day 283: "Molly Eye-Winker." Isn't that the most charming name you can imagine for a fungus with eyelashes? According to my sources, Scutellinia scutellata isn't uncommon, but I had never seen it until a year or two ago during a Team Biota foray, and not again since that time until I found it on the Packwood Lake trail. There were several dozen of them, as a matter of fact, growing on the end of a decaying log. These were the most developed, although they haven't opened out sufficiently to display the eyelash effect to best advantage. The next time you see little orange dots on rock or rotting wood, bend over and take a closer look. Molly may be flirting with you!
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