365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Friday, December 3, 2021
Anything But Blah
Day 51: Whatever it was, it certainly wasn't Blah because Blah Coral (Ramaria acrisiccescens) has straight branches. I discovered a dozen or so very curly specimens of this fungus growing in the moss within a yard or so of an asphalt road in a small community of houses. I did not take a specimen, but its general morphology ruled out Ramaria and guided me toward the Clavulinas. It would require microscopic examination to completely eliminate the less common contenders, but I suspect that it is Clavulina coralloides, which is most frequently observed in the Pacific Northwest. I'l content myself with that for now. In any event, I thought they were quite pretty, a purely subjective and artistic appraisal as opposed to a scientific one. "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder," they say.
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