Day 20: Looking ever so much like they belong in a Chinese stiry-fry, Clavaria vermicularis is a fungus, not a vascular plant. I have been haunting the Model Forest trail at Pack Forest for the last several weeks, waiting for them to pop through the moss. There was no sign of them last week, but the recent rain encouraged their growth. It also seems to have brought out a few tiny, tiny beetles whose brownish shells make the Clavaria look even more like mung-bean sprouts. Also known as "Fairy Fingers," the coincidence of their fruiting around Hallowe'en-time makes me wonder why they weren't assigned the epithet, "Zombie Fingers" instead.
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