Mark Broeffle
Ms. Lawrence’s
class
9/25/12
The
mushrooms
Today I write to my fantastic followers,
telling them how not to be saying oh shroom on a mushroom foray. To start off
there are many types of mushrooms about 10,000 known and 250,000 over all
unknown. There are a few basic characteristics of mushrooms first being that it
has pores to reproduce, they have a cap which is the top many but not all have a
stalk depending if it’s a shelf mushroom, and all have either gills teeth or
pore underneath containing the spores. The life cycle of fungi starts out with
the roots of the fungi called mycelium which grows to the point where it can
then spring a mushroom filled with pores that can reproduce asexually. Once the
mushroom has grown out of the ground its spores will start to be released
allowing the species to reproduce. The returning link in the process is that the
spores fall to the ground and create new mycelium which creates more mushrooms.
Depending on the species the time that it would take to create a mushroom from
the mycelium could be a hundred years or a month to produce s fruit the mushroom.
When going on a foray You do not hurt the fungi when picking the mushroom due to the fact that the mushroom is only the fruit , like an apple on a apple tree. A clue where to find some great mushrooms are where there are many dead organisms to feed off of loggs are great for this. The best time to find mushrooms are 3 to 5 days after a rain during warm weather. once you gather your mushrooms you can take them home to eat once you identify them by using the spore print which depending on its color may help you to figure out what type it is. you can also use the shape, color, type of gills or teeth , and the type of stalk to help narrow down your search.
During my first foray I found 2 veery elaborate mushrooms. One very small the other a cluster of mushrooms that were fairly easy to identify. If I had the chance to redo the Assignment I would Spend more time on my blog post, I also would find more mushrooms so I would have an easier time finding out the mushrooms identity.
Mark, I really liked how you elaborated a lot in your post. You seemed to talk a lot more about the anatomy and hunting of the mushrooms than I did but I talked more about identification than you did. On suggestion that I have is, is to let me know how your group's foray went. Also you had a few capitalization mishaps.
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