McClain and I walked to Houghton Garden from BC's main campus at around 11:10 am. It was raining before we got there, but it stopped pretty quickly. It was cloudy and humid. So the forest was quite damp. Since the theme of this week was fungi, we tried out best to find fungi. We saw a lot of lichens (which consists of a symbiotic relationship between fungi filaments and algae) on trees. I found two organisms that looked like different types of mold, but it was hard to figure out what exactly they were didn't have very distinctive forms. Later, we also found a few mushrooms on a tree on the way back to campus. (Strangely, we couldn't find any when we were in the forest but found some on a tree next to the sidewalk).
Side note/"Fun" Fact: McClain and I saw a dead rat decaying in the middle of Houghton Garden.
These are actually fruit with seeds in them, and they fall in the autumn season.
These are visually similar to shingle moss.
European lily of the valley with fruit
This particular fern had spores on the backside.
I'm not so sure about what kind of mole is on this tree. However, it looks like the tree has beech bark disease which is caused by insects and allows for fungi to infest the tree.
It's hard to tell what sort of species this is. However, I think it may be mold growing on a decomposing tree. (It may also be a type of slime mold, which is different from fungi)
This organism seems to be the larvae of a geometer moth.
This was at the base on a tree.