Newton Campus Forest (Oct. 08, 2020)

Today, I walked through the little forests on Newton Campus. It was pretty sunny and a bit windy outside, but it was around 60° F. In one of the bigger forests, there was a nice path to walk through and the trees blocked the sunlight. I actually found a lot more fungi in Newton than I did in Houghton Garden last week. I found several mushrooms. One of the mushrooms I found was from the genus Cerioporus. A lot of them were hard to identify, but I found small mushrooms that looked like False Turkey-Tail mushrooms. I also found lichen, which is a symbiotic relationship between photosynthetic organisms and fungi. Some other interesting things that I found other than fungi are moss, stinging nettle (which actually stung my hand), oriental bittersweet (which looked like vines), burr seed, and hot pink Pokeberries.

Posted on October 8, 2020 08:20 PM by joannafolta