A mushroom
that was actually
crying drops of liquid
Seen by Don and Mich
on trail to McNeil Point 8/13/15
at about 4000 feet
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The forest was very very dry
but his mushroom was
actually dripping liquid
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Photo courtesy of Mich
The abvove picture
shows a young
Red-Belt Conk
(Fomitopsis pinicola)
This is what a Red-Belt Conk
Normally looks like
Picture from Wikipedia
This is a somewhat
younger Red-Belt Conk
Picture by Jan Thornhill
at Web site Weid and Wonderful Wild Mushrooms
Water movement in plants
The water in these pictures is due to
a process called Guttation
Transpiration:
This is essentially a suction process.
Water is pulled up from the roots or mycellium and goes out through pores
Ninety percent of the moisture that a plant takes in goes out of the plant by this provess
You can not visably see water leaving a plant by this process
Guttation:
A pushing rather than a pulling process
Excess moisture in the roots or mycellium acutally forces water to be exuded
Not as common as transpiration.
Guttation occurs in many type of plants
This is a strawberry leaf
Three stages of Red-Belt Conk
Fomitopsis Pinicola –
Red-belted polypore
A woody perennial
The undersurface -- cream colored does not bruise brown.
Ganoderma brownie
Artist conk
similar, but not as dark.
pores bruise brown, as opposed to yellow-buff
Ganoderma brownie
or Ganoderma applanatium
Artist conk
One can draw on the pore surface
as you see here
Picture from Wikipedia
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