For this week's iNaturalist walk, I walked along the Chestnut Hill Reservoir looking for fungi. In total, the walk took me about 40 minutes. It was pretty overcast and cloudy with the temp being around 57 degrees with a slight breeze. Since I was specifically looking for fungi this time, it was definitely a more focused walk. I found it really difficult to find different types of fungi because whenever I thought I came across some, it usually ended up being moss. I did end up finding some interesting plants and flowers along the reservoir near the water including pokeweeds, grape family, and asters and allies. The fungi that I was eventually able to locate was always near a tree or rock. The fungi that I found were False Turkey-Tail, Crowded Parchment, Mossy Maze Polypore, and Thomson's Rosette Lichen. To me, these fungi all looked fairly similar when I was taking pictures of them. However, when I came to submit them to iNaturalist, they all came up as different types of fungi. Thus, this brought me be back to our discussion earlier in class when we talked about deciphering different species. We discussed how it can be difficult to differentiate species just off of visual appearances. In some cases, it may take more analysis of the species to identify the differences. Overall, this walk proved to be interesting and somewhat difficult to specifically find fungi!
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