Fungi-focused nature walk at Boston College
I went on a nature walk through the Pine Tree Preserve and I also made some observations on my way as I walked through the chestnut hill reservoir surroundings. I did the walk in the evening time. But the sky was unexpectedly still lit at that time. The weather was pretty chilly, as it has been for a few days now. And it was slightly raining (it was not too heavy, just a light pouring of rain).
I was initially anxious about getting observations for fungi, because I had not previously seen that many fungi on campus or around campus before. So I was not sure if I would get enough observations of fungi. But to my surprise, I got a lot of observations of fungi during this nature walk. I especially observed a lot of fungi in the Pine Tree Reserve. I think I made observations of different numbers of fungi that were the same species because they appeared the same.
One of the unique fungi that I observed was a mushroom that was red in color. I believe that this was the first mushroom that I observed during this walk. And it was unique in my observations during this walk because most of the other fungi I observed were cream to brown in color.
I mostly observed that the fungi were under leaves and grass. So maybe there is an ecological benefit for the fungi to be close to these grasses. And also the green fungus that I observed was almost always on trees or tree branches. So this may be because this fungus and the trees have a codependent relationship with each other or it might just be a mutually beneficial relationship for the fungus and the tree.