I think I’ve found an agarikon fungus on Gabriola. Please take a look at the photos and tell me what you think. I blogged about agarikon last month, and have been looking around for agarikon on Gabriola ever since. Who could resist looking for such a rare and interesting thing? I wondered if I’d find [...]
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Mother Jones magazine has a fascinating article about a fungus that grows on islands near Gabriola. (And who knows? Maybe it grows on Gabriola, too!) The article is Return of the Fungi: In the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest grows a bulbous, prehistoric-looking mushroom called agarikon. It prefers to colonize century-old Douglas fir trees, [...]
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