Friday 15th July 2011
I might have mentioned before that I find fungi fascinating! Many plants form intricate symbiotic relationships with those types found in the earth, of course the mushrooms that we see are just the fruiting bodies and the most important buisiness happens underground. They are, if you like, the recyclers of nature, feeding off dead and dying material. Some orchids in particular, have such tiny seeds that they don't contain enough food to produce leaves after germination, so they take it from fungus roots, then when they have enough leaves to photosynthesise and produce food of their own they in turn feed the fungi. If only we humans could learn the lessons that nature trys to teach us, maybe the world wouldn't be in such a mess.
Todays discoveries ; sulphur tuft, poisonous with a bitter quinine like taste and black bulgar, not toxic but like eating rubber!
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world"
Anne Frank
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