Moss – March 16, 2008

Here is some moss. The variety of quite interesting.

 

Winter Color – December 2006

Moss on Trunk of TreeOriginally uploaded by Camp Naturalist.There’s always something interesting happening out in woods. Although I’d really like some snow

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Green Mushroom on Massasauga trail

Here is a sassafras twig.  The band on the left is a terminal scar that indicates where the end of the branch was last year.  You can measure how much growth there has been on branches from these points.

This is a hackberry tree.  This is an easy bark identify by its extremely bumpy bark.  Some call hackberry trees back scratcher trees.

Here is some red osier dogwoods.  If you see these you know you are near wetland soil.

Here are the stocks of black raspberries.  I love the chaulky white film that develops.  It’s interesting to me that these plants make an arch with roots on both ends.

Moss growing on an old stump. There’s so much going on here it’s like its own planet.

Shelf Mushrooms on an a stump