October 5th Fungi Nature Walk
This week, I went back to Houghton Garden because I liked it so much last week, so I wanted to check it out again. It was a very rainy and overcast today, but that is my favorite kind of weather which made me happy. It was around 60 degrees F out, so it was a bit chilly but not too cold. My nature walk this week was really nice because a lot of the leaves had started to change color in the Garden which was beautiful. I was able to observe four different fungi on my nature walk this week. Two of which were growing on dead tree branches, one of which was a mushroom, and one of which was Orange Jelly on a mossy rock. It was really cool to observe the fungi close up and to be on the lookout for it in general. When trying to identify the species in my pictures today, I was struggling to differentiate different species based off looks which made me think about morphological speciation from class and also about the importance of knowing biological and phylogenic information to confidently identifying a species. Since fungi are eukaryotes, I was also thinking about the similarities and differences between bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes during my nature walk which made me think about the biochemical processes going on within the eukaryotic fungi cells.
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