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9:39pm September 21, 2014
fatchance: Earthstar mushroom (Astraeus hygrometricus), on the Lower Oldham Trail in the Coconino National Forest, Arizona. This mushroom has an ectomycorrhizal association with the ponderosa pines it grows near, extracting nutrients from soil that benefit the trees, and obtaining carbohydrates from the pines’ roots to support its own growth. The mushroom is also a food source for Abert’s squirrels, which aid in distributing the mushrooms at the base of the pines in which they live, in a lovely and complicated web of mutual interaction.

fatchance:

Earthstar mushroom (Astraeus hygrometricus), on the Lower Oldham Trail in the Coconino National Forest, Arizona.

This mushroom has an ectomycorrhizal association with the ponderosa pines it grows near, extracting nutrients from soil that benefit the trees, and obtaining carbohydrates from the pines’ roots to support its own growth. The mushroom is also a food source for Abert’s squirrels, which aid in distributing the mushrooms at the base of the pines in which they live, in a lovely and complicated web of mutual interaction.

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  11. countrymouseme said: I found one in my garden last week! Here it is Spring. It was only about as big as a star Anise. I hadn’t seen one before so, as one does, unless one knows better, I squeezed it, a little…….
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