We meet at the Ballpark in Gillies Bay at 10:00am
Last week we drove up to Bell Farm and then turned north and on down past the White Pine research area to park at the old Russ Creek Bridge. Hiking along the old logging roads heading north took us through areas of fairly mature forest with a dense enough canopy to limit the shrubby vegetation at ground level. This gives the forest floor a mainly moss cover over the ground surface and suitable conditions for many different kinds of fungi. While we continue to get some rain from time to time the mushrooms have been slow to appear so far and not all that many edible ones were collected again this week. Lunch was on Taylor Bluffs with its view over Malaspina Strait to the mainland mountains, north to Powell River and south to Nelson Island and Pender Harbour. Close to the lunch spot I photographed an odd species of fungus that looks like worms rising up from the ground. Clavaria purpurea, or Purple Fairy Club belongs to a group that includes the coral and club fungi.
JD.
Purple Fairy Club, Clavaria purpurea in a bed of mosses.
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