I've written about mushrooms before in this Blue Hills blog (see Mushroom), but I had to post this pair of white cap mushrooms. The mixture of dried-up pine needles and cones, autumn leaves, and mushroom creates the foundation for much of the ground cover in the pine-dominated parts of Blue Hills Reservation.
Unlike plants, mushrooms can't get energy from the sun because they lack chlorophyll. Instead, mushrooms live either symbiotically or parasitically with trees. Most of the mushrooms growing on the forest floor in Blue Hills — like this one on Wampatuck Hill — are coexisting with a nearby tree, specifically between the root ends of a... Continue Reading →
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