Fun Fungus Walk!

Throughout the last week our science class has been learning about Fungi.  So we would learn and understand the material better, our teacher took us on a walk in the park. On this walk we looked for the numerous types of fungi we have learned about. The five phyla are water molds(Oomycota), common molds (Zygomycota), Sac fungi (Ascomycota), club fungi (Basidiomycota) and Imperfect fungi (Deuteromycota). Luckily on our walk we found tons of mushrooms, and other molds just on the trails! Probably because our moist environment is favorable for many molds. We also found several lichens belonging to the different forms foliose (leaf like), Fruticose (shrubby), Crustose (crust like.) Also my partner and I found some captivating leaves with some sort of rust caused by fungi. Though we weren't able to find everything on the fungus hunt we did get to see quite a few intriguing things like the different symbiotic lichens, rusts and shelf mushrooms.

A rust caused by some sort of fungi

Foliose lichen

A Crustose Lichen has made its home on a shady tree base

shelf Fungi growing on wood

some basidiomycota fungi growing 

a close up of mushrooms growing on a log

in this picture the hyphae and mycelium weren't visible

A shelf fungi part of the club fungi phylum