The Garden Club

Saturday, February 04, 2006

Insane about Lichens!


Greetings All!
Today was a great day. Amongst the many discoveries the day brought upon me, I was most intrigued to learn by the lowly lichen. Did you know the lichen is a symbiotic relationship between a fungus and an algae. Now that is neat. Somehow these little buggers decided to evolve with each other, kinda like teamed up for the benefit of each, and look how good it turned out. I spent a good amount of my day exploring a tree stump in my back yard with my brother and Rachelle. What I thought to be a lichen at first was actually a tree fungi, somewhat similar to a mushroom...
...I also discovered some great facts about mushrooms today. Did you know back in the 1930's this guy by the name of Erowid R. Gordon Wasson, a vice president for J.P. Morgan, made a bunch of trips down to Mexico and became an amateur mushroom expert! Turns out he was from New Jersey too. Pretty cool. Then I did some yoga in my yoga room and that concluded the better part of one hour of a great day in the life of Garden Club.

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