6.19.26 Bridgeport, Chicago, IL

 


Common Milkweed flower buds. The star-shaped one has bloomed

Dry Splitgill mushroom. Note how clumps of gills are pressed together. They do this to protect their spores from dry conditions, opening their gills after a rain

Chocolate Tube Slime Mold

These are the spore bodies. Despite being very similar to fungi, slime molds are various unrelated groups, all types of amoeba. While some are colonies of amoeboid cells, many like these are single giant amoeba cells. And these are only the reproductive


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