Just a little color

[Chuck]

Just a few shots from my garden. A pic of a couple of my peach trees. Some poison ivy climbing up an oak tree. A flame sumac bush and a fungal mat. Texas has just about everything except a lot of fall color

 

[ACSAPA]

I love the first photo. They're all beautiful but the first pic with the tree covered in red leaves is very striking. Thank you for sharing your photos.

 

[claudine]

You have a really pretty garden, Chuck! I love the red wine in the first picture on the right. It's lovely. What is this weird, orange thing in the last two pictures? Is it a mushroom?

 

[Chuck]

You have a really pretty garden, Chuck! I love the red wine in the first picture on the right. It's lovely. What is this weird, orange thing in the last two pictures? Is it a mushroom?

That red vine climbing up the tree is poison ivy. On the last two pics that is a distant cousin of a mushroom. It is a fungal spore mat. If you were to step on it it would basically disintegrate into millions of almost microscopic little round spheres. It is a very beneficial fungi in that it only feeds on and helps decompose dead organic matter

 

[claudine]

This is interesting! I've never seen a fugal spore mat like this in person. How big is it? It seems big in the pictures.

 

[Chuck]

This is interesting! I've never seen a fugal spore mat like this in person. How big is it? It seems big in the pictures.

That particular one is about the size of a tennis ball. Some are much larger if there is a lot of rain.

 

[helagumamela]

These pictures are really beautiful! Thank you for posting them, Chuck.