{"id":700,"date":"2014-09-23T21:10:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T01:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mainstreetlandscape.com\/blog\/?p=700"},"modified":"2014-09-25T10:00:06","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T14:00:06","slug":"mushrooms-galore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mainstreetlandscape.com\/blog\/mushrooms-galore\/","title":{"rendered":"Mushrooms Galore"},"content":{"rendered":"

This has certainly been the season for mushrooms.\u00a0 I think most of us think that mushrooms are not attractive in the landscape.\u00a0 It’s certainly not our goal as designers to grow mushrooms for our clients, but there are some interesting as well as colorful mushrooms appearing this year.\u00a0 Take a look at this mushroom called American Caesar’s mushroom.\"american<\/a><\/p>\n

Most mushrooms are temporary.\u00a0 They appear sporadically through most of the season depending upon environmental conditions. The temperatures and amount of rain fall this summer have provided the right conditions for mushrooms.\u00a0 These mushrooms are called Jack-o-lantern mushrooms. They grow in clusters on wood and are bright orange in color.<\/p>\n

\"orange<\/a>A mushroom is the fruiting body of a fungus.\u00a0 Usually the main body of the fungus is underground, so unseen.\u00a0 The fruiting body is the reproductive structure of the fungus. This mushroom is called a Wood Bluet.<\/p>\n\"Blue<\/a>In dry years, a fungus may not produce any mushrooms. This mushroom is called Elegant stink horn. It gives off a strong unpleasant odor.\u00a0 It has another inappropriate name, which I’m not going to mention in this post.\"mushrooms,<\/a>\n

The greatest abundance of mushrooms occur in association with trees.<\/p>\n

\"mushroom<\/a>The following picture shows a fairy ring.<\/p>\n

\"mushroom<\/a>Without going into too much detail, fairy rings occur when the fungus which is underground is growing at the same rate in all directions. This sometimes produces a circle of mushrooms on the outer fringes.<\/p>\n

This is a picture of a very unusual and pretty mushroom called an Earth star mushroom.<\/p>\n

\"earth<\/a>Here are some other pictures of mushrooms.\u00a0 The next two are called Common earthball mushrooms.<\/p>\n

\"common<\/a>\"common<\/a>Such variety and colors.<\/p>\n

The following, we haven’t been able to identify.\u00a0 If you know it, comment on this blog.<\/p>\n

\"unknown<\/a>And, how could I forget the following called Dead man’s fingers.<\/p>\n

\"mushrooms\"<\/a>Look closely and you will see the black mushrooms….not a particularly nice looking mushroom.<\/p>\n

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This has certainly been the season for mushrooms.\u00a0 I think most of us think that mushrooms are not attractive in the landscape.\u00a0 It’s certainly not our goal as designers to grow mushrooms for our clients, but there are some interesting as well as colorful mushrooms appearing this year.\u00a0 Take a look at this mushroom called… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,4,11,1],"tags":[26,34,27,24,18,23,58,43,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstreetlandscape.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstreetlandscape.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstreetlandscape.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstreetlandscape.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstreetlandscape.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstreetlandscape.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":723,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstreetlandscape.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions\/723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstreetlandscape.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstreetlandscape.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstreetlandscape.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}