This blog may help people explore some of the 'hidden' issues involved in certain media treatments of environmental and scientific issues. Using personal digital images, it's also intended to emphasise seasonal (and other) changes in natural history of the Swansea (South Wales) area. The material should help participants in field-based modules and people generally interested in the natural world. The views are wholly those of the author.
Saturday, 20 November 2021
Fungi Marching On?
It's very obvious to even the most dopey Biologist, that the UK's warmer and wetter weather has generated a recent 'explosion' of fungal fruiting (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/nov/19/uk-warmer-wetter-weather-sparks-bumper-year-for-mushrooms). One normally associates Kew Gardens and The Royal Horticultural Society with plants. Their specialist fungal sections (Fungi are a different Kingdom) have been inundated, however, with rare and unusual species of mushrooms. Some fungi seem to have taken to fruiting in both Spring and Autumn. Others are increasing the range of habitats where they are found. It has even been suggested that gardeners might have more problems with species like the Honey fungus. The trees, whose roots are 'parasitised', may be 'stressed' by climatic changes, making them less resistant to Honey fungus. The trees may die.
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