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Welcome to my web site !
Although I reside in Nova Scotia much of the information on this website is applicable to a
much broader geographic area that would include Newfoundland to the East,Ontario to the West,Illinois to the South and East
again to New Jersey.
This web site will allow me to share with you my passion for Mushrooms and Wildflowers. Over many
years I have discovered the seemingly endless species of Wildflowers and Mushrooms that are on offer in the woods of
Nova Scotia. Therefore each Spring is a time that I await in great anticipation as the snow melts and the earth
begins a new cycle of regeneration.
Then the hunt begins !
Slide Shows.I am also available to
present slide show talks on mushrooms or wildflowers or perhaps both,if requested. For more details please click here to e-mail me.
You can also preview DVD's of Mushrooms or Wildflowers and get a real taste of what grows in our
wonderful Nova Scotia woods by clicking here.
If you like what you see you can order a DVD at a very reasonable cost.
NEW
****Nova Scotia Mycological
Society****
announces it's third annual Mushroom Foray.
If you like being out in the woods and have an interest in the natural world,
what better way to spend a weekend than by attending the 2010 mushroom foray.
Don't know what a foray is?,click here or here to find out!
Click here for a clearer image of the poster.
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The Amazing Monotropa uniflora.
Some of the common names that this plant is known by are Indianpipe,Corpse plant, Ice plant and Bird’s nest, the latter
referring to the mass of tangled roots that this plant has.
I
have received several e-mails regarding this curiousity and you can be forgiven for thinking that it is a fungus,it is in
fact, a plant
Shining ghostly white in dark and damp woods this plant has totally lost its ability to photosynthesize and has a very
interesting relationship with fungi.
It is only recently that the full extent of Indian Pipes relationship with fungi has been discovered. For many years
it was believed that Indian pipe was a saprophyte existing on dead and decaying organic material. Actually, it’s real
relationship is not saprophytic but rather parasitic on a fungus that is in a mycorrhizal association with a tree.
In particular, Indian pipe seems to form exclusive relationships with mushrooms from the genus Russula.
To
learn more about saprophytic,parasitic and mycorrhizal relationships click here.
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