It’s always a treat to come across turkey tail mushrooms growing on tree stumps.
I came across two clusters this week; this is the most colourful one, even though it is only various browns edged with white.
With the scientific name of Trametes versicolor, this is one of the most studied of the fungi. It is saprotropic, which means it decomposes what it grows on–wood. Turkey tail is well known in traditional health practices in China and Japan, because it benefits our immune health.
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Is this a London planetree (Platanus x hispanica) that’s been pollarded? It could be. There are two clues: (1) London planetrees are often pollarded; (2) the anti-vermin wrap of metal around the trunk reminds me of the London planetrees in the heronry in Stanley Park that are wrapped to protect the young Great Blue Herons while they are still in their nests.
And yet, the trunk doesn’t look like it is London planetree. I will have to wait until the tree grows leaves to know what it is.
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It’s salt! It’s snow! It’s blossoms!
Ornamental plum blossoms in fact.
Here we are in the last week of February and the plum trees on Vancouver’s streets are already speckled with blossoms.
Our winter has been mild. Of the 30,000 members of the Prunus genus on our streets, 11,000 of them are purple plums with various common names such as the Pissard plum and the night purple leaf plum. The majority of these trees are Prunus cerasifera ‘Pissardii’
Marina Princz is the librarian at VanDusen’s Yosef Wosk Library & Resource Centre at VanDusen Botanical Garden Library. On Thursday, October 19, she will be presenting information about the treasures at and the history of this botanical library.
Members of Nature Vancouver will receive the link to the 7:30 p.m. Zoom presentation in the weekly email. Join us at 7:20 p.m. Non-members are also welcome and should email enews@naturevancouver.ca well in advance to register for the link.
Nina
I’m looking forward to my book signing of Legacy of Trees at the frame shop, Lost Lagoon Store, in the West End Mall tomorrow: 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.; and 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Perhaps I’ll see you there!
My two ebooks Trust the Mystery: Raising Self-Awareness through Questions, Quotes, and Quantum Wisdom (second edition) and Spiraling Self-Awareness: Personal Mission Revealed in 27 Days through Pythagorean Numerology’s Partnership with the 9-Chakra System are now available and they are free.
Unfortunately, Amazon says that they are only available in the US. I’m working on that, because I want them available in Canada and throughout the world.
So, if you live in the US, just google “kindle books” and then search with “shoroplova”; both Trust the Mystery (second edition) and Spiraling Self-Awareness are FREE right now, but may not stay that way for long.
And by the way, I would LOVE to receive comments in Amazon/Kindle, because comments really boost the books’ online presence and then more people will be able to find them and benefit.
Trust the Mystery has a new subtitle for the second edition of the ebook, which came out on January 25, 2017: Trust the Mystery: Raising Self-Awareness through Questions, Quotes, and Quantum Wisdom.
Wrasma Marketing, my indie publishing imprint, brought out this new edition as a Kindle Select.
Notice the Wrasma Marketing logo in the lower left-hand cover of the image. It’s a bow and arrow to depict faith, hope, and love, the three virtues that last forever. The greatest of these is love.