Friday, December 28, 2012

Fungus Friday

These mushrooms growing out of the side of a decaying log in Thetis Lake Park have clearly sensed which way is up despite the contortions of stem this requires in this situation. My question is, since they have none of that light sensitive substance, chlorophyll, how do they know up from down?

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