Easy nature quiz. Guessing if I have at least 10 visitors to the blog today (which is not certain given recent trends) one of them will know how to explain the white dust in this image.
Anyone?
9 thoughts on “What’s The White Powder”
That’s not so easy, Fred. Fungal cocaine perhaps?
Or powdery mildew?
We’ll give a bit more time for nature sleuths to get this one. Keep’em coming.
Powdery mildew
Mushroom spores. If you place the mushroom cap on a piece of dark paper, cover it with an upside down bowl to prevent moving air from disturbing it, you will have a nice spore print in 24 hours.
I say mites, but I am just pulling it out of thin air.
That’s not so easy, Fred. Fungal cocaine perhaps?
Or powdery mildew?
We’ll give a bit more time for nature sleuths to get this one. Keep’em coming.
Powdery mildew
Mushroom spores. If you place the mushroom cap on a piece of dark paper, cover it with an upside down bowl to prevent moving air from disturbing it, you will have a nice spore print in 24 hours.
I say mites, but I am just pulling it out of thin air.
I’m with Lee.
Aphids?
I’m with Lee too; they’re mushroom spores.