Lab 3 Journal Entry on Decomposers
Phylogeny of the Splitgill mushroom:
The Splitgill mushroom, which looks like a Chinese fan, is known as Schizophyllum commune. It has the genus of Schizophyllum, the order of Gilled mushrooms, the class of Agaricomycetes, the phylum of Basidiomycota and the kingdom of Fungi. Basidiomycota always refers to a filamentous fungi composed of hyphae, while Gilled mushrooms refer to the type of mushroom with which we are most familiar. Some of them are edible but some are toxic. Schizophyllum‘s range is reduced to coral-like mushrooms with undulating waves.
An adaptation present in all observed species in your group project:
The adaptation that all observed species in our group project have in common is: They all live in a wet environment such as earthworms, the fungus and so on. Taking the fungus as an example, it is really easy to find those fungus after a rainy day or deep in the woods. The fungus do not make its own food, but use their mycelium to reach into the soil and decaying wood and suck up readily available nutrients to sustain itself. So they often grow in damp, warm places rich in organic matter.
One unique adaptation for one of my observations:
One unique adaptation for the Splitgill mushroom is that they split almost everywhere on the tree trunks with shapes like a Chinese fan. This is because they often split when they are lack of water and moistened into gills, causing them to have a split shape, which is really unique.
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