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Fluted Bird's Nest
Stunningly fascinating fruiting bodies that look like bird's nests. The metallic gray "eggs" inside the nests are called peridioles and contain spores. The shaggy, vase-shaped "nests", called peridia, serve as "splash cups" and help with spore dispersal by using the kinetic energy of rain. When raindrops strike the nest, the peridioles are projected into the air where they can then latch onto branches, leaves, etc. The nests were approximately 1cm tall.
"Cyathus striatus" is a common saprobic bird's nest fungus with a widespread distribution throughout temperate regions of the world. This fungus resembles a miniature bird's nest with numerous tiny "eggs"; the eggs, or "peridioles", are actually lens-shaped bodies that contain spores.
Similar species: Agaricales
By Christine Young
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Uploaded Jan 4, 2018. Captured Dec 3, 2017 14:54 in 28-198 Judd's Bridge Rd, New Milford, CT 06776, USA.
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Simply put, you just upload more photos, and then on each photo identify the species, with the same name in this case. They are then automatically grouped to that species. You can see this in action on this very post. Click on the species block (top right), then from the species record on "photos":
https://www.jungledragon.com/specie/6862/photos
So at JungleDragon, everything starts from a photo. On each photo you set the species and location, and that groups them. This is opposite to some other observation platforms which start from an observation, and then add photos, so I understand the confusion.
The reason for being so photo centric is that JungleDragon started out as a wildlife photo sharing platform, the whole species management system was added later. Posted 7 years ago