Coming down Cedar Mountain yesterday, I started noticing all these wood fragments and even entire logs that were seemingly dyed blue! W.T.H.? Then, as we were almost back to Bonneville H.S., I noted again that many of the little potholes up there have very bluish water. Is this hillside leaching some weird metal? (Copper, maybe?)
Not an isolated instance. This wasn't someone going crazy with spray paint!
Something in the water???
I took a small piece of wood home, to see if it'd stay blue after drying out. It did. Really weird...
Blue Wood on Cedar Mountain?
Blue Wood on Cedar Mountain?
Karl
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Re: Blue Wood on Cedar Mountain?
For the wood, perhaps this is the answer.
http://www.pbase.com/jewelwing/image/138869512
http://www.mushroomexpert.com/chlorocib ... scens.html
http://www.pbase.com/jewelwing/image/138869512
http://www.mushroomexpert.com/chlorocib ... scens.html
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." - John Muir
Re: Blue Wood on Cedar Mountain?
Interesting! The fungus photo on the first link looks exactly like what we saw, and fungus was one of our first suspicions. But the wood had absolutely no smell to it at all, nor did it appear there was anything on the surface. It was truly just like it'd been stained. Which is, actually, just like your first link shows. Hmmm...Waffle Stomper wrote:For the wood, perhaps this is the answer.
http://www.pbase.com/jewelwing/image/138869512
http://www.mushroomexpert.com/chlorocib ... scens.html
Karl
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Re: Blue Wood on Cedar Mountain?
I found other links too. It can sometimes infect cut timber as well. Sometimes it is gray instead of blue. Nature, is never boring.
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." - John Muir