Chapter III  ·  Field Maturation Substrate: decaying oak log, Surrey
Observation Series — 168 h Plate XVII

Insight — what the plates record

The sulphur lives three days. The grey lasts a lifetime.

Fresh sporangia (sulphur)
Aging stalks (ochre)
Spent fruiting bodies (grey)
100 75 50 25 0 pigment intensity (lux equiv.) 0 h 24 48 72 96 120 144 168 hours from emergence peak luminance · 38 h crossover · 96 h Fig. 1. Fig. 2.
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