{"id":1006,"date":"2007-11-25T01:11:40","date_gmt":"2007-11-25T01:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1006"},"modified":"2013-11-23T12:24:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T12:24:14","slug":"fungus-and-living-fossils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/fungus-and-living-fossils\/","title":{"rendered":"Fungus and living fossils"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/fungi_2311076432.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/fungi_2311076432.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><br \/>I came across this picturesque clutch of fungi on Friday in some roadside woodland. At first I thought it was honey fungus, but it lacks some of the features. Apparently it is a <i>pholiota<\/i>, but I&#39;ve not been able to identify the sub group. The reason I saw it was because I was out taking some photos of the <i>gingko biloba<\/i> with a colleague.<\/p>\n<p>The <i>gingko biloba<\/i> or &#39;maidenhair&#39; tree is unique, and exists in a plant classification group of its own. Known as a &#39;living fossil&#39; it appears to have avoided almost any evolutionary steps for over 100 million years. Astoundingly, it is essentially the same as it was in the Lower Cretaceous period :faint:  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/leaf_2311076422.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16333\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/leaf_2311076422-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"gingko biloba\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-16333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/leaf_2311076422-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/leaf_2311076422-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/leaf_2311076422.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More information on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xs4all.nl\/~kwanten\/thetree.htm\" target=\"_blank\">gingko biloba<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Camera note: both shots taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1173,1151],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fungi","tag-tree","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}