Nature Walk – 10/6/22

Today I went to the Pine Tree Preserve which is on the border of the Boston College campus and the Reservoir. The weather was beautiful today – a bright blue sky with a few clouds and a temperature around 75 degrees with a light breeze here and there. The leaves are slowly changing color – from bright green to orange – given that it is the beginning of fall. While very sunny today, given all the trees in Pine Tree Preserve, it is a highly shaded area. There is a lot of biodiversity in the preserve with plants ranging from flowers such as Blanket flowers to fungi mushrooms and, with no shock given the preserve's name, pine cones. Specifically, in reference to the fungi mushrooms, I was able to find two types: Tricholoma Fracticum and Purple-Veiled Slippery Jack. Given the immense amount of plants, one can confidently conclude that Photosynthesis (i.e. the use of solar light as energy) is constantly occurring and in immensely large quantities.

Publicado el 07 de octubre de 2022 por nicole_a2411