Apologia 4.1 Phylum Basidiomycota

This lab was for exploring mushrooms and other fungi found outside.  The only readily available fungi I found in the wild was shelf fungi.  We used mushrooms from the store.

They separated the parts of the mushroom as instructed.  Then, using the gills on the large mushrooms, they tried to shake out spores. A spore is a reproductive cell with a hard,protective coating.

A few of the students found some on their slides.
They looked a little like this:

Edited May 06, 2017

As I walked through the tree grove this afternoon, I found a mushroom in the wild.  Aren't you excited?  Haha. 

I took some pictures and recreated the spore slide.  Take a look and see what you see if anything.

Some sort of bug.  Ick!