Observaciones de lissamartinez

A single pink puffball was visible among the mown ground cover in the upland area near Olmos Creek. I later found more, but this was the only one at this spot. I include a photo of the leaves, since the sensitive plants are hard to ID from a single puffball.

the creek bank riparian zone has numerous small trees, which are flooded whenever the creek rises after a storm. I believe they are ash trees, either Green Ash or Texas ash. Taxon also suggested Mexican Ash. I will keep it at the Genus level for now.

This observation is a couple of upright small mushrooms emerging from the ground cover in a public park, near the banks of a creek. The cap of the mushroom is rounded with a soft texture. The stalk is cream colored and broad. Neither one was more than 2 inches tall. The morning sunlight angle helped illuminate each of them clearly. The second photo is an overhead view of the smaller mushroom. I saw the same mushroom last week at another location miles away, but I do not know it before these 2 recent events.

Does frog fruit have the ability to grow upward? This site is where I come monthly to check the water quality, and I t thought I recognized most of the low foliage here. We've had lots of rain this spring, and the mowers have not cut this area lately, so a number of individuals of this species have grown higher than is usually allowed in this mown area. There is frog fruit here, and these leaves look similar. I suggest frog fruits, and hope an Identifier corrects me. No blooms on the stem or top of stem.