{"id":611,"date":"2006-08-03T08:50:52","date_gmt":"2006-08-03T15:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/08\/03\/earthstars\/"},"modified":"2008-05-14T11:58:17","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T18:58:17","slug":"earthstars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/08\/03\/earthstars\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthstars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the summer of 2006, I discovered these dried out and weirdly alien-looking Earthstar (<em>Geastrum<\/em> sp.) fungi under an oak tree in an oak-juniper woodland south of Tucson, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/August\/Geastrum.jpg\" alt=\"Earthstar (Geastrum sp.) fungi\" title=\"Earthstar (Geastrum sp.) fungi\" width=\"480\" height=\"340\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An Earthstar, also known as an Earth Star Mushroom, <a href=\"http:\/\/herbarium.usu.edu\/fungi\/FunFacts\/starfact.htm\">splits open into numerous starlike rays<\/a> when it rains, revealing its round, spore-filled inner sack and ejecting its spores into the wet environment.<\/p>\n<p>Earthstars are <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/07\/02\/saprotrophs-jungle-mushrooms\/\">saprotrophs<\/a> and will grow and feed on decaying plant material, such as whatever these ones found under the oak tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the summer of 2006, I discovered these dried out and weirdly alien-looking Earthstar (Geastrum sp.) fungi under an oak tree in an oak-juniper woodland south of Tucson, Arizona. An Earthstar, also known as an Earth Star Mushroom, splits open into numerous starlike rays when it rains, revealing its round, spore-filled inner sack and ejecting&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/08\/03\/earthstars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More &rarr; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-arizona-organisms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}