Thursday's prompt made me scratch my head a bit. I really didn't want to draw skulls or graves or dead things (which is what a lot have done). Instead, I drew one of the more remarkable aspects of decay, Fungi. With a worldwide distribution, fungi grow in a wide range of habitats on every continent except Antarctica. As of 2022 around 148,000 species of fungi have been described by taxonomists. Fungi are everywhere, the soil, the air, in lakes, rivers and seas, and and within plants, animals, in food and clothing and in your body. Together with bacteria, fungi are responsible for the breaking down (decay) of organic matter to build healthy soil.
Fungi are important and essential decomposers in our ecosystem - the earth would be a dead place without fungi. So next time you have a plate of mushrooms, give thanks for this humble, hard working miracle organism!
White Wood Fungus #2 Inktober 'Decay' by Linda Weil©
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