Urban Nature Pictures 9/22
Alexis amid the sunflowers and phragmites. I took a very similar picture almost exactly one year ago.
This polypore was growing on the dirt nearby. Hidden in the soil is the wood of a long-dead tree. If the tree was a broadleaf, this mushroom is Ganoderma lucidum; if it was a conifer, the mushroom is G. tsugae.