Ever seen a mushroom covered in droplets of water, but nothing else is wet? It’s not dew. It’s not raindrops. Those droplets of water are coming from inside the mushroom through a process called guttation. It happens when a mushroom (or plant) has an excess amount of water, and needs to excrete it. It also happens to be beautiful. Most often in the PNW you might notice it on shelf mushrooms, those fan-like hard mushrooms you see growing on trees. But it can happen to all types of fungi, includin

Have you seen this before? Here’s the deeper science-y explanation: Guttation is a process which creates water droplets on the tips of leaves of certain plants, typically occurring during the night or early morning. This phenomenon is driven by root pressure, which occurs when soil moisture is high... the pressure forces water, containing dissolved minerals, up through the plant and out through specialized structures located at the leaf margins or tips. These droplets are not dew (which condense