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A ROAD TO FIND OUT

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A red mushroom cap with pale patches among fallen leaves.
Amanita muscaria · Photography: nsza
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Registration in the municipality of . One of the species addressed on this route.

The photographs show the mushrooms, not the association of fungi with roots.

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7 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 7 MIN

Fungi and plants: relationships undiscovered

Seven readings to explore decomposition, partnership and parasitism, meet fungi that live within plants and design a garden with various habitats. Compares relationships and experiences the activities. General explanations do not identify local fungi for consumption.

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What am I gonna find out?
  1. A fallen leaf still has its way
  2. Roots have partners
  3. The plant also has life inside
  4. There are fungi that live off others
  5. Not all roots are partners
  6. From tree bark to meadow floor
  7. A garden can also accommodate an invisible world
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A close-up of a dark beetle on the ground.
Dorcus parallelipipedus · Photography: Jakob Fahr
About the photograph

Registration in the municipality of . One of the species addressed on this route.

The photograph shows the beetle, not the development of larvae in the wood.

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7 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 8 MIN

Fungus: the work you don't see

Seven stories to follow the life of the mycelium, understand the food and discover who takes advantage of the wood. Draws a network that explores resources, compares the decomposition and opens the photograph of a beetle observed in the municipality.

To try7 activities · 7 interactive holdings · 6 questions
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What am I gonna find out?
  1. The mushroom is just a part
  2. Why do mushrooms grow in a circle?
  3. A meal prepared outside
  4. A fallen leaf still has its way
  5. A log can be a small house
  6. An old log still feeds life
  7. More water is not always better
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9 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 9 MIN

Life hidden in bread dough

Nine stories follow the cereals to the pasta, the oven, the lunch and the bakery ads. Compare Recovos' recipe, the life of yeasts and the bread rituals. Ingredients and remarkable steps accompany the fountains; in the end, create an advertisement inspired by the memory of 1939.

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What am I gonna find out?
  1. Before the bread, there was a field
  2. Some fungi don't have a hat.
  3. The bread kept the next batch
  4. This bread mix rye and wheat
  5. Before the bread, this cake would come in.
  6. The oven gave a signal.
  7. The bread also carried words
  8. A snack with bread still warm
  9. The bread was also announced in verse
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White, fan-shaped fungi on a branch, photographed by Pedro Andrade.
Fungus (Schizophyllum commune) · Photography: Pedro Andrade
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Registration in the municipality of . One of the species addressed on this route.

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8 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 8 MIN

Fungus: far beyond the hat

Lights, spores, lichens and five readings with local photographs. Compare shapes on wood and rock and discover what an image reveals or leaves hidden. A path to understand fungi, without identifying species for consumption.

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What am I gonna find out?
  1. Some fungi don't have a hat.
  2. A journey hardly anyone sees
  3. A lichen is a partnership
  4. Small fans, a life in wood
  5. Looks like a leaf, but it's a partnership.
  6. A small landscape on the stone
  7. The stains of a hat also change
  8. Blue in mushroom, straw in spores
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A small specimen with green leaves beside a tree trunk.
Freixo · Photography: João Lima
About the photograph

Registration in the municipality of . One of the species addressed on this route.

The photograph shows a young ash; it does not document the forest described in the study.

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8 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 7 MIN

Small lives, big surprises

It looks at nature on the scale of details: leaves, insects, a shell with bands and a slug with spots. It compares shapes and experiences the activities, distinguishing local photographs from general explanations about the species.

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What am I gonna find out?
  1. The river also has a forest
  2. A little bird that dives
  3. A carnivorous plant in the mountains
  4. From flower to flower, a shared task
  5. A log can be a small house
  6. An old log still feeds life
  7. A shell, lots of drawings
  8. A leopard-shaped slug
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A red mushroom cap with pale patches among fallen leaves.
Amanita muscaria · Photography: nsza
About the photograph

Registration in the municipality of . One of the species addressed on this route.

The first photograph shows the hat seen from above; the second, a copy already cut. They do not document all the details described. Observe without cutting or tasting.

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8 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 7 MIN

The World Hidden From Fungi

Hats, corals, nests and shelves: eight stories to look at fungi in another way. Cross shapes, functions and photographs already documented, distinguishing the general examples from local records. Includes questions and drawings to try.

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What am I gonna find out?
  1. The mushroom is just a part
  2. Blades, pores and other forms
  3. ♪ Corals that don't live in the sea ♪
  4. A nest without birds
  5. Shears that grow in a log
  6. Roots have partners
  7. A fallen leaf still has its way
  8. Know without proving
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Elongated and green olive leaf, with light central ribbedness and other leaves at the bottom.
Olive leaf photographed in Stutensee, Germany, in 2011. Botanical illustration; it is not a record of Cabeceiras. This frame does not show the two faces of the same leaf.
Photography: H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0
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Date given at source: . Source consulted in 2026-11-07. EXIF orientation, proportional resizing and WebP conversion; no retouching or clipping of the file.

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7 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 8 MIN

A walk with another look

Seven readings to move from interpretation spaces to small details of nature: moss, wings, aquatic insects, leaves and wood. Explore links and observation proposals; it is a reading sequence, without mandatory itinerary or promise of sightings.

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What am I gonna find out?
  1. A green space can also teach
  2. A first meeting in Moinhos de Rei
  3. A little carpet full of life
  4. The inn wings give a clue
  5. Small shelters underwater
  6. One leaf, two faces
  7. A log can be a small house
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A long, dark feather with pale markings, held at its base.
Noitibo-European · Photography: João Lima
About the photograph

Registration in the municipality of . One of the species addressed on this route.

The photograph shows a feather. Community registration identification does not allow the bird to be assigned sex or age from this image.

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5 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 6 MIN

Between light and humidity

From the glow of insects to the shadow of forests: five readings to see how living beings relate to the environment. Sources distinguish general biology and local records.

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What am I gonna find out?
  1. A Light Bringing a Message
  2. At nightfall, a bird looks like an insect
  3. The thimble likes the banks of the forest
  4. A little carpet full of life
  5. More water is not always better
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A cut mushroom held in a hand, with a visible blue area.
Gyroporus cyanescens · Photography: André Ferreira
About the photograph

Registration in the municipality of . One of the species addressed on this route.

Observation of citizen science in Cabeceiras de Basto (São Nicolau), of 27 September 2025. The image of the cut copy is of the observer; it does not represent a demonstration to repeat.

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8 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 7 MIN

The great journeys of small spores

Eight readings to follow the spores: release, wind, drops and insects. A scheme separates the beginning of the journey from the transport; the sequence distinguishes general examples and a local photograph without guiding collection or consumption.

To try3 activities · 6 interactive holdings · 5 questions
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What am I gonna find out?
  1. Look deeper.
  2. A fungus without a hat
  3. A journey hardly anyone sees
  4. A drop can put spores to travel
  5. Insect hitchhiking spores
  6. A nest without birds
  7. Blue in mushroom, straw in spores
  8. Some fungi don't have a hat.
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A red mushroom cap with pale patches among fallen leaves.
Amanita muscaria · Photography: nsza
About the photograph

Registration in the municipality of . One of the species addressed on this route.

The photographs show the mushrooms, not the association of fungi with roots.

Source: iNaturalist · CC-BY-NC. No editing; screen size adjustment. Only non-commercial uses.

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8 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 9 MIN

There's a world under the feet

Follows a leaf, explores galleries and roots and accompanies the water to the river. Eight stories link the life of the soil to the landscape, with questions and proposals to observe without collecting.

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What am I gonna find out?
  1. Underfoot, a mixed world
  2. Worms also change the landscape
  3. There are little animals grazing in the fungi
  4. A meal prepared outside
  5. A fallen leaf still has its way
  6. Roots have partners
  7. The river begins before the shore
  8. The life of the river also tells a story
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