#fungai — Public Fediverse posts

📰 7.4 Mil. Plant and Fungi Samples Have Been Digitized to ‘Democratize Knowledge’ and Save Species

🗒 "Efforts like Kew’s and others mean that an archive of 145 million plant, animal, and fungi samples is now freely available to anyone with an internet connection worldwide who might want to access them for any reason."

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/7-4-mil-plant-and-fungi-samples-have-been-digitized-to-democratize-knowledge-and-save-species/

#plants #fungai #botany #ecology #nature #science

📰 Mushrooms Used to Clean E. Coli from Rivers and Immediately Implemented in England 🍄 💧

🗒 "The application was ever so simple: a bag of woodchips impregnated with turkey tail spores left at the bottom of the river. The mycelia, or filament system of the mushroom, filtered out 80% of the E. coli, 83% of the phosphorous, and 35% of the nitrogen."

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/mushrooms-used-to-clean-e-coli-from-rivers-and-immediately-implemented-in-england/

#goodnews #water #environment #solarpunk #fungai #mushrooms #england

It looks a little worse for wear, but I saw a mushroom on my travels.

I think it’s a Laetiporus mushroom, but I’m not totally sure.

#mushroom #fungai #lifefindsaway

Found a big buddy today

#fungai #nature #outdoors