#fungus — Public Fediverse posts

Today’s #SciArtSeptember prompt is the colour saffron which made me think of a particular yellow-orange mushroom. This is a hand-carved lino block reduction print of a clump of poisonous, Eastern jack-o-lantern mushrooms (Omphalotus illudens) on a hardwood tree stump. The gills of these North American mushrooms are bioluminescent and glow green. My print has a layer of glow-in-the-dark ink so it too glows! 🧵

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1789535997

#linocut #printmaking #mushroom #fungus

Today’s #SciArtSeptember prompt is the colour saffron which made me think of a particular yellow-orange mushroom. This is a hand-carved lino block reduction print of a clump of poisonous, Eastern jack-o-lantern mushrooms (Omphalotus illudens) on a hardwood tree stump. The gills of these North American mushrooms are bioluminescent and glow green. My print has a layer of glow-in-the-dark ink so it too glows! 🧵

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1789535997

#linocut #printmaking #mushroom #fungus

Today’s #SciArtSeptember prompt is the colour saffron which made me think of a particular yellow-orange mushroom. This is a hand-carved lino block reduction print of a clump of poisonous, Eastern jack-o-lantern mushrooms (Omphalotus illudens) on a hardwood tree stump. The gills of these North American mushrooms are bioluminescent and glow green. My print has a layer of glow-in-the-dark ink so it too glows! 🧵

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1789535997

#linocut #printmaking #mushroom #fungus

Today’s #SciArtSeptember prompt is the colour saffron which made me think of a particular yellow-orange mushroom. This is a hand-carved lino block reduction print of a clump of poisonous, Eastern jack-o-lantern mushrooms (Omphalotus illudens) on a hardwood tree stump. The gills of these North American mushrooms are bioluminescent and glow green. My print has a layer of glow-in-the-dark ink so it too glows! 🧵

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1789535997

#linocut #printmaking #mushroom #fungus

Today’s #SciArtSeptember prompt is the colour saffron which made me think of a particular yellow-orange mushroom. This is a hand-carved lino block reduction print of a clump of poisonous, Eastern jack-o-lantern mushrooms (Omphalotus illudens) on a hardwood tree stump. The gills of these North American mushrooms are bioluminescent and glow green. My print has a layer of glow-in-the-dark ink so it too glows! 🧵

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1789535997

#linocut #printmaking #mushroom #fungus

Fungus on our walk yesterday morning before work. By the time I came home it was in full umbrella mode!

#fungus #fungi #NovaScotia #xp

Fungus on our walk yesterday morning before work. By the time I came home it was in full umbrella mode!

#fungus #fungi #NovaScotia #xp

Fungus on our walk yesterday morning before work. By the time I came home it was in full umbrella mode!

#fungus #fungi #NovaScotia #xp

Fungus on our walk yesterday morning before work. By the time I came home it was in full umbrella mode!

#fungus #fungi #NovaScotia #xp

Fungus on our walk yesterday morning before work. By the time I came home it was in full umbrella mode!

#fungus #fungi #NovaScotia #xp

Mushrooms with log and ferns, Pierce Road, Harvard Forest.

#mushrooms #forest #fungus #fungi #saprophytes #ecology #biology #biodiversity #nature #naturephotography #forests #ferns

Mushrooms with log and ferns, Pierce Road, Harvard Forest.

#mushrooms #forest #fungus #fungi #saprophytes #ecology #biology #biodiversity #nature #naturephotography #forests #ferns

Mushrooms with log and ferns, Pierce Road, Harvard Forest.

#mushrooms #forest #fungus #fungi #saprophytes #ecology #biology #biodiversity #nature #naturephotography #forests #ferns

Mushrooms with log and ferns, Pierce Road, Harvard Forest.

#mushrooms #forest #fungus #fungi #saprophytes #ecology #biology #biodiversity #nature #naturephotography #forests #ferns

Mushrooms with log and ferns, Pierce Road, Harvard Forest.

#mushrooms #forest #fungus #fungi #saprophytes #ecology #biology #biodiversity #nature #naturephotography #forests #ferns

我天 在街道旁巧遇可愛真菌
桂花耳珊瑚菌

店家看到我蹲在角落拍
好奇過來看
他們就一個個驚呼
"欸！開花嗎 " "好特別的顏色 "
然後我就開網頁給他們看
他們還蠻開心ㄉ
屬於很好逗的民眾 :OhnoSatoshiLaugh:

#nature #hualien #Taiwan #fungus

我天 在街道旁巧遇可愛真菌
桂花耳珊瑚菌

店家看到我蹲在角落拍
好奇過來看
他們就一個個驚呼
"欸！開花嗎 " "好特別的顏色 "
然後我就開網頁給他們看
他們還蠻開心ㄉ
屬於很好逗的民眾 :OhnoSatoshiLaugh:

#nature #hualien #Taiwan #fungus

我天 在街道旁巧遇可愛真菌
桂花耳珊瑚菌

店家看到我蹲在角落拍
好奇過來看
他們就一個個驚呼
"欸！開花嗎 " "好特別的顏色 "
然後我就開網頁給他們看
他們還蠻開心ㄉ
屬於很好逗的民眾 :OhnoSatoshiLaugh:

#nature #hualien #Taiwan #fungus

我天 在街道旁巧遇可愛真菌
桂花耳珊瑚菌

店家看到我蹲在角落拍
好奇過來看
他們就一個個驚呼
"欸！開花嗎 " "好特別的顏色 "
然後我就開網頁給他們看
他們還蠻開心ㄉ
屬於很好逗的民眾 :OhnoSatoshiLaugh:

#nature #hualien #Taiwan #fungus

我天 在街道旁巧遇可愛真菌
桂花耳珊瑚菌

店家看到我蹲在角落拍
好奇過來看
他們就一個個驚呼
"欸！開花嗎 " "好特別的顏色 "
然後我就開網頁給他們看
他們還蠻開心ㄉ
屬於很好逗的民眾 :OhnoSatoshiLaugh:

#nature #hualien #Taiwan #fungus

#fungi #fungus
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#fungi #fungus
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#fungi #fungus
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#fungi #fungus
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Perhaps #Meripilusgiganteus ? #meripilus

A species of coral fungus (Artomyces?) observed recently along the Pierce Road, Harvard Forest.

#mushrooms #forest #fungus #fungi #saprophytes #ecology #biology #biodiversity #nature #naturephotography #forests

A species of coral fungus (Artomyces?) observed recently along the Pierce Road, Harvard Forest.

#mushrooms #forest #fungus #fungi #saprophytes #ecology #biology #biodiversity #nature #naturephotography #forests

A species of coral fungus (Artomyces?) observed recently along the Pierce Road, Harvard Forest.

#mushrooms #forest #fungus #fungi #saprophytes #ecology #biology #biodiversity #nature #naturephotography #forests

A species of coral fungus (Artomyces?) observed recently along the Pierce Road, Harvard Forest.

#mushrooms #forest #fungus #fungi #saprophytes #ecology #biology #biodiversity #nature #naturephotography #forests

A species of coral fungus (Artomyces?) observed recently along the Pierce Road, Harvard Forest.

#mushrooms #forest #fungus #fungi #saprophytes #ecology #biology #biodiversity #nature #naturephotography #forests

“Nature alone is antique; and the oldest art, a mushroom”*…

Every August, Telluride hosts the Telluride Mushroom Festival—an event that brings fungal science, conservation, foraging, cultivation, psychedelic research, art, and community together in the Colorado mountains. Tamara MC reports…

… Nestled in the Colorado mountains, Telluride has long been a town of festivals: Bluegrass, Film, Mountainfilm, and Jazz. But for more than four decades, the Telluride Mushroom Festival has carved out its own niche as the largest gathering of its kind in North America.

The festival began as the Aspen Mushroom Conference before moving to Telluride in 1981. Its early circle included Dr. Emanuel “Manny” Salzman, a Denver radiologist and one of its founders, and his wife, Joanne Salzman, along with Gary Lincoff, author of The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms; Dr. Andrew Weil, the integrative medicine pioneer; Paul Stamets, the mycologist and entrepreneur who founded Fungi Perfecti; and Goodtimes himself. Furci credits Goodtimes with helping bring the gathering from Aspen to Telluride. Today, the festival operates as a program of the Telluride Institute.

What began as a relatively intimate gathering focused on psychedelics and fungal science has grown considerably. More than 700 people attended in 2019; by 2025, [Guiliana] Furci [here] says, attendance had reached about 1,500. The growth accelerated in the pandemic years, when mushroom foraging and other outdoor pursuits drew new interest, part of what Furci calls “the mushroom hype.” Roughly 70 percent of recent attendees, she says, were experiencing the festival for the first time. Yet despite the influx of newcomers, the gathering retains what Furci describes as a “tribe or family feeling,” with regulars returning year after year and considering one another family…

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… Without fungi, everyday life would look radically different: no beer, wine, chocolate, coffee, or bread. No penicillin. Fungi decompose organic matter and return nutrients to ecosystems, while fungal partnerships with plants helped make life on land possible and remain essential to much of terrestrial plant life.

“They are a life form that is different than plants and animals,” Furci explains. “They are neither plant nor animal nor bacteria. They can live on land, in the air, in water, both oceans and fresh waters.”

The fungal kingdom is astonishingly diverse, encompassing yeasts, molds, and mushroom-forming fungi, including everything from morels and chanterelles to conks and puffballs. Fungi also form the structural basis of lichens. When Furci mentions that morels and chanterelles are both fungi, she quickly puts the distance between them in perspective: “They are as closely related as a whale and a flea.”

Both whales and fleas belong to the animal kingdom, she notes, yet occupy profoundly different branches of it. The same is true within the fungal kingdom. “There are more ways to be a fungus than there are ways to be an animal,” Furci says.

Some of those differences challenge familiar ideas about reproduction. Schizophyllum commune, a widespread wood-decaying fungus, has more than 23,000 mating types—a genetic system far removed from a simple male-female binary.

Are fungi gendered? “No,” Furci says flatly. But she cannot bring herself to call them “it,” either. “They’re definitely not things, so I can’t talk about them as things. And they definitely don’t have a he vibe.”

For Furci, the problem is partly one of language. Calling a living organism “it” can reduce it to an object, while “he” or “she” imposes a gender fungi do not have. That attention to words extends well beyond pronouns.

Furci is one of the driving forces behind the “3F proposal”: Fauna, Flora, and Funga. For generations, “flora and fauna” has served as shorthand for the living world while leaving fungi linguistically—and often institutionally—out of the picture. In 2018, Furci and mycologists Francisco Kuhar, Elisandro Ricardo Drechsler-Santos, and Donald Pfister published a paper formally delimiting “funga” as the fungal equivalent of fauna and flora: the diversity of fungi within a particular place or region.

The idea has traveled far beyond the original paper. The Fauna Flora Funga Initiative now counts more than 2,500 signatories across 77 countries and documents adoption or use of mycologically inclusive language by conservation groups, universities, museums, and government agencies around the world. In 2021, the IUCN Species Survival Commission and Re:wild formally embraced the three-F framework, calling for fungi to be recognized alongside fauna and flora in conservation language…

Much more: “The Telluride Mushroom Festival: Where Fungal Love Runs Wild,” from @tamaramc.bsky.social

Still, we’d do well to remember (Sir) Terry Pratchett‘s wise reminder: “All Fungi are edible. Some fungi are only edible once.”

* Thomas Carlyle

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As we celebrate shrooms, we might recall that it was on this date in 1965, on their second day off during their tour of North America, that The Beatles rented a house owned by Zsa Zsa Gabor in Beverly Hills. There, they were visited by Roger McGuinn and David Crosby of the Byrds as well as English actress Eleanor Bron, who’d appeared in their film, Help. While young girls stood outside the gates, John Lennon and George Harrison had their second experience with LSD, and Ringo his first. (Paul did not partake.) It was here that McGuinn introduced Harrison to Indian music, particularly that of Ravi Shankar.

Actor Peter Fonda was also present, and helped comfort Harrison as he grew unsettled after taking LSD and thought he was dying. According to Fonda, Lennon overheard him saying to George, “I know what it’s like to be dead,” recalling a childhood incident in which his heart stopped beating several times due to blood loss after accidentally shooting himself in the stomach. Lennon then told Fonda “You’re making me feel like I’ve never been born,” words that were later included in the Revolver track “She Said She Said.”

For #FungiFriday I offer this #fungus I encountered yesterday growing on/by a rotting log on the bank of North Capitol Lake in #BatonRouge #Louisiana. My app tells me it might be Xylaria hypoxylon, which is commonly known as Candlesnuff Fungus. There’s also a little #Mosstodon going on here…

#Figs #Fungus #grapefruit #Mushrooms #Pomegranates

mk31 – Seraphim
#Electronic #darkambient #drone #fungus #imaginarylandscapes #industrialambient #psychedelicambient #psychological #ritualambient #sounddesign #soundscapes #spirit #Washington
CC BY-NC-ND (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives) #ccmusic
https://mk31.bandcamp.com/album/seraphim

Gymnosporangium sabinae ex Juniperus sp.

#Gymnosporangiumsabinae #Gymnosporangium #Juniperus #Wacholder #rust #rustfungus #rostpilz #rost #mushroom #mushrooms #fungus #fungi #pilz #pilze #champignons #champignon #nature #natur #Phytopathology #FungiFriends

Gymnosporangium clavariiforme ex Juniperus communis

#Gymnosporangiumclavariiforme #Gymnosporangium #rust #rustfungus #rostpilz #rost #Juniperuscommunis #Juniperus #Wacholder #mushroom #mushrooms #fungus #fungi #pilz #pilze #champignons #champignon #nature #natur #FungiFriends

Deadly #mold strains highly likely to acquire #resistance to new #drugs.

#evolve_not_acquire #fungus #pathogens #fungicides #ipflufenoquin #Aspergillus #mutation #selection

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-deadly-mold-strains-highly-resistance.html

Deadly #mold strains highly likely to acquire #resistance to new #drugs.

#evolve_not_acquire #fungus #pathogens #fungicides #ipflufenoquin #Aspergillus #mutation #selection

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-deadly-mold-strains-highly-resistance.html

Uromyces ervi ex Vicia hirsuta

#Viciahirsuta #Vicia #RauhaarigeWicke #hairytare #Vescehérissée #vezahirsuta #Uromyceservi #Uromyces #RustFungus #Rostpilz #rust #Rost #FungiFriends #Phytopathology #Pilz #Fungus #Nature

Uromyces ervi ex Vicia hirsuta

#Viciahirsuta #Vicia #RauhaarigeWicke #hairytare #Vescehérissée #vezahirsuta #Uromyceservi #Uromyces #RustFungus #Rostpilz #rust #Rost #FungiFriends #Phytopathology #Pilz #Fungus #Nature

Study identifies #fungus that breaks down ocean plastic
https://phys.org/news/2024-06-fungus-ocean-plastic.html

#Biodegradation of #polyethylene by the marine fungus Parengyodontium album https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969724029668

"A fungus living in the sea can break down the #plastic polyethylene, provided it has first been exposed to UV radiation from sunlight. Researchers expect that many more plastic degrading #fungi are living in deeper parts of the #ocean."

Gymnosporangium clavariiforme ex Juniperus communis

#Gymnosporangiumclavariiforme #Gymnosporangium #rust #rustfungus #rostpilz #rost #Juniperuscommunis #Juniperus #Wacholder #mushroom #mushrooms #fungus #fungi #pilz #pilze #champignons #champignon #nature #natur #FungiFriends

Worried About Sea Level Rise? Look For The Lichens
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https://hakaimagazine.com/news/worried-about-sea-level-rise-look-for-the-lichens/ <-- shared article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #marine #climatechange #SLR #sealevel #sealevelrise #lichen #environmental #water #future #infrastructure #coast #coastal #indicators #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #saltwater #flooding #inundation #species #algae #cyanobacteria #fungus #risk #planning #hazard #impacts #impactassessment