#fungus — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fungus, aggregated by home.social.
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Mouse studies find that the filamentous form of the common fungus *Mucor racemosus*, when present in the gut, confers some protection against radiation by producing amino acids that support DNA repair (L-glutamate, L-aspartate, and DL-lysine), and also promoting the production of radioprotective methionine by an intestinal bacterium.
Summary: https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-find-a-fungus-that-could-protect-the-body-from-radiation
Original paper (not open access): https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-find-a-fungus-that-could-protect-the-body-from-radiation
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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! 🧵
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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! 🧵
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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! 🧵
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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! 🧵
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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! 🧵
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Fungus on our walk yesterday morning before work. By the time I came home it was in full umbrella mode!
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Fungus on our walk yesterday morning before work. By the time I came home it was in full umbrella mode!
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Fungus on our walk yesterday morning before work. By the time I came home it was in full umbrella mode!
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Fungus on our walk yesterday morning before work. By the time I came home it was in full umbrella mode!
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Fungus on our walk yesterday morning before work. By the time I came home it was in full umbrella mode!
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Mushrooms with log and ferns, Pierce Road, Harvard Forest.
#mushrooms #forest #fungus #fungi #saprophytes #ecology #biology #biodiversity #nature #naturephotography #forests #ferns
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Mushrooms with log and ferns, Pierce Road, Harvard Forest.
#mushrooms #forest #fungus #fungi #saprophytes #ecology #biology #biodiversity #nature #naturephotography #forests #ferns
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Mushrooms with log and ferns, Pierce Road, Harvard Forest.
#mushrooms #forest #fungus #fungi #saprophytes #ecology #biology #biodiversity #nature #naturephotography #forests #ferns
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Mushrooms with log and ferns, Pierce Road, Harvard Forest.
#mushrooms #forest #fungus #fungi #saprophytes #ecology #biology #biodiversity #nature #naturephotography #forests #ferns
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Mushrooms with log and ferns, Pierce Road, Harvard Forest.
#mushrooms #forest #fungus #fungi #saprophytes #ecology #biology #biodiversity #nature #naturephotography #forests #ferns
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“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.”
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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.”
The crowd at the gate (source) #Beatles #culture #fungi #fungus #GiulianaFurci #history #IndianMusic #LSD #mushrooms #PeterFonda #RaviShankar #revolver #RogerMcGuinn #SheSaidSheSaid #Telluride #TellurideMushroomFestival #TheByrds -
#Growers #GrowersSocial #Xylariapolymorpha #DeadMansFingers #Fungus #Mycology
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#Mimicry is always a cool #biology topic so this bit of #science news is a treat:
Fake zombies
As if spiders aren't creepy enough, or bug victims of the famous "The Last of Us" zombie #Cordyceps #fungus aren't creepier, we have now discovered a #spider #species which has decided its strategy for survival in this world is to simply *look* like a zombie spider fungus victim. To disgust predators and put prey at ease
It's called Taczanowskia waska
It lives in #Ecuador
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mushroom
dreaming… a random bit
** in the ending of The Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenges from WordPress, here’s your Sunday Weekly Photo Prompt: travel **
medicine buddha mantra: Tayata Om Bekandze Bekandze Maha Bekandze Radza Samudgate Soha
health, wealth, and prosperity: Om Vasudhare Svaha
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#afterTheRain #atlanta #closeUp #colorful #comparison #comparisons #dailyPost #dew #dewDrops #footSelfie #found #frontLawn #frontYard #fungus #grass #green #home #lawn #lostAndFound #macro #mushroom #nature #photography #postaday #rain #rainBoots #rainboots #raindrops #red #roswell #scale #shoes #size #thimble #weeklyPhotoChallenge #yard -
A #DrugResistant #'Superbug' #Fungus Infected 7,000 Americans in #2025
This super bug is spreading across half the US
The fungus poses a greater risk for vulnerable populations in #nursinghomes and #hospitals
#Candida auris, a type of invasive #yeast that can cause deadly infections in people with weakened immune systems, has infected at least 7,000 people across 27 US states, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/candida-auris-deadly-superbug-fungus-b2893703.html
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#Wikipedia - #HazelTrees! Another tree that is found in many locations in the Northern Hemisphere!
Excerpt: "Corylus has around 14–18 species. The circumscription of species in eastern Asia is disputed, with World Flora Online and the Flora of China differing in which taxa are accepted, within this region. WFO accepts 17 species while Flora of China accepts 20 species (including Corylus mandshurica).
Only those taxa accepted by both sources are listed below.
The species are grouped as follows:
Nut surrounded by a soft, leafy involucre, multiple-stemmed, suckering shrubs to 12 m tall
Involucre short, about the same length as the nut
- Corylus americana – American hazel, eastern North America
- Corylus avellana – Common hazel, Europe and western Asia
- Corylus heterophylla – Asian hazel, Asia
- Corylus yunnanensis – Yunnan hazel, central and southern China
Involucre long, twice the length of the nut or more, forming a 'beak'
- Corylus colchica – Colchican filbert, Caucasus
- Corylus cornuta – Beaked hazel, North America
- Corylus maxima – Filbert, southeastern Europe and southwest Asia
- Corylus sieboldiana – Asian beaked hazel, northeastern Asia and Japan (syn. C. mandshurica)
Nut surrounded by a stiff, spiny involucre, single-stemmed trees to 20–35 m tall
Involucre moderately spiny and also with glandular hairs
- Corylus chinensis – Chinese hazel, western China
- Corylus colurna – Turkish hazel, southeastern Europe and Asia Minor
- Corylus fargesii – Farges' hazel, western China
- Corylus jacquemontii – Jacquemont's hazel, Himalaya
- Corylus wangii – Wang's hazel, southwest China
Involucre densely spiny, resembling a chestnut burr
- Corylus ferox – Himalayan hazel, Himalaya, Tibet and southwest China (syn. C. tibetica)."Several hybrids exist, and they can occur between species in different sections of the genus, e.g. Corylus × colurnoides (C. avellana × C. colurna). The oldest confirmed hazel species is Corylus johnsonii found as fossils in the Ypresian-age rocks of Ferry County, Washington.
"Chilean hazel (Gevuina avellana), despite its name, is not related to this genus.
Ecology
"At least 21 species of #fungus have a #mutualistic relationship with hazel. Lactarius pyrogalus grows almost exclusively on hazel, and hazel is one of two kinds of host for the rare Hypocreopsis rhododendri. Several rare species of Graphidion lichen depend on hazel trees. In the UK, five species of moth are specialised to feed on hazel including Parornix devoniella. Animals which eat hazelnuts include #RedDeer, #dormouse and #RedSquirrel.
Uses
"The nuts of all hazels are edible. The common hazel is the species most extensively grown for its nuts, followed in importance by the #filbert. Nuts are also harvested from the other species, but apart from the filbert, none is of significant commercial importance.
"A number of cultivars of the common hazel and filbert are grown as ornamental plants in gardens, including forms with contorted stems (C. avellana 'Contorta', popularly known as "Corkscrew hazel" or "Harry Lauder's walking stick" from its gnarled appearance); with weeping branches (C. avellana 'Pendula'); and with purple leaves (C. maxima 'Purpurea').
"Hazel is a traditional material used for making #wattle, withy #fencing, #baskets, and the frames of #Coracleboats. The tree can be coppiced, and regenerating shoots allow for harvests every few years. There is a seven-year cycle (cut and grow) for hurdle (fence) making.
"Hazels are used as food plants by the larvae of various species of #Lepidoptera including Eriocrania chrysolepidella.
Culture
"The #Celts believed hazelnuts gave one wisdom and inspiration. There are numerous variations on an ancient tale that nine hazel trees grew around a sacred pool, dropping into the water nuts that were eaten by salmon (a fish sacred to #Druids), which absorbed the wisdom. A Druid teacher, in his bid to become omniscient, caught one of these special salmon and asked a student to cook the fish, but not to eat it. While he was cooking it, a blister formed and the pupil used his thumb to burst it, which he naturally sucked to cool, thereby absorbing the fish's wisdom. This boy was called #FionnMacCumhail (Fin McCool) and went on to become one of the most heroic leaders in Gaelic mythology.
" 'The #HazelBranch' from #Grimms' Fairy Tales claims that hazel branches offer the greatest protection from snakes and other things that creep on the earth. In the Grimm tale '#Cinderella', a hazel branch is planted by the protagonist at her mother's grave and grows into a tree that is the site where the girl's wishes are granted by birds."
Learn more:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazel#SolarPunkSunday #Hazelnuts #HazelTrees #CelticMythology #NutTrees #Trees
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Part of my bountiful, backyard #TurkeyTails colony. I have thousands of them now 😀
#FungiFriday #mushrooms #nature #BackyardNature #fungus #fungi #mycelium #Wsanec #Saanich #biodiversity #mosstodon #lichensubscribe #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #Medicinal #Wildcrafting
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The #fungus #Clitocybe #nebularis (#Basidiomycota), also known as #cloudedagaric, is a #holarctic and often common #soildwelling #species, mostly found in open, nutrient-rich #forest #soils. It is occasionally #parasitized by the fungus #Volvariella #surrecta (Basidiomycota). C. Hears et al. (2013) point to its #antagonistic effect against phytopathogenic #oomycetes (Stramenopiles) species of the genus #Phytophthora.
©#StefanFWirth Saarland 2025Ref
http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/nr.2013.42025
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3/5 #fungi
Shot a couple of weeks ago in #EppingForest (near Theydon Bois). These were the only Fly Agarics I spotted - and rather orange ones.
Sigma 105 f2.8 #macro lens with a four-thirds mount - adapted to my OM1 - natural light.
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Mushroom Nerds (and hobbyists, observers, etc): If you are in the greater Seattle area, consider coming to the Puget Sound Mycological Society's 2025 Wild Mushroom Show at Shoreline Community College, the weekend of October 25th and 26th.
More info https://www.psms.org/show.php
cc: @Mikal post above reminding me this was coming up somehow...
#Mushroom #Mushrooms #Mushiverse #Mushtodon #Spore #Sporeprint #Fungi #Fungal #Fungus #Cordyceps
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There may come a time when I see an ad for cordyceps without thinking of The Last of Us, but today is not that day.
Nice try, little fungus.🍄🟫
(Yes, I know that’s a mushroom, not a fungus…but close enough?)
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Good evening, #mastoart #mastodon
This is #SilentSunday #fotografie #photography
Lake Sanitarium Mount Macedon #victoria #australia #naarm
#roentare #macro #macrophotography #nature #naturephotography #moss #fungus #mushroom #mushrooms #special #beautiful #bokeh #green #dof #depthoffield #umbrella #closeup #photooftheday #pictureoftheday #picoftheday #potd #ayearforart #buyintoart
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Golden ear (Naematelia aurantia) parasitizing false turkey tail (Stereum hirsutum). I really wanted to take this log home but people were looking. Rose Valley, PA, USA. #fungi #fungus #mushrooms #log #parasitic #mycology #biology #nature
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Passed this gorgeous #mushroom — perhaps? — on my hike today. I’m no #mycologist or #botanist but would love to know the name of this #plant or #fungus.
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Podosphaera aphanis ex Alchemilla vulgaris agg.
#Alchemillavulgaris #Alchemilla #Frauenmantel #Ladysmantle #piedeleón #Alchémillecommune #Podosphaeraaphanis #Podosphaera #EchterMehltau #PowderyMildew #Phytopathology #mushroom #mushrooms #fungus #fungi #pilz #champignon #nature #natur #FungiFriends
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Hapalosphaeria deformans ex Rubus fruticosus agg.
#Hapalosphaeriadeformans #Hapalosphaeria #Rubusfruticosus #Brombeere #Blackberry #Ronce #mushroom #mushrooms #fungus #fungi #pilz #pilze #champignons #champignon #nature #natur #FungiFriends #Phytopathology
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Hapalosphaeria deformans ex Rubus fruticosus agg.
#Hapalosphaeriadeformans #Hapalosphaeria #Rubusfruticosus #Brombeere #Blackberry #Ronce #mushroom #mushrooms #fungus #fungi #pilz #pilze #champignons #champignon #nature #natur #FungiFriends #Phytopathology
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Hapalosphaeria deformans ex Rubus fruticosus agg.
#Hapalosphaeriadeformans #Hapalosphaeria #Rubusfruticosus #Brombeere #Blackberry #Ronce #mushroom #mushrooms #fungus #fungi #pilz #pilze #champignons #champignon #nature #natur #FungiFriends #Phytopathology
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Urocystis fischeri ex Carex flacca
#Carexflacca #Carex #BlaugrüneSegge #bluesedge #Laîcheglauque #Urocystisfischeri #Urocystis #smut #smutfungus #Brandpilz #Brand #phytopathology #mushroom #mushrooms #fungus #fungi #pilz #pilze #champignons #champignon #nature #natur
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Mycoremediation after Maui wildfires: "The inoculated silt-sock technique has made its way across the Pacific to Hawaii, where the Maui Bioremediation Group has put local strains of fungi to work in service of recovery from the catastrophic Lahaina fire in August 2023. That group is developing a Hawaii-specific approach to bioremediation that includes treating carbon-rich charcoal created from plant matter with a compost “tea” composed of fungi and other microorganisms collected from the same areas where they’ll be installed; they then stuff that charcoal and wood chips inoculated with Pleurotus cystidiosus (the abalone oyster mushroom) in their biofiltration socks." - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/can-scientists-harness-the-magic-of-mushrooms-to-clean-up-polluted-landscapes-180986561/
#fungus #mycoremediation #ecology #pollution #wildfires #maui #hawaii
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Puccinia mirabilissima ex Mahonia aquifolium
#Puccinia #Pucciniamirabilissima #Mahonia #Mahonie #Mahoniaaquifolium #rost #rust #rostpilz #rustfungus #mushroom #mushrooms #fungus #fungi #pilz #pilze #champignons #champignon #nature #natur #FungiFriends
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Hunting the #ghostwort – a bryological Halloween tale
https://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/39486"It’s a myco-heterotroph, which means that it can’t make its own food, and instead obtains it from #fungi. In fact, Aneura mirabilis is an epiparasite – it’s #parasitic on an organism that’s itself a #parasite! The #ghostwort gets its food from a #fungus called Tulasnella. This fungus in turn forms an ectomycorrhizal association with the roots of nearby #trees, usually birch"
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Fungus (Cyptotrama asprata).
Alone
ISO 66, 1/66. ISO 76, 1/100. ISO 125, 1/180#awesome_nature #awesome_naturepics #Blackside #Field #Fungus #Growth #Nature #Outdoors #Plant #podium_macro #Snap_allnature #Snap_artgallery #Snap_community #Snap_colours #Snap_country #Snap_gardening #Snap_macro #ThARTsday
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Coleroa alchemillae ex Alchemilla vulgaris agg.
#Alchemillavulgaris #Alchemilla #Frauenmantel #Ladysmantle #Alchémillecommune #piedeleón #Coleroaalchemillae #Coleroa #Phytopathology #FungiFriends #fungus #Pilz #Nature #champignon
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Exobasidium vaccinii ex Vaccinium vitis-idaea
#Vacciniumvitisidaea #Vaccinium #Preiselbeere #cowberry #Airellerouge #mirtillorosso #arándanorojo #Exobasidiumvaccinii #Exobasidium #PreiselbeerNacktbasidie #smut #smutfungus #Brandpilz #Brand #fungus #fungi #pilz #pilze #nature #FungiFriends
