#fungus — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fungus, aggregated by home.social.
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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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#fungi #fungus
///blotting.embedded.surreal
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Thecaphora oxalidis ex Oxalis stricta
Lohmarer Wald, Lohmar, NRW, Germany, 22.8.2026
#Thecaphora #Thecaphoraoxalidis #Oxalis #Oxalisstricta #Brandpilz #Smutfungus #Pilz #Fungus #Phytopathology #FungiFriends #FungiFriday #Nature
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Laetiporus sulphureus
Lohmarer Wald, Lohmar, NRW, Germany, 22.8.2026
#Laetiporus #Laetiporussulphureus #Polypore #Chickenofthewoods #FungiFriends #FungiFriday #Nature #Pilz #Mushroom #Fungus
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Ganoderma resinaceum on Salix sp.
Duisburg-Homberg, NRW, Germany, 8.8.2026
#Ganoderma #Ganodermaresinaceum #Pilz #Fungus #Basidiomycete #FungiFriends #Nature
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Sporisorium montaniense ex Eragrostis minor
Park Sanssouci, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany, 25.7.2026
#Sporisoriummontaniense #Sporisorium
#Eragrostis #Eragrostisminor #Brandpilz #Smutfungus #Phytopathology #Nature #Pilz #Fungus #FungiFriends -
Pleurotus pulmonarius on Fagus sylvatica
Lengerich, NRW, Germany, 19.7.2026
#Pleurotus #Pleurotuspulmonarius #Lungenseitling #Pilz #Fungus #Basidiomycete #Mushroom #FungiFriends #Nature
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I'm a day early for #fungusfriday as I'm not sure I'll be able to post tomorrow:
https://adam-gladstone.pixels.com/featured/1-turkey-tail-fungus-on-a-tree-trunk-adam-gladstone.html
#photography #ayearforart #buyintoart #fedigiftshop #fungus #turkeytail #fineartamerica
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Baked king oyster mushrooms 🍄🟫 with fresh cucumbers 😋
Ajipon, salt, and ground red pepper sprinkled over both 😉
I’ve tried several different ways to cook these mushrooms, but simple oven baking turned out to be the best so far 🤔 -
#Fungal #Fire starter! Did you know this? 🔥👀 #yt #KingAlfredsCake- #Fungus #Daldinia #Concentrica
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#Chernobyl #Fungus Appears to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability
Clinging to walls of one of the most #radioactive buildings, scientists found a strange black fungus curiously living its best life.
Called Cladosporium sphaerospermum, and some scientists think its dark pigment – #melanin – may allow it to harness ionizing #radiation through a process similar to the way plants harness light for photosynthesis. This proposed mechanism is even referred to as #radiosynthesis.
https://www.sciencealert.com/chernobyl-fungus-appears-to-have-evolved-an-incredible-ability -
#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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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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In #Arizona, a fight against a deadly #fungus is under threat from #Trump’s health policies
What one doctor’s quest to stop #ValleyFever says about America’s preparedness for climate-driven disease.
by Zoya Teirstein, October 2, 2025
Excerpt: "Valley fever is endemic to southern #WashingtonState, #Oregon, #California, #Nevada, #Utah, #NewMexico, #Texas, and parts of #CentralAmerica and #SouthAmerica, but nowhere are cases of the disease more common than in Arizona. After Arizona started mandatory laboratory reporting for valley fever in 1997, registered cases ticked up and down. But the number began trending upward dramatically in 2016. Then, in 2024, cases in the state exploded, hitting their second-highest total ever. More than 15,000 infections were reported — a 37 percent increase over 2023. California, which runs just behind Arizona in its annual valley fever caseload, registered a record-breaking 12,637 cases in 2024, representing a 39 percent increase over the previous year, which had already smashed a record set in 2019.
"Some portion of the rise in reported cases represents growing awareness among physicians and an associated surge in testing. The pace of new construction in #UntouchedAreas also plays a role.
"But the recent increase in cases has been so dramatic, Galgiani and other researchers across the West who study the fungus think another factor may be driving the trend: #supersoaker winter #monsoons followed by scorching summer #heat and #drought, a cycle made more intense by #ClimateChange.
"Because warmer air holds more moisture, monsoons and other major rainfall events pull in larger quantities of water vapor and produce heavier downpours as the planet warms. This physical fact has fueled a spate of #MonsterFloods across the U.S. and around the world in recent years. But the same warmth can conversely lead to drought by making the atmosphere 'thirstier,' or capable of absorbing more water from the land’s surface. Both conditions facilitate the spread of valley fever — the wetter conditions by encouraging growth of the #spores, and the drier by facilitating desiccation and soil disturbance.
" 'The main driver for us is certainly this very clear association for #coccidioides between heavy precipitation cycles followed by drought,' said George Thompson, a professor of medicine at the University of California, Davis, School of Medicine who specializes in #FungalDiseases.
"And it’s not just valley fever that may increase its spread thanks to climate change. Peer reviewed research shows that fungal threats of all kinds are poised to emerge and thrive in a warming world."
https://grist.org/health/valley-fever-arizona-fungus-climate-change/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
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Uromyces valerianae ex Valeriana officinalis agg.
#Uromycesvalerianae #Uromyces #Valerianaofficinalis #Baldrian #Valerian #Valériane #rust #rustfungus #rost #rostpilz #mushroom #mushrooms #fungus #fungi #pilz #pilze #champignons #champignon #nature #natur #Phytopathology #FungiFriends
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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
