#fungus — Public Fediverse posts
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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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///blotting.embedded.surreal
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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 -
The article linked here is about the #blackcolored #fungus #Cladosporium #sphaerospermum, one of several species found to thrive in the #radioactive environment of #Chernobyl. Experiments in space have demonstrated that the fungus is not particularly sensitive to #cosmicradiation; however, the hypothesis of energy-generating #radiosynthesis is not yet sufficiently substantiated.
©#StefanFWirthReference
M. Starr (2026):
https://www.sciencealert.com/this-chernobyl-fungus-seems-to-have-evolved-an-incredible-ability#Photo
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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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#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.
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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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Mushrooms As Computer Memory - Fungi make up a massive, interconnected part of Earth’s ecosystems, yet they’re va... - https://hackaday.com/2025/10/28/mushrooms-as-computer-memory/ #chemistryhacks #memristor #mushroom #mycelium #research #shiitake #fungus #memory #ram
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A peacocks tail of Honey fungus (Armillaria sp.)
County Clare, Ireland.Cormacscoast.com walking tours
#Wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #Fungus #honeyfungus #mushrooms #Ireland
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Honey Fungus (Armillaria mellea) mushrooms in abundance on the forest floor and on tree trunks this Autumn.
County Clare, Ireland.Cormacscoast.com walking tours
#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #biodiversity #mushrooms #Fungus #honeyfungus #Ireland
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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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Golovinomyces ambrosiae ex Artemisia vulgaris
#Artemisiavulgaris #Artemisia #Beifuß #mugwort #Armoisecommune #Artemisiacomune #Golovinomycesambrosiae #Golovinomyces #EchterMehltau #PowderyMildew #Phytopathology #FungiFriends #Fungus #Fungi #Pilze #Pilz #Nature #Natur
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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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This beautiful gall is made by the fungus, Rhytisma americanum. The common name is "American tar spot" to differentiate it from the other two members of the genus (in North America) that parasitize maples. The others are not nearly as pretty. 3/5 #GallWeek2025 #gall #galls #inaturalist #acer #maples #fungus #fungi
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Uromyces phaseoli ex Phaseolus vulgaris
#Phaseolus #Phaseolusvulgaris #Gartenbohne #CommonBean #Haricot #fagiolocomune #alubia #Uromycesphaseoli #Uromyces #Uromycesappendiculatus #Rostpilz #Rustfungus #mushroom #mushrooms #fungus #fungi #pilz #champignon #nature #natur #FungiFriends #Phytopathology
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Thecaphora oxalidis ex Oxalis stricta
#Oxalisstricta #Oxalis #AufrechterSauerklee #Sauerklee #yellowwoodsorrel #acederilla #smut #smutfungus #brand #brandpilz #thecaphora #thecaphoraoxalidis #mushroom #mushrooms #fungus #fungi #pilz #pilze #champignons #champignon #nature #PhytoPathology #FungiFriends
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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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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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Gymnosporangium clavariiforme ex Crataegus sp.
#Gymnosporangiumclavariiforme #Gymnosporangium #rust #rustfungus #rostpilz #rost #Crataegus #Weißdorn #hawthorn #Aubépine #mushroom #mushrooms #fungus #fungi #pilz #pilze #champignons #champignon #nature #natur #Phytopathology #FungiFriends
