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  1. What fresh mycological hell is this?

    Edit: It is genus Peziza, a saprophytic cup fungus….

    #fungi #mycology #mycodon #mushroom #gardening

  2. Hallo #mycodon and #FungiFriday folks - what's a good 1st-year undergraduate level general text on fungi?

  3. Hallo #mycodon and #FungiFriday folks - what's a good 1st-year undergraduate level general text on fungi?

  4. Garden 🧵

    Checking on the state of this year's mushroom crop! Looks like the mycelium has come through the winter nicely.

    Plus, already starting to get some babies on one log.

    From the left:

    1️⃣ Awkwardly, I don't remember what I inoculated this log with. I think it might be maitake.

    2️⃣ This is either blue or elm oyster (pleurotus, not hypsizygus) mushroom mycelium.

    Okay, wow. Apparently, I really need to figure out how to label the logs.

    3️⃣ Thankfully, there's no mistaking stropharia rugosoannulata mycelium. Lifted a rock and some leaves to find it overwintered beautifully.

    4️⃣ Chestnut mushroom sawdust seems to have fared well under a cloche.

    #GardenerStadon #mushtodon #mycodon #ContainerGardening #MushroomMonday

  5. Garden 🧵

    Checking on the state of this year's mushroom crop! Looks like the mycelium has come through the winter nicely.

    Plus, already starting to get some babies on one log.

    From the left:

    1️⃣ Awkwardly, I don't remember what I inoculated this log with. I think it might be maitake.

    2️⃣ This is either blue or elm oyster (pleurotus, not hypsizygus) mushroom mycelium.

    Okay, wow. Apparently, I really need to figure out how to label the logs.

    3️⃣ Thankfully, there's no mistaking stropharia rugosoannulata mycelium. Lifted a rock and some leaves to find it overwintered beautifully.

    4️⃣ Chestnut mushroom sawdust seems to have fared well under a cloche.

    #GardenerStadon #mushtodon #mycodon #ContainerGardening #MushroomMonday

  6. Zoom (who got her name before the pandemic, before zoom the company even existed!) was feeling a little left out, so here's her submission to #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfMosstodon. Technically I'm not sure there's any visible moss in this picture, but Zoom is standing on a mushroom, so I think that counts as #mosstodon? Or maybe #mycodon?

  7. Zoom (who got her name before the pandemic, before zoom the company even existed!) was feeling a little left out, so here's her submission to #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfMosstodon. Technically I'm not sure there's any visible moss in this picture, but Zoom is standing on a mushroom, so I think that counts as #mosstodon? Or maybe #mycodon?

  8. #MycologyMonday

    Happy Monday everyone!

    Todays #fungifind is Candlesnuff Fungus! (Xylaria hypoxylon) 🍄

    The candlesnuff fungus, also known as the 'Stag's Horn', has an erect, simple or forked fruiting body with a downy stalk. It grows in groups on dead and rotting wood, and can be found on stumps and branches of all sorts of trees.

    Top tip: By keeping dead wood in your garden, you can encourage all kinds of fungi to grow, including Candlesnuff Fungus, which in turn attracts the wildlife that depends upon it.

    #fungioftheday #candlesnuff #candlesnufffungus #fungi #mushroom #nature #mastodonmushrooms #mastodon #mastoart #mycodon #mosstodon #mycology #fungiverse #fungus #mushroomsofmastodon #nature
    #fungifacts #mushrooms #plants #fungikingdom #mastodonmushroom

  9. Saturday #Sponge day!

    Check out these beautiful Boletes that have sponge like pores instead of gills!

    Almost all members of the larger Boletaceae family have pores or tubes instead of gills which make them an easy family to identify.

    There are about two hundred and fifty Boletes worldwide with about eighty identified in the UK which, with only a handful to avoid due to toxicity, leaves a good amount of edible mushrooms that can be safely identified for consumption.

    #fungioftheday #shaggyparasol #toadstool #fungi #mushroom #nature #tinderfungus #mastodonmushrooms #mastodon #mastoart #mycodon #bracket #mosstodon #mycology #fungiverse #fungus #mushroomsofmastodon #nature
    #fungifacts #mushrooms #plants #fungikingdom #mastodonmushroom #bolete #sponge #pores

  10. Good #evening everyone 🌙

    Todays #fungifind 🍄

    Deer Shield / Mushroom! (Pluteus cervinus)

    The Deer Shield is a #wood-rotting fungus that occurs mainly on hardwood #stumps. This fungus can appear at any time from late #spring through to late #autumn.

    Although its caps are usually fawn or light brown, like the coat of a young #deer (referred to as a 'fawn' regardless of its colour!), some authorities say that the common name comes not from the #brown colour of the #cap but from antler-like horn-shaped protrusions on apex of the gill-face #cystidia (known as pleurocystidia) that can be seen under a #microscope!

    #fungioftheday #deershield #wood #gills #horns #deermushroom #toadstool #fungi #mushroom #nature #deadwood #mastodonmushrooms #mastodon #mastoart #mycodon #bracket #mosstodon #mycology #fungiverse #fungus #mushroomsofmastodon #nature
    #fungifacts #mushrooms #plants #fungikingdom #mastodonmushroom

  11. Happy Sunday everyone! ☀️

    Todays #fungifind 🍄

The stages of a Shaggy Parasol! (Chlorophyllum rhacodes)

    A Shaggy Parasol is a #large, stocky mushroom with a #convex cap when mature. The cap’s surface has raised #brown scales, giving it a #shaggy look, further enhanced by the shaggy edge to the #rim.

    The shaggy parasol’s habit of #growing in rings, known as #fairy rings, has long been part of European #folklore. Some believe the #rings symbolised a place where #fairies, #pixies or #elves danced in the woods. Others believe that they were a #portal between the fairy world and the #human world!
    
On a side note, though #edible when cooked for some, I wouldn’t be #foraging this one for dinner because it can cause #severe gastric upset in 1 in 25 people!

#fungioftheday #shaggyparasol #toadstool #fungi #mushroom #nature #tinderfungus #mastodonmushrooms #mastodon #mastoart #mycodon #bracket #mosstodon #mycology #fungiverse #fungus #mushroomsofmastodon #nature
    #fungifacts #mushrooms #plants #fungikingdom #mastodonmushroom

  12. CW: Fungi creating zombie ants..!

    #funfact | Some fungi create #zombie ants. Yes, you read that right: zombie #ants! The fungus responsible is the Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, found deep in the #Amazon rainforest. This sinister #parasite infects the carpenter ant, growing through its body before eventually taking over its brain. It then compels the poor, hijacked #insect to leave its nest and climb to a nearby #plant – which just so happens to be in the perfect environmental conditions for fungus #growth.

    Here, over a number of days, it consumes the ant’s innards and sends a long #stalk through its head, growing into a capsule of #spores. These rain down on other unsuspecting victims, continuing the grim #cycle.
    #funfacts #fungifacts #fungi #ants #zombieants #mushrooms #plants #MushroomsOfMastodon #mastodon #MastoArt #fungikingdom #fungioftheday #bracket #mushroom #nature #mycodon #mosstodon #mycology #fungiverse #fungus #nature #mastodonmushroom

  13. #funfact | You can remove all the #birds and still have a #forest, but if you remove all the #fungi, the forest will #die.

    Fungi help #breakdown the #materials in the stressed and dead #trees as part of a complex #nutrient cycle that is vital to #regeneration and a healthy forested #ecosystem

    Without fungi to aid in #decomposition, all life in the #forest would soon be buried under a mountain of dead #plant matter.
    #funfacts #fungifacts #fungi #algae #mushrooms #plants #MushroomsOfMastodon #ancientalliances #history #mastodon #MastoArt #fungikingdom #fungioftheday #bracket #mushroom #nature #mycodon #mosstodon #mycology #fungiverse #fungus #nature #mastodonmushroom