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Forest fungi. #Photography #fungi

Russula dissimulans

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Russula_dissimulans.html

Ecology: Mycorrhizal with hardwoods or conifers; growing alone, scattered, or gregariously; summer and fall (and over winter in warm climates); widely distributed in North America.

Cap: 5-20 cm; broadly convex when young, later flat with a central depression, or shallowly vase-shaped; dry; more or less smooth, but with a waxy feel; initially whitish but soon discoloring to brownish, ashy gray, or brown (eventually almost black); the margin not lined; the skin not peeling easily.

Gills: Attached or running very slightly down the stem; thick; distant or nearly so; white to cream; bruising and discoloring slowly reddish, then grayish to blackish.

Stem: 3-8 cm long; 1-4 cm thick; whitish at first, but soon darkening like the cap; bruising reddish, then blackish over the course of as much as half an hour; fairly smooth.

Flesh: White; hard; bruising promptly or slowly reddish on exposure, then blackish over the course of as much as half an hour or more.

Odor and Taste: Odor slightly fragrant, somewhat unpleasant, or not distinctive; taste mild, slightly acrid, or acrid.

Chemical Reactions: KOH on cap surface negative. Iron salts on stem surface negative to weakly grayish.

Spore Print: White.

Microscopic Features: Spores 6-11 x 6-9 ; widely elliptical to subglobose; with ornamentation under 1 high, connectors forming partially to completely reticulate areas. Pileipellis <NOBR>20-150 </NOBR> thick; cutis-like, with horizontal elements, tightly interwoven; in KOH "with globules of brown
pigment giving them the appearance of transparent intestines" (Roberts, 2008); not embedded in a gelatinous matrix; pileocystidia absent.

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Nice looking mushroom poking through the eucalyptus leaves #fungifriends #fungi #mushrooms #nensw

Cyathus olla

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Cyathus_olla.html

Ecology: Saprobic; growing scattered, gregariously, or in dense clusters; sometimes growing terrestrially, but often found on woody debris; frequently encountered on dead plant stems, including corn husks in cornfields and debris in canola fields; summer and fall; widely distributed in North America.

Nest: 8-15 mm high; 6-10 mm wide; cup-shaped or goblet-shaped; outer surface brownish to grayish, bald or minutely hairy to velvety (but not conspicuously hairy); inner surface bald and shiny, silvery gray to blackish; "lid" typically whitish to pale grayish, soon disappearing; outer edge flared open widely by maturity, frequently broadly wavy.

Eggs: To 3 or 4 mm wide; round to somewhat irregular in outline; usually somewhat flattened; gray to gray-brown or nearly black; sheathed; attached to the nest by cords.

Microscopic Features: Spores 10-14 x 6-8 m; ovate to ellipsoid; smooth.

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fungi galore!

#Hiking #BloomScrolling #Fungi #SFBayArea

shy guy #MidlifeCrisis me chose the #SelfCare and #Positivity and #GreenTherapy short #Walkabout route to dealing with the world today, which here i will share with you in a few pictures...

#Introvert #Unsecular #Hiking #BloomScrolling #Fungi #Flowers #NotPeople #SFBayArea

From Today's eBike Ride

Canon R7 Mirrorless - Canon EF-S 18-135mm Lens

#Photo #Photography #Cherries #Flowers #Periwinkle #Fungi #MILC #Mirrorless #CanonR7 #GiMP

Calvatia cyathiformis

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Calvatia_cyathiformis.html

Ecology: Saprobic; growing alone, scattered, gregariously, or in fairy rings in grass (lawns, golf courses, parks, pastures, etc.); summer and fall; widely distributed in North America, but possibly absent on the West Coast. The illustrated and described collections are from Illinois and Qu&#233;bec.

Fruiting Body: 8-17 cm high and 8-20 cm wide when mature; ball-shaped when young, but soon developing a thick basal portion that is slightly more narrow than the upper portion; at maturity usually shaped like an inverted pear or a loaf of bread.

Outer Surface: Tan to pale brown; the pigment breaking up into small, mosaic-like scales; eventually becoming very pale brown to grayish or nearly white, with a vague mosaic of sections punctuated by brownish dots; dry; the skin 1-2 mm thick.

Interior: White and firm when young; soon becoming two-chambered texturally, with the basal portion distinct from the upper portion; upper portion becoming yellowish and finally deep brownish purple as it matures and turns into spore dust; basal portion turning yellowish, then olive with age.

Over-Mature Specimens: After the top ruptures and the spore mass is dispersed, the sterile base can remain, cup-like, with a ragged upper edge, for weeks.

Odor and Taste: Not distinctive.

Chemical Reactions: KOH negative on outer surface.

Spore Dust: Purple.

Microscopic Features: Spores 3-6 m (including ornamentation); globose; covered with spines 0.5-1 m long; hyaline in KOH; brownish in Melzer's reagent. Capillitial threads 2-5 m wide; walls about 0.5 m thick; hyaline in KOH; smooth or very minutely pitted; a little narrowed at septa.

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Cleaning up some of the yard yesterday and ran across these Birds Nest fungi for the first time. Only one had the little “eggs”.
#fungi

Lichen; net, 2025.

An experiment in combining separate embroideries into one piece.

#LichenSubscribe #Lichen #Embroidery #MachineEmbroidery #Textile #Textileart #Art #FineArt #Moss #Mosstodon #Nature #FibreArt #Thread #Sculpture #Fungi #Artist #ContemporaryEmbroidery #ContemporaryArt #Arte #Artwork #ArtistsOnMastodon

The mash-up you didn’t know you needed.

Common Greenshield lichen
Orange Jelly mushrooms

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Leucocoprinus fragilissimus

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Leucocoprinus_fragilissimus.html

Ecology: Saprobic; growing alone or scattered, in humus; summer; distributed in the southeastern United States, from Texas to the southern Appalachians; also reported from Costa Rica. The illustrated and described collection is from Ohio.

Cap: 1.5-4.5 cm across; planoconvex, becoming nearly flat, with a small central bump; very fragile, and soon collapsing; deeply grooved from the margin to the center; dry or moist; pale greenish yellow, with a slightly darker center; fading to nearly white, with a yellowish center.

Gills: Free from the stem; distant; pale yellow; often dissolving in hot weather.

Stem: 4-9 cm long; 1-2 mm thick; equal above a small basal bulb; exceedingly fragile; bald; pale yellow, fading to nearly white; with a thin, fragile, yellow ring that sometimes disappears.

Flesh: Insubstantial; yellowish.

Odor: Not distinctive.

Chemical Reactions: KOH negative on cap surface.

Spore Print: White.

Microscopic Features: Spores 9-12 x 7-8 ; broadly ellipsoid; with a large (2 ) pore at one end, creating a sublimoniform impression; smooth; hyaline in KOH; dextrinoid. Brachybasidioles abundant in young caps. Pleurocystidia absent. Cheilocystidia clavate; soon collapsing. Pileipellis cellular/hymeniform; terminal elements subglobose, 15-25 wide, hyaline in KOH.

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#NewSpecies
A newly discovered fungus from #china for #FungiFriday:

Mycena fulvomarginata

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7DAF3517-1E75-583A-ACF3-829A9CE36650
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.115.144137
#MycoKeys #MycenaFulvomarginata

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #fungi #mushrooms #mycology

#Throwback to last year when I found these yummy Chicken of the Woods mushrooms.
They are bright and easily identifiable.
Emma was curious, but did not try to eat any.. Her humans, on the other hand, harvested several, fried them up, and consumed them. Yummy.
#FungiFriday
#fungi
#dog
#dogsofmastodon

Laccaria proxima

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Laccaria_proxima.html

Ecology: Mycorrhizal with pines (Pinus species), especially in young plantations; growing scattered or gregariously; summer and fall; widely distributed in North America.

Cap: 1.5-7 cm; convex, becoming flat and sometimes uplifted; the margin inrolled at first, later straight and not lined; at first finely roughened, later more prominently roughened or scaly; reddish brown to orange-brown.

Gills: Attached to the stem; distant or nearly so; pinkish flesh color.

Stem: 2.5-8 cm long; up to 1 cm thick; equal or with an enlarged base; finely or prominently hairy and fibrous-shaggy; colored like the cap (sometimes with a darker base); with white basal mycelium.

Flesh: Thin; colored like the cap or paler.

Odor and Taste: Not distinctive.

Chemical Reactions: KOH negative on cap surface.

Spore Print: White.

Microscopic Features: Spores 8-11 x 7-9 ; elliptical; spines mostly 0.5-1 long. Basidia 4-spored. Cheilocystidia filamentous to subclavate or subcapitate; to about 70 x 10 . Pileipellis a cutis of elements 5-10 wide, with occasional or frequent bundles of upright elements; terminal cells subclavate to capitate.

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#elephants #fungi #buildings #green

'In laboratory experiments, the scientists found that the cooling rate of their elephant skin-inspired mycelium tile was 25 per cent better than a fully flat mycelium tile, and the heating rate was 2 per cent lower.

They also found that the elephant skin-inspired tile’s cooling effect improved a further 70 per cent in simulated rain conditions, making it suitable for tropical climates.'

https://www.ntu.edu.sg/docs/default-source/corporate-ntu/hub-news/ntu-singapore-scientists-create-fungi-tiles-with-elephant-skin-texture-to-cool-buildings.pdf

#Newswire: Cell-cultured meat technology company CellX has obtained GRAS status from the FDA for its morel mushroom mycelium ingredient, and has unveiled its B2C brand, Mourish, along with its first product: a mushroom jerky featuring the ingredient.

#fungi #microbial #meat #ingredients #protein #mycoprotein #biotech #foodtech #innovation #newproducts #pressrelease

https://www.proteinreport.org/newswire/cellx-achieves-gras-status-morel-mushroom-mycelium-launches-high-protein-mycelium-snacks-b2c-brand-mourish-mushrooms-nourish/