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) @alice@lgbtqia.spaceMmm, bear bread...
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Black fungus in space is almost everywhere. This is just a little brother, there is even a more dangerous Big Brother out in space.
#fungi #Space #nasa #threats
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Bacterial operons may persist in eukaryotes (e.g. fungi) after horizontal gene transfer, according to Kogay et al. Operon-derived gene pairs suggest initial neutral retention and later functional integration or degeneration.
Introducing the New Zealand Bush Boba!
We found this pretty orange fungus last week during our survey of Mount Grand Station near Lake Hāwea, as part of the #LincolnUniversityNZ Masters-level Conservation Biology course.
The fungus is in the genus Heterotextus (thanks to Jerry Cooper on #iNaturalist for the ID). It doesn't seem to have had a common name, at least not until now. The students have declared it NZ Bush Boba, and I reckon that's good.
@User47@vmst.ioPSA: Missouri Dept of Conservarion is holding a virtual mushroom hunting webinar this Saturday. I believe this is just for residents of Missouri. Looks pretty darn cool. LOVE the MDC learning stuff. Missourians are so lucky to have a great conservation department.
https://mdc-event-web.s3licensing.com/Event/EventDetails/205674 #mushroomhunting #fungi #milf (man I love fungi) #missouri #conservation
@User47@vmst.ioMILF- Man, I like fungi.
- Coolest bumper sticker I've seen in a while. LOVE IT.
Leucocoprinus cretaceus
https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Leucocoprinus_cretaceus.html
Ecology: Saprobic; growing alone, in groups, or in loose clusters in potted plants, greenhouses, planters, and so on; appearing year-round; North American distribution uncertain, but apparently uncommon, and more likely to appear in tropical and subtropical areas. The illustrated and described collections are from California and Florida.
Cap: 2-8 cm; roundish or blocky and subcylindric when young, expanding to convex or nearly flat; dry; white; covered with small, wart-like scales.
Gills: Free from the stem; close or crowded; short-gills frequent; white.
Stem: 3-8 cm long; 5-10 mm thick; with a moderately swollen base; covered with soft scales like those on the cap; white; with a fragile, white ring; basal mycelium white; attached to white rhizomorphs.
Flesh: White; unchanging when sliced.
Odor: Not distinctive.
Spore Print: Reported as white to creamy.
Microscopic Features: Spores 6-12 x 4-7 m; subamygdaliform to ellipsoid; smooth; with a small pore; thick-walled; hyaline to slightly yellowish in KOH; dextrinoid. Basidia 4-sterigmate. Pavement cells present. Cheilocystidia 35-75 x 7.5-15 m; widely cylindric to widely fusiform or subcapitate; smooth; occasionally with refractive apical encrustations; thin-walled; hyaline in KOH. Pleurocystidia not found. Pileipellis a densely interwoven cutis of hyaline to yellowish, smooth elements 5-7.5 m wide; terminal cells occasionally cylindric but more often with branches and outgrowths, often forming shapes suggestive of letters or letter pieces, these elements 4-10+ m wide, smooth, occasionally with walls up to 1 m thick, hyaline in KOH, fragmenting.
#mushrooms #fungi #mycology #shrooms #mushtodon #sporespondence #floraspondence
Inoculating the Odd in AuDHD @pixouls@post.lurk.orgYesterday, I helped co-lead my first mushroom walk hosted by the Discovery Center in Philadelphia. It was cold and rainy, but we still had a decent turn out of 20-ish people? I haven't worked much with my co- before, but I'm thankful that it went well, and the host organizer was very easy to work with too. We walked along a path that I had had a chance to scope out a month earlier, which was really helpful as someone not as confident about leading trails. The practice run with her made me realize I might know more than I expected- at least enough for the purposes of the event. It was hard to find specimens in the cold, but not impossible, including wood ears and oysters. I think people who attended had a good time and got to come away with some good fungi fun facts like how it's safe to touch mushrooms or how to use iNaturalist. I'm really thankful for this opportunity.
#sporespondence #fungiverse #mushtodon #fungi #mushrooms #communityScience
Rickenella fibula
https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Rickenella_fibula.html
Ecology: Probably saprobic but apparently involved in some sort of mutualism with moss; growing alone, scattered, or gregariously in moss beds; spring through fall, or over winter in warm climates; widely distributed in North America. The illustrated and described collections are from Illinois.
Cap: 2-10 mm across; blocky or squarish at first, becoming convex, then broadly convex, with or without a shallow central depression; tacky when fresh but soon dry; bald or, with a hand lens, very finely hairy; the margin translucent-lined by maturity; orange with a whitish margin when fresh and young; soon fading to yellowish orange overall, with a darker orange center.
Gills: Running deeply down the stem; distant or nearly so; short-gills in several tiers; creamy or very pale orange.
Stem: 5-45 mm long; 0.5-1.5 mm thick; equal; dry; bald; colored like the cap; basal mycelium white.
Flesh: Insubstantial; pale.
Odor and Taste: Not distinctive
Chemical Reactions: KOH negative on cap surface.
Spore Print: White.
Microscopic Features: Spores 3-4 x 1.5-2.5 m; ellipsoid; smooth; hyaline and 1- to 3-guttulate in KOH; inamyloid. Cheilocystidia and pleurocystidia 25-40 x 5-7.5 m; fusiform with tapered or subcapitate apices; thin-walled; hyaline in KOH; smooth. Pileipellis a tightly packed cutis with numerous pileocystidia 50-100 x 7.5-12.5 m, fusiform with wide bases and tapered, subcapitate, or capitate apices, thin-walled, smooth, hyaline in KOH.
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Xylaria hypoxylon
https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Xylaria_hypoxylon.html
Ecology: Saprobic on the deadwood of hardwoods; growing gregariously to densely gregariously; spring through fall; by strict definitions (see discussion above) distributed in Europe and the West Coast of the United States, but (mis)reported as widely distributed in North America from Canada through Mexico—and in Central America, the Caribbean, South America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania. The illustrated and described collections are from California.
Anamorphic Fruiting Body: 2-10 cm long; 2-15 mm thick; either narrowly cylindric, with a pointy apex—or cylindric below but branched and flattened above, appearing somewhat like moose antlers, with tapering points on most branches; surface black and slightly fuzzy below, but powdery and gray to nearly white above; extreme apex attenuated, whitish to yellowish, and bald; sometimes with a rooting, black, stem-like structure; interior flesh white and tough.
Teleomorphic Fruiting Body: Shaped like the anamorphic fruiting body; surface black, bald, and finely pimply.
Odor: Not distinctive.
Microscopic Features: Conidia 5-11 x 2-3 m; fusiform; smooth; hyaline in water and in KOH. Spores 13-16 x 5-6 m; subfusoid to subellipsoid; smooth; brown to dark brown in water, with a single, straight germ slit extending the length of the spore. Asci 8-spored.
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@tobiaspatton@cosocial.caGyromitra esculenta.
A common fungus on southern Vancouver Island in early spring. Guidebooks list it as "toxic" and there have been fatalities recorded from consumption. The primary toxin, gyromitrin, is water soluble so boiling the mushrooms and discarding the water removes most of the toxin. But, gyromtrin hydrolyzes to monomethylhydrazine (aka rocket fuel) that is toxic when inhaled. So prepare them outside or in a room with good ventilation.
