singingtotheplants:

Really enjoying reading this book on ethnomycology at the moment. I would recommend it to any fellow mycophile.

http://www.apsnet.org/apsstore/shopapspress/Pages/43955.aspx

steepravine:

Golden Amanita

This Amanita was literally a shiny golden color. I’ve never seen an organic object look so metallic before.

(Point Reyes, California - 2013)

unknown-endangered:

Chorioactis geaster

Chorioactis geaster is found only in a few locations in Texas, where it is called the Texas star, and Japan, where it is known as kirinomitake ( キリノミタケ). The fruiting body grows as a tube, before it splits into four to seven rays, in a process called dehiscence. The inner surface is covered with spore-producing tissue called the hymenium, which can be coloured white to brown.

museumpilgrimeats:

Treasures found at Central Market in Florence. Four different kinds of organic mushrooms, arranged into knee-high mountains. And fresh, marinated garlic cloves. Yum!

lichenloglichenblog:

I admit I am a poo stasher. When walking, I stash the poo bag and pick it up on the way back. Once last summer I was convinced that someone had picked it up for me because I couldn’t find it where I was certain I had stashed it, only to find it the next day under a totally different shrub….

unknown-endangered:

Hygrocybe lanecovensis

Endangered under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act)

Hygrocybe lanecovensis is found only in Lane Cove Bushland Park, Sydney, Australia. The fungi of this genus are commonly called waxcaps,  due to their waxy or slimy fruiting bodies. 

This species is threatened by polluted water, litter, and invasive plant species. The disturbance of the forest understorey where H. lanecovensis grows by cultivated plants may also be a threat.

H. lanecovensis is protected under the EPBC Act. However, it is in danger of becoming extinct unless measures are introduced to reduce the impact of the factors threatening it.

wapiti3:

Agaricus albo-cyaneus-(Stropharia pseudocyanea Slim verdigris agaric) on Flickr.

FUNGUS. Kops et al., J., Flora Batava, vol. 21: t. 1644 (1901).
source-Karl Stueber

sharkchunks:

Wikipedia’s article of the day is on the “Phallus Indusiatus”, latin for “Penis wearing an undergarment” apparently.

reishirich:

#reishi #differentiation #fungi #fungus #mushroom

lichenloglichenblog:

I have a Stewartia in my north bed which is forever looking like it is on its last branch. Each year I look at it, swaddled in lichen and hope for life and each year I am rewarded by new leaves poking out of the ends of branches that look like this:

and this:

I am not a decider,…