it's mushroom time, baby!

just a fungus friend

[sioltach]

Field Bird's Nest Fungus (Cyathus olla) imagines a world where fields are teeming with 1 inch tall birds making itty bitty nests

[jetix]

Fully grown Ganoderma tsugae on Hemlock trees, 2019

[pnglove]

© minilalabelle on x/twitter

[littleorangemushrooms]

About 26 hours in the life of a fruiting Stemonitis chocolate tube slime mold, the weirdest of weird little folks.

[mycosprite]

Bleeding Fairy Helmet Mycena haematopus

[oorchidblood]

Instantly reblog these springtails

[loish]

It’s mushroom season 🍄🍄🍄

[seabeck]

Orange chrysomphalina, Tacoma, WA

[hexandbalances]

Mushroom Medley with Reindeer Lichen by Jill Bliss.

[ivytea]

FUNGAL INKS — shaggy inkcap & fly agaric

[livingstills]

[lindagoesmushrooming]

Armillaria mellea

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Honestly bizarre that tomatoes get all the flack for “not being a vegetable” because they're technically a fruit when:

A) There are a ton of fruits that get categorised as vegetables. Like this also applies to pumpkins, squashes and cucumbers.

B) The fucking mushrooms are standing there at the back of the crowd in this witch trial, trying to look inconspicuous because they somehow got into the vegetable club with no fucking controversy despite the fact that they're not even plants.

[mortimermcmirestinks]

"technically tomatoes are fruits--" THAT MUSHROOM OVER THERE IS MORE CLOSELY RELATED TO A FUCKING SHIH TZU THAN IT IS TO LITERALLY ANY PLANT

[teaboot]

@mortimermcmirestinks

[mortimermcmirestinks]

IS THAT FANART?

[teaboot]

it’s a warning

[adequately]

버섯 가챠 퀄리티 너무 좋다..

[mosaicarray]

up at night thinking about slime mold altruism

[mosaicarray]

ooooo guess what i found in the slides! it’s open access! @mushroom-punk

Fruiting bodies of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum increase spore transport by Drosophila - BMC Ecology and Evolution

Background Many microbial phenotypes are the product of cooperative interactions among cells, but their putative fitness benefits are often

[mushroom-punk]

hurray! thank you!

[colorsoutofearth]

Green Elfcup Fungus (Chlorociboria aeruginascens)

Photos by Alex Hyde

[lichenaday]

Pulchrocladia ferdinandii

Lacy coral lichen, Biblically-accurate-angel lichen (I made this one up)

Almost forgot that this is the whole point. This fruticose lichen is endemic to southern Australia, where it grows on dry, sandy or acidic soils. It grows in large cushions (15 cm tall, 75 cm wide) of rigid, perforate pseudopodetia. It is whitish-cream to yellowish in color, and isn't known to produce apothecia, but produces globose pycnidia on the irregularly-branching, tips of the pseudopodetia. The official description of this lichen refers to it as "horny," which I am choosing to believe refers to the horn-like structure of the thallus, not to its desire to jump some bones. But if I am mistaken, go off, queen, you can get it. P. ferdinandii looks similar to sister-species P. retipora, but is overall larger, and prefers dryer habitats than the latter. And before you ask no, we don't know why it looks like this, so let's just appreciate that it does and that we are blessed to be able to see it.

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