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Pictures taken June 7, 2025

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✨Witchs’ butter✨

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Faux turkey tails

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Bathroom mushrooms round 2

Excuse the dog hair.

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I could be wrong because I don’t see any fully developed mushrooms, but from what I can see it looks like Leucocoprinus birnbaumii otherwise known as the flower pot parasol.

It commonly grows in plant pots, feeding on decomposing matter in the soil (it’s saprotrophic). It wont harm your plants, so no worries about leaving it!

Confirming the ID: The mushrooms look yellow enough to distinguish it from the related species Leucocoprinus straminellus, which has paler mushrooms.

The caps should open up to reveal yellow gills. Once they do, cut one off and leave it on dark paper in a sealed container for about 24 hours. It should leave a white spore print on the paper.

If you had access to a microscope, the spores would shaped like an ellipse or almond-like, and would contain a large germ pore (L. Straminellus lacks this pore).

Hope this helped!

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Ghost Fungus (Omphalotus nidiformis), GLOWING IN THE DARK!!!, family Omphalotaceae, Tasmania, Australia

As you may have noticed, this fungus is bioluminescent.

The normal coloring is whitish or brown.

Primarily distributed in southern Australia and Tasmania, but has occasionally been found elsewhere.

Grows on dead wood.

photograph by Frya

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Miniature Landscape

Tiny coral fungus growing on the forest floor, like little white trees in a miniature landscape.

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gorgeous gorgeous girls love mycelium ❤️🍄

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i am delighted to inform you of the existence of the Rosefinch, which is a real actual bird that exists!

I would like to add,, strawberry finches

They’re dating🥰

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i am so easily impressed by trees

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Allow this alpine newt eft to clean your dash

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Orange jelly spots.

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Budder

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Mmmm budder….

This is witches butter, scientific name: (Tremella mesenterica) which is a jelly fungus! It lives either as a saprotrophic fungi, but it can also grow in the crevices of wood bark (pictured above) after it rains.

There’s also a small lil baby turquoise fungus that I’m not sure of the identity of. I suspect it may be green elf cup, in the genus Chlorociboria, but I’m not certain. It would likely either be Chlorociboria aeruginascens or Chlorociboria aeruginosa which are both common and look macroscopically identical. They are both commonly referred to as the blue or green elf cup.

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As the world grapples with the intertwined challenges of global forest degradation and climate change, traditional forest restoration approa

We've known for decades now that the mycorrhizal network of fungal mycelium and plant roots is absolutely integral to the health of an ecosystem, both above and below the surface of the ground. Soil health depends on the work of decomposers breaking decaying matter down into its organic components, and on the addition of nitrogen by bacteria nestled in the roots of nitrogen-fixing plants. Plants, for their part, rely on their fungal partners to free up nutrients that would otherwise be inaccessible to them, and in return they give the fungi sugars created through photosynthesis.

This study, then, may seem like a redundancy to what we already know. However, it's important because it outlines the need for both ectomycorrhizal and arbuscular soil fungi, which connect with their plant partners in different ways, and the unique ways each fungal group benefits their local ecosystem. Moreover, it creates a concrete set of data we can point to when arguing that soil health and overall ecosystem biodiversity are necessary not only for habitat restoration, but climate resiliency.

The study also points out a particular methodology for inoculating a landscape with native mycorrhizal fungi. Maybe we won't see volunteer inoculation parties the way we have native planting parties, but if we have more information on how to correctly and effectively reintroduce native fungi to a damaged ecosystem, we may be able to boost the overall effects of habitat restoration.