Nature, Mushrooms, & Chaos

I’m just a trans, neuro-spicy, queer, fun-guy who loves fungi. Also nature is dope. (he/they)

[furmity]

Bathroom mushrooms round 2

Excuse the dog hair.

[moe-mycelium]

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!

[herpsandbirds]

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

[camp-otter]

Miniature Landscape

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

[faerieofthebog]

gorgeous gorgeous girls love mycelium ❤️🍄

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

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🥰

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

[frailbug]

i am so easily impressed by trees

[markscherz]

Allow this alpine newt eft to clean your dash

[frog-o-mine]

Orange jelly spots.

[moe-mycelium]

Budder

[moe-mycelium]

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.

[rebeccathenaturalist]

'Plant-mycorrhiza synergy' can revitalize forest restoration

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.

[emberleesblog]

✨️🍄Mushies 🍄✨️

[freakyfungi]

mushrooms are SO fuckin cool but they're so underrated y'all are missing out they are SO awesome

[boy-and-girl-crazy123456]

It's crazy how giant squids and sperm whales just have like giant kaiju battles down in the deepest depths everyday and it's real

[creaturepost-emporium]

He even ate up the yawning pic

[toadbreath]

forgor his pants. how embarrassing

[moe-mycelium]

Actually I think that’d be his shirt and hat because the molt in front of him is of his upper half (you can see the antenna shape in the molt)

[moe-mycelium]

Dryad’s Saddle!! (Cerioporus Squamosus)

The other common name is a Pheasant Back Mushroom, which is derived from the patterning, while the name Dryad’s Saddle comes from the old folk tale that fairies (dryads) would sit on these mushrooms.

The young versions of this mushroom are edible, but older specimens will get tough and indigestible. (This post does not serve as your identification guide, don’t eat random shroomies if you aren’t 100% sure what they are)

They’re parasitic or saprotrophic, in this case, the specimen was saprotrophic because it was gaining nutrients from the decaying log.

Shroomies are so fun!

[4gifs]

[socially-awkward-supervillian]

Fun fact: Cheetahs only attack prey that runs

[youwinagainmoffat-blog]

jesus that is good to know.

[chandra75-deactivated20180905]

Yup, that’s the point you just stay still and let it do whatever the fuck it wants that doesn’t involved you getting eaten. 

[magehenry-moved-blog]

REALLY FUN FACT for big cats cheetahs are fucking docile as shit

my grandfather ran a cheetah sanctuary in south africa and he’d just lie with them and sleep among them and they’d rub against him and chirp at him they’re big fucking babies

[pkmnbreederbrianna]

Another Fun Fact: Cheetahs are incredibly nervous animals. One of the (many) reason’s they’re going extinct is that cheetahs are so sensitive and nervous, some of them are literally too nervous to breed. Others will breed, but stress themselves out so much, they’ll lose their cubs. So zoos with breeding programs had to figure out how to make cheetahs comfortable enough to first of all, get laid and secondly - not spazz themselves into miscarrying. So what’d they do? They gave the cheetah’s their very own Service Dogs! The dogs make them feel safe, protected and secure!

[emo-islandniles]

AJHHHHFDDGHH SO PRECIOUS

[renirabbit]

this post just got so much better

[enjoying-nudiustertian-deactiva]

THIS IS OFFICIALLY MY FAVOURITE POST

[wylltingtrees]

[sashayed]

this is emmett and cullen they are best friends

[clover11-10]

This is the greatest thing I’ve seen all day.

Dogs are truly angels.

[oshiawaseni]

so THATS why these cheetah ft dogo pics exist

[erin-luci-and-me]

the anxiety cat

[peppermint-madness]

Also! Cheetahs are not in fact classified as big cats, they are simply very large lesser cats, due to the fact that they purr, meow, chirp, and cannot roar. Also many cheetahs have learned to recognize wildlife photographers are friends and not foes, so they will just come up to people and be friendly occasionally as pictured at the top of the chain. Some will even leave their Cubs with photographers to look after while they hunt. So. Yeah. Cheetahs are great

[elfwreck]

[bunjywunjy]

this works because cheetahs are actually fairly social animals, and they look to members of their group for context on how worried they should be about any given Situation. but since cheetahs are also nervous social animals, they can work each other into an anxiety spiral pretty easily over things like “being in an enclosed habitat” and “there’s a guy over there”.

so by introducing a dog as a member of the group, the cheetahs will now look to the dog for context clues on how worried they should be! and the dog Is Not Worried At All, Thanks, so the cheetahs think everything must be chill even if they were personally unsure about it, and they stop being so freaked out about literally everything.

[june-egbert-official]

Cheetah: oh god what’s going on how are we feeling weird spotless cheetah

Dog: :) fine, thanks

Cheetah: :) oh, okay

[greatlordfluffernutter]