shroomposting quarantine zone

[mycolocat]

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Main is @al-gatone

Posting will be fungus-focused but will also include slime molds, lichens, and the odd plant or bug when I am in the mood!

[taraxinium]

fairy ring in da garden #my celium

[screenshotsofdespair]

[myxomycota]

Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa by Sarah Lloyd

[seabeck]

Slime molds

[lichenaday]

Punctelia graminicola

I love learning about a member of a familiar genus I have yet to meet! P. graminicola grows on rocks, moss, and occasionally bark or burned wood at low elevations in North America down in South America. This foliose lichen has a wide, adnate to loosely attached thallus of narrow, sublinear lobes that are pale blue-gray to green-gray on the upper surface, and pale tan on the lower surface. As with other members of the genus, it has point-like or pore-like pseudoceyphellae (openings in the outer layer of the thallus to the inner medullary layer). What's really cool is that scientists actually studied the developmental physiology of these structures within the genus, and found that P. graminicola forms these structures by arranging the medullary hyphae in circular groups and pushing from the inner layer out, shoving the algal layer up, eventually bursting through the cortex, leaving a gaping hole into the lichen!

Ok maybe not "gaping" per se--they are really small. Why does it go through all this effort to form these pores? The prevailing theory is gas exchange for the photobiont layer during photosynthesis, but that likely is only part of the story, as not all lichens have pseudoceyphellae but all perform photosynthesis.

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[bugshroom]

the biggest basket fungus i have ever seen

[screenshotsofdespair]

[fox-bright]

do not taste plants if you don't know what they are

do not identify a fruit as edible just because it tastes sweet

hope you didn't eat any fucking seeds, bro

[fox-bright]

And today, we have this winner:

I saw the photo in my feed and went ohh, dude, no, we do not handle yellow rocks with our bare hands until we know for sure what they are. And I know that orange...

In comments, they continue:

and that's where I started cussing at the computer monitor. But someone else had got there first:

So just as a reminder, folks. If you don't know what it is, don't put it in your fucking mouth!

[fox-bright]

YOU GODDAMN STUPID MOTHERFUCKER

[mycolocat]

Don't munch on a hunch!

See also: /r/OopsThatsDeadly

[hometoursandotherstuff]

These striking red mushrooms are Ruby Bonnets (Cruentomycena viscidocruenta), which are not edible and do not taste like candy.

[seabeck]

Green gummy

[mycolocat]

Likely a parrot waxcap (Gliophorus psittacinus)

parrot waxcaps are generally considered "technically edible, but not worth it" due to their small size and unpleasant texture.

(do not eat any mushrooms based on the contents of this blog, or in fact on any random-ass website.)

[cartoonscientist]

things chronically outside people say:

“wait! gotta put on my sunscreen” [you’re about to walk to 7/11]

“tick season, tuck your pants”

“you know, tick season just keeps getting longer and longer with climate change”

“why didn’t you have your knife with you?”

[knocks their shoes on the sidewalk and fifty pounds of dirt clods fall off]

[going into the rain without an umbrella] “I mean, you’re gonna get wet eventually, right?”

“I hear the rockhounding in this part of the county is INSANE”

“it rained last night, and you know what that means: MUSHROOMS”

[avagarde]

It’s so unfair i don’t get to see where evolution will go in 50 million years

[geekysteven]

crab

[existennialmemes]

Crustaceans: Crab

Mammals: Weasel

Plants: Tree

Amphibians & Reptiles: Unchanged because they are perfect

Birds: 360° around back to dinosaurs

Fungi: I shan't speculate on the affairs of gods

[littlealienproducts]

Handmade Ceramic Mushroom Coffee Cup by castelida

[mycosprite]

Purple Brittlegill Russula atropurpurea

[todaysbird]

chicken of the woods

[mycotic-blog-deactivated2026060]

#020/365: imleria badia ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯

-> bay bolete / false cep / bay-brown bolete / bay-capped bolete

HABITAT: this bolete has been reported across europe, as well as in jordan, china, taiwan, canada, the US, & central mexico.

ECOLOGY: mycorrhizal, though with some saprophytic tendencies if the situation calls for it.

EDIBILITY: milder than true ceps, this mushroom is still considered choice by most, especially when properly cooked.

"the fruit bodies can be used to make mushroom dyes. depending on the mordant used, colours ranging from yellow, orange, gold, & green-brown can be obtained. without mordant, a yellow colour is produced."

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