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[18-04-25]

NORTH EAST, USA

UNIDENTIFIED MUSHROOMS

*I vocally reacted when I saw these! It's still so cold for mushrooms. These could be Agaricus sp. but I'm not at all sure. If I had the right things at the moment I would've take one of these home to examine it further.

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Photos taken August 25, 2024

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This is probably the largest wild spider I’ve ever seen. She’s guarding some skulls I have stockpiled under an old pond liner

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Red waxcaps

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Orange

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EMDM

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Mushroom fact of the Week!

Lichens are extremely durable, in 2005 NASA sent lichens to space to test how it stood up in the freezing cold vacuum. It was left outside in space for a period of time, and within 24 hours of rehydration had resumed all normal photosynthetic activity

Cross section of Xanthoria elegans, one of the two lichens sent to space!

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Alectoria vexillifera

Strapping witch's hair lichen

. . . I know what you all are going to do with this common name, and I cannot stop you (nor do I want to). But maybe *try* to actually appreciate the lichen that goes with it? Thank you, that is all I ask. This fruticose lichen grows in large, stringy, green-yellow bunches on gravel and heath in windy, arctic-alpine habitats. I often find it hear in the Icelandic highlands, looking like wild herds of loose spaghetti or piles of melted ramen noodles.

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Daily Fungi Fact 149: The lilac bonnet(Mycena pura) is a poisonous mushroom that is known to bioaccumulate boron, it smells like radishes. Some guides list the mushroom as edible, but it contains the toxin muscarine, which can cause cardiac arrest if administered into the veins, if consumed it can cause death in 8 to 9 hours, but that has only occurred in 5% of reported cases of muscarine poisoning, and can be easily prevented with an IV.

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Misty woods

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Photos taken August 25, 2024

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Daily Fungi Fact 140: Ustilago esculenta is a smut fungi, it is in the same genus as corn smut(Mycosarcoma maydis, also Ustilago maydis, corn smut has more than 1 scientific name this stuff just kinda happens with fungi), Manchurian wild rice(Zizania latifolia) is its only known host.

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for more info: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitrula

Bog beacons

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Coprinus plicatilis (the pleated inkcap)

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Photos taken August 25, 2024