#fungi

[seabeck]

Pretty in pink

[lindagoesmushrooming]

Snow-covered Sulphur tuft.

[lichenaday]

Cladonia strepsilis

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[mycosprite]

Grey Coral Clavulina cinerea

[amberfoxlens]

[brokenmusicboxwolfe]

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[thechthonicherbalist]

Mushroom Microcosms ~ Vol 1. 🌌 Laccaria Amethystina 🌌

The beautiful Laccaria Amethystina with it's mystic hues is commonly known as the "Amethyst Deceiver" Mushroom. 🔮✨

With this tiny beauty only being the height of a thumb, I had to get on my hands and knees to capture pictures of it at those angles, but I dare say it was absolutely worth it. Although many people shun it due to high arsenic levels, it is known as a delicious edible mushroom here in Europe. (Wikipedia!) I prefer it as a subject to my camera lens, rather than in my witches' stew though and I wouldn't personally know them to be safe for consumption. 😂

In folk medicine and spiritual practice the essence of Laccaria Amethystina is believed to have a number of effects on mind and body here. It is thought to release blockades of both mental and physical nature and to accelerate the transformation of processes be it illness, menopause, stagnant emotions or problems, with the result of freeing the user from it. Whether or not this works and is safely practicable is beyond my judgement. I can only speak a word of warning of not consuming any mushrooms you don't know and to consult a local expert if you want more information on their edibility. I found these in a small forest part of a parking space off the highway in my homeland in Middle-Europe, on one of my trips to a hospital appointment in late August/early September this year. I haven't been in the right mind or had the energy to share these since. Originally I had saved them to share on a special occasion. But they do look like they come straight out of wonderland, especially if you take pictures from below, where you can see the sun shine through the delicate lamella. Seing the purple hues turn to shades of pink, red and even orange definitely put me in awe!

I hope looking at these brings you as much joy as they did to me! More magical mushroom photos are to come soon!

[forestd0ll]

dec. mycena ⋆˙⟡

[mushroom-forest-life]

Mushroom of the day:

Dead’s Man’ Fingers/ Xylaria polymorpha

Geographic location-global; growing location-decomposing hardwood, stumps or logs

Characteristics-thin cylindrical fungi that looks like fingers sticking out of the ground can be gray, dark, brown or black

Edible but some are poisonous

Sometimes used for mycoremediation and instrument maker 

When this mushroom is young, it has a whitish bluish growing tip with a darker colored body. Then as it gets older, it becomes black and covered in small bumps, called paerithecia, from which spores are released

 dead man’s fingers can be “species complex” meaning there are many look-alikes that, without DNA sequencing makes it almost impossible to differentiate between them.

In India, these mushrooms are used to promote lactation after birth and taken twice daily before meals with cows, milk

It may be partially poisonous. It does seem to have benefits. research shows this mushroom with beneficial compounds used to support the immune system.

[seabeck]

Birds nests

[lindagoesmushrooming]

[lichenaday]

Lecanora barkmaniana

OK, but a lichen who grows on trees whose name is L. BARKMANIANA is very funny to me. Maybe I have been studying lichens too long, IDK. This crustose lichen has a thin, powdery gray-white thallus that is cracked and warted, and surrounded in a dark gray prothallus. It produces yellow-green soredia which at first are well delimited in wart-like soralia, but in older specimens cover the entire thallus in a dusty crust. It only rarely produces apothecia, which have sunken, pale brown discs and crenulate margins. It also glows orange under UV light, which is pretty cool, and pretty useful for identification in a crustose lichen that doesn't have apothecia. L. barkmaniana is pretty tolerant of eutrophication, and so can be found growing on roadside and urban trees in Europe. It likely has a wider range, but has been under recorded due to its inconspicuous appearance.

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[strobilomyces-strobilaceus]

little fungi creature sticker designs i forgot i made

[mollybeenoel]

Super tiny Mycena Roseoflava.

Photographed by cyanesense

[imaginarylands4000]