#mushroom

[daily-dragon-drawing]

mushroom dragon?

#105 - 魔菇 (mógū / magic shroom) - You may see her hanging out in a forest after a rainy day! 🍄🤎🪵

[seabeck]

Brown mushrooms

[rebeccathenaturalist]

Okay. This is a pretty big deal in the world of mycology. Historically fungi have been divided up into either parasites that siphon resources from plants, mutualists that cooperate with them, or saprotrophs that break down decaying organic matter (plant and otherwise.) The genus in question, Mycena, has traditionally been made of saprotrophic species feeding on decaying wood.

However, what scientists are observing is Mycena fungi displaying primitive mutualistic behaviors, specifically providing living plants with nitrogen and getting carbon in return from a living partner, or getting to chow down on the plant's remains once deceased. This shows a significant level of adaptability that hasn't been observed in fungi beforehand, though given how much we don't know about fungi there's a good possibility this isn't an unprecedented event.

It doesn't surprise me one bit that we're seeing this in Mycena. These fungi are especially opportunistic; in fact, that mushroom growing out of a frog's skin that we saw a while back was also a Mycena species. Perhaps we need to add bonnet mushrooms to raccoons, dandelions, and other hardy generalists as symbols of scrappy survival in spite of environmental pressures.

[magictablecloth]

⭒๋࣭ ⭑༻*:·.♡ Pink in Nature ♡ .·:*༺⭒๋࣭ ⭑

[find-high]

https://elizabeth-546.szhdyy.com.cn/h/kSHRIAO

[together-bring]

https://shirley-280.ludgu.top/ht/sI6OC8W

https://shirley-280.ludgu.top/ht/sI6OC8W

[pnwfunguys]

Tremetes versicolor (Turkey Tail) • Southern Oregon • Jan 2024

[hollysmakingstuff]

Graveyard mushie

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

Vintage elves and gnomes I've encountered in my esoteric research.

[mortallymoonstruckgames]

Happy Wishlist Wednesday! We're working hard behind the scenes to buff up the full game, so be sure to wishlist us on Steam to keep up to date with any release announcements..! ✨🍄

[mushroomidentifierbot]

Just so everyone is aware:

An international group of qualified mushroom identifiers who do worldwide identification in emergency cases have identified the Shroomers App as a potentially very dangerous system that could kill you if you try to use it to identify edible mushrooms. They use AI to generate almost all of their content, including their identification profiles on their app as well as their books and other materials. Not only is this unethical from a content creation standpoint, it is also extremely dangerous.

DO NOT USE APPS FOR IDENTIFICATION PURPOSES BEYOND SIMPLE CURIOSITY. A MISTAKE WHEN IDENTIFYING AN EDIBLE COULD COST YOU YOUR LIFE. DO NOT EAT ANY FORAGED MUSHROOM YOU CANNOT IDENTIFY YOURSELF BY SIGHT OR HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED IN PERSON BY SOMEONE WHO CAN.

ONLY BUY BOOKS FROM REPUTABLE SOURCES AND AT THIS POINT THAT MEANS ASKING EXPERIENCED PEOPLE WHAT BOOKS THEY USE.

Mushrooms are fun, amazing organisms. Enjoy safely.

[japhers]

Toadstools!

[seabeck]

Birds nests

[zegalba]

近藍蓋小菇 Mycena Subcyanocephala fungi translates to the "blue-head" and measures at only a single millimeter.

[theedorksinlove]

different viewpoints

[fairydropart]

It is October, my dudes