Fungi are among the planet's most important organisms, yet continue to be overlooked in conservation strategies
das dürfte der hübscheste 'schuppige stiel-porling' sein den ich je gesehen habe. eigentlich ein eher unauffälliger allerweltspilz, der in totholz lebt, stach dieser hier hervor wie ein frisch geschminktes supermodel
#Newswire: Tiba Tempeh has announced the launch of a new Smoky Tempeh Block to debut in Ocado on 18th April and Waitrose and Sainsbury's at the end of April.
#plantprotein #fungi #mycoprotein #ingredients #protein #newproducts #england #uk #retail
https://www.proteinreport.org/newswire/tiba-tempeh-launches-new-smoky-block-lands-waitrose/
@FotoVorschlag
#FotoVorschlag
'dinge die mit p beginnen oder so aussehen'
pilze. gesäte tintlinge.
Entoloma caccabus
https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Entoloma_caccabus.html
Ecology: Saprobic; growing gregariously in bare soil under northern red oak, white oak, hop hornbeam, and persimmon; July; Coles County, Illinois.
Cap: 1-3 cm; planoconvex with a slightly incurved margin at first, becoming shallowly depressed, with a wavy margin and a small umbo; moist; bald; dark grayish brown to dark yellowish brown at first, fading markedly to medium yellowish brown (but often retaining a darker center); the margin becoming slightly translucent-lined with age.
Gills: Attached to the stem; nearly distant; whitish at first, becoming pink; short-gills frequent.
Stem: 2.5-3.5 cm long; 2-4 mm thick; equal; dry; bald or finely silky; whitish to grayish or brownish.
Flesh: Thin; insubstantial; watery whitish to brownish.
Odor and Taste: Mealy.
Chemical Reactions: KOH on cap surface negative.
Spore Print: Pink.
Microscopic Features: Spores 7-10 x 6-8 ; 5- to 6-sided; heterodiametric or occasionally nearly isodiametric; angular; smooth; hyaline. Hymenial cystidia absent. Pileipellis a cutis; elements 5-12.5 wide, brown to brownish in 10% ammonia, with intracellular pigment. Clamp connections present.
The trillums are blooming, which is nice in and of itself, but is also an indictor that the spring fungi should be arriving soon. If I'm lucky, there'll be some morels and verpas where I found them last year around this time.
Also, I learned recently that there’s not two morphs of Trillium: white and purple. But rather that the flowers start out white and change to purple over their lifecycle.
Auriscalpium vulgare
https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Auriscalpium_vulgare.html
Ecology: Saprobic on the cones of conifers--especially pines and Douglas-fir; growing alone or gregariously (up to 4 or 5 mushrooms per cone); late fall and early winter, or over winter in warmer climates; widely distributed in North America.
Cap: 1-3 cm across; broadly convex or flat; kidney-shaped or almost circular in outline; dry; hairy, sometimes becoming smooth with age; reddish brown to dark brown or nearly black.
Undersurface: Spines 1-3 mm long; white at first, becoming brownish; crowded.
Stem: 2-7 cm long; up to 3 mm thick; usually lateral; tough; reddish brown to dark brown; hairy; sometimes attached to a spongy underground portion, when the cone is buried in duff.
Flesh: Whitish to brownish; tough and thin.
Odor and Taste: Odor not distinctive; taste mild or slightly bitter.
Spore Print: White.
Chemical Reactions: KOH on cap and stem instantly black.
Microscopic Features: Spores 3.5-6 ; broadly elliptical to nearly round; smooth, or becoming finely spiny when mature; amyloid. Cystidia scattered; fusoid, with or without a swollen apex; contents refractive in KOH.
Spotted this fungi, at first I thought it was slime mould, but when I went back on another day it seemed more smooth and like fungi. It's a great little creature whatever.
Just added some new Mushroom inspired drawings to my shop. I drew these with the new inks that just arrived. I'm loving how they play together!
https://www.artatomic.io/product/mushrooms-ink-drawing-small-/71
The definition of #fungifriends 
#fungi #mushroom #nature #naturephotography
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University of Michigan's Herbarium introduces new digital collection of illustrations.
"The original watercolors were made by Lewis David von Schweinitz, considered to be a 'father of North American mycology,' and date back to the early 1800s."
Chroogomphus pseudovinicolor
https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Chroogomphus_pseudovinicolor.html
Ecology: Mycorrhizal with Ponderosa Pine and Douglas-Fir; typically growing in small clusters of 2-3 mushrooms, but sometimes growing alone or scattered; summer and fall (and early winter in coastal California); distributed in western North America.
Cap: 5-15 cm wide; convex becoming planoconvex; dry; dull red to dull orange, with a paler margin; darkening to brownish red with age; smooth, but the margin frequently adorned with felty patches or fibers from the partial veil.
Gills: Running down the stem; distant or nearly so; often forking; pale orangish to yellowish at first, developing olive shades and finally turning olive-black as the spores mature.
Stem: 6-12 cm long; up to 5 cm wide; tapering to base; orangish and fairly smooth above the ring zone, but prominently scaly to hairy with reddish to purplish red fibers below; orangish underneath the scales and zones of fibers.
Flesh: Orangish; often yellow in the stem.
Odor and Taste: Not distinctive.
Spore Print: Greenish to olive black.
Microscopic Features: Spores 15-20 x 5-7.5 ; smooth; narrowly elliptical to subfusoid. Cystidia fusiform to cylindric; up to about 200 x 20 ; with thick walls reaching 5-6 wide. Pileipellis a nongelatinized trichoderm.
I have never seen fuzzy fungi like this, but I hope to see it again!
Fungi on decaying log
Skidaway Island, GA
mastodon uno admin 
Here is a fabulous snail! 
