Mushrooms of NZ (imgur.com)
Went on a trip recently to North and South Island and saw some cool mushrooms… the blue ones were a surprise find....
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Went on a trip recently to North and South Island and saw some cool mushrooms… the blue ones were a surprise find....
The inclusion of fungi as an official area of interest puts funga on an equal footing as flora and fauna when referring to macroscopic life on Earth. Funga refers to “fungi of a specific region, habitat, or geological period,” serving as an equivalent concept to flora and fauna for plants and animals. This historic step...
Many signature French cheeses currently rely on just one single fragile strain of fungi — Penicillium camemberti — which is unfortunately at risk of dying out....
On Thursday, Montana health officials published an outbreak analysis of poisonings linked to the honeycombed fungi in March and April of last year. The outbreak sickened 51 people who ate at the same restaurant, sending four to the emergency department. Three were hospitalized and two died. Though the health officials didn’t...
Mycelial fibers, the fibrous cells found in fruiting mushroom bodies, have gained momentum as a sustainable material for making faux-leather and packaging owing to their excellent formability. Recently, a team of researchers has found a simple way of obtaining mycelial fibers, called ‘mycelial pulp,’ from fruiting mushroom...
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/5250884...
I also came across a few puffballs, that had unfortunately started to spore, and some earthballs
Spotted this awesome cluster on a walk today and grabbed a couple, fairly certain they are Pleurotus ostreatus.
This is a beautiful page with the results of an enormous experimentation effort in mushroom dyeing
I found a bunch of these tiny mushrooms along a trail in Idaho.
Thought I would share this here, as it is so beautifully done and so useful....