Mushrooms - Blog Posts
TW:Roadkill
Imagine seeing a fairy circle and a dead coyote while rollerblading down a highway and immediately having a great yet terrible day…
Skill issue -_-
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Tattoo designs inspired by my friends: Alex 🐌🍄
Halloween will be very different this year but we can still enjoy some amazing art!
Here’s mine, Sibbie dapping into some magic and incarnations, what will the spell do? Who knows but she and seishin are gonna have fun!
Hope you have a safe Halloween and it’s a better one next year

If we're gonna be so harsh on the tomato for actually being a fruit we can not keep on ignoring mushrooms. What are they?
Time for the grand reveal the poisonous mushroom was...
Mushroom A!
Yet again, the people of Tumblr have had a surprising amount of common sense. Just you wait though, I'll get ya'll next time.
Mushroom A: Blushing wood mushroom
Mushroom B: Prince mushroom (edible)
Pick a mushroom to eat!
Time for my favorite game, guess the mushroom that won't kill you! The People™️ did so well on my last one in fact that I've made it harder this time :D
Enjoy!
Mushroom fact of the week!
Termitomyces fungus forms symbiotic relationships with termites. The termites bring the fungi plant material to decompose and build it "fungal combs" to grow in. In exchange the fungi provides nutrient rich spherules for the termites to eat.
Pick a mushroom to eat!
Time for my favorite game, guess the mushroom that won't kill you! The People™️ did so well on my last one in fact that I've made it harder this time :D
Enjoy!
Mushroom fact of the week!
Spalting is a pattern of dark black webs that appears in wood. It's quite sought after in woodworking for its unique appearance, but is actually caused by competition between the different fungi inhabiting the log.
The black lines are what's known as zone lines. Fungi make walls when they feel another fungi nearing in on their territory to protect their resources, resulting in black lines.
Found these neat mushrooms, not sure what they are but I can't wait to eat them!
Mushrooms in nature: I will grow no matter the obstacle I will spread my mycelium far and wide I will outlive your family and feast on your corpse no power on earth shall stop me
Mushrooms when you try to farm them: Ew tf you mean 80% humidity I said I wanted 90
*freaking dies*
Not flowers :D
These flowers are not flowers, but rather a parasitic fungi's "pseudo flowers" it uses to spread its spores
The fungi infects the plant and siphons off its nutrients. In order to reproduce the fungi sterilizes the host plant, preventing it from making its own flowers.
It then forces the plant to grow yellow "pseudo flowers" that contain the fungi's spores. These spores are collected by pollinators same as the plant's own pollen would be and transferred from plant to plant, spreading the infection.
Fungi I found on my hike!
I WAS looking for morels, didn't find them but did find these guys!
I think top right is a wood ear mushroom, and bottom right is for sure a cedar apple rust fungi, but I don't know about the others
Ghost pipe flower
The Ghost pipe flower is a pale white flower that lacks chlorophyll. Instead of photosynthesizing, it gets its nutrients by tapping into the network of fungi beneath the forest floor. Sometimes they are referred to as fungus flowers due to their resemblance of pale mushrooms.
CONGRATS (TO MOST OF YOU) FOR CHOOSING THE RIGHT FUNGI!!!!!!
To those of you who voted mushroom B, I am giving you a light slap on the wrist
Happy April fools!
Let's play a game! :D Which of the following mushrooms are you going to eat?
In this game you can't say none of the above. You have to choose. I promise at least one will be a tasty snack. The other one is less so. Good luck :D
Mushroom fact of the Week!
Lichens are extremely durable. In 2005 NASA sent lichen 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!
Some concept art for a current project being made with the lovely @that-onecookiehead :)
Mushroom fact of the week!
Mushrooms scam trees!
Some fungi get their nutrients by exchanging nutrients with plants. The fungi provides phosphorous and the plant gives carbon in return.
The less phosphorous available, higher price the plant will pay for the phosphorous, giving more carbon for each unit received. However, when there is more available the fungi will receive less carbon for its troubles.
So what these fungi do, being the scammers they are, is transport phosphorous through the mycelium from areas of high abundance to areas of low abundance where it is more scarce and fetches a higher price. This way, the fungi is able to get much more carbon out of the plant.
I could tell from the veil xD Destroying angel was one of the first ever mushrooms I learned about when entering the mycology community
I'm proud to know that the majority of us will not die from eating the wrong fungi 😃👍
Truly though, that mushroom is drilled into your head the second you become a part of the mycology community, it, and the death cap
Happy April fools!
Let's play a game! :D Which of the following mushrooms are you going to eat?
In this game you can't say none of the above. You have to choose. I promise at least one will be a tasty snack. The other one is less so. Good luck :D
Mushroom fact of the week!
The white spots viewed on the fly agaric are actually not a part of the cap at all!
Many fungi’s fruiting bodies form inside a small sac, which when it breaks open becomes the universal veil. It's actually pieces of this sac that stick to the cap of the fly agaric becoming the appearance of white spots! If you were to touch the cap the spots would wipe off quite easily
Mushroom fact of the week!
Enoki mushrooms actually only look like how most people think of them when grown in total darkness. They look quite normal otherwise!
Wild enoki vs. enoki cultivated in darkness ^
Woods adventure :)
Earlier today I went into the woods to hunt for bones with my grandpa, first thing we did was find where all the tracks were down by the creek, and there were a LOT. We found mostly deer tracks, but there were some raccoon tracks, rabbit tracks, and coyote tracks mixed in
As far as dead things go, there was some rabbit fur and feathers about, but no bones. There's been a hawk in the area lately, so it was probably him.
Of course, I did find fungi :D Its winter right now so theres not many about but the bracket fungi tend to stick around year round
I'm not sure what species it is, so if anyone knows let me know. There was also some reishi growing out by the wood pile, those have been growing there for almost a year now.
This horribly spiked honey locust tree was out to get me, and it did in fact spike me.
I was out in the woods a good 45 minutes before I headed back, and there were sadly no bones or antlers to be found. I did find some pretty blue glass and a crayfish claw though :D
Then I headed to the barn to see if any owls had left some bones for me. They had not, but the lighting was really nice :)
Witches Cap Fungi
Mushroom of the Week No. 1
The witches cap mushroom, or Hygrocybe conica, starts off a vivid red-orange with patches of yellow. As it ages it slowly turns black naturally, or bruises black due to injury. This is actually one of the most helpful factors in identification, though the fungi itself is not sought after for its edibility. It cannot be cultivated in labs presently, suggesting that it requires something special from its environment, possibly a mycorrhizal relationship. For this it needs to be investigated further.
Funguary Day 28: Caesar's Mushroom
The Caesar's mushroom is one of the very few fungi of the Amanita genus. It is close relatives with fungi such as the death cap (see that post here), however it is edible and reportedly delicious. That doesn’t stop it from having many poisonous look-alikes, as every year there are poisonings of people who thought they were eating Caesar's mushroom but were rather eating a poisonous species.
One of the most famous poisonings involving this mushroom took place in ancient Rome. emperor Claudius had ascended to the throne after the assassination of his nephew. He had many wives in his life but finally married his fourth wife Agrippina. Agrippina had a son, Nero, whom she had big plans for. She persuaded Claudius to adopt Nero, putting him in line for the throne, but she was not a patient woman. You can see where this is going. She decided to speed up the time it would take for her son to take the throne by feeding Claudius his favorite meal, the Caesars mushroom, laced with extracts from the death cap fungi. When the symptoms set in the next day a co-conspirator doctor administered a toxin from a plant called the bitter apple, finishing him off. Nero became the emperor, and the rest was history.
And that is funguary officially finished! One post per day on mycology for 28 days! Started preparing back in January, still finished the research for this post last night. Regardless, I loved it so much, and more importantly, now I have EVEN MORE mushroom facts to force upon my poor unassuming friends. If you're interested in seeing the rest of my posts for funguary you can find them all here!
And from now on, I will have a mushroom post every Saturday so if you're interested in that keep an eye out for it :)
Thanks for listening to my rambles!
Funguary Day 27: Scarlet Cup
Most species that would come to mind when you think of fungi are basidiomycetes, fungi that produce their spores in cells called basidia. This phylum of fungi contains most of the “fleshy” fungi, including all fungi with gills or pores. Some “fleshy” fungi however, like the Scarlet Cup, are Ascomycetes. Mushrooms like morels and saddle fungi are also a part of this phylum. Ascomycetes produce their spores in sac-like structures called asci, unlike the basidia of the basidiomycetes. See the diagram below for more clarification on the difference between asci and basidia!
See the rest of my posts for funguary here!
Funguary Day 26: Indigo Milkcap
Indigo Milkcap, or Lactarius indigo, is an edible fungi that bleeds a blue latex milk like substance when cut. This “milk” turns green when exposed to air, and is reported to have a mild taste similar to that of the fungi itself.
See the rest of my posts for funguary here!