Our guesses were pretty close!
The small ones are brown birch bolete. The bigger bolete remains a bit of a mystery. The blackening brittlegrill was correct (apparently they're edible but not great).
New picking spot, new spore prints.
Astonishing Mycorrhizal Networks smallthingsconsidered.blog/sch… Paper: science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc…
"they predicted an average global hyphal density of 4.4 m per cubic cm. If stretched end to end, these tiny thread-like structures could extend approximately 110 quadrillion km. To put this in perspective, this length is equivalent to thousands of light-years and almost a billion times the distance between Earth and the Sun. That is a lot of #fungi in the top 15 cm of Earth's soil!"
Via @STCmicrobeblog
Noteworthy — Underground mycorrhizal hyphal networks are mind-boggling in size.STC (Small Things Considered)
#Scientists described about 1.5mil #species on Earth 🌍 How many still remain undiscovered? 🧐 We may not get the chance to know 50 million species of #animals, #plants and #fungi! Take action #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy palmoildetectives.com/2024/04/21/s...
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Scientists have described around 1.5 million species on Earth - but how many are still out there to be discovered? This is one of the most heated debates in biology.Palm Oil Detectives
Scientists have described around 1.5 million species on Earth - but how many are still out there to be discovered? This is one of the most heated debates in biology.Palm Oil Detectives
Fungi get injured too. 🍄💥
And when a microscopic fungal thread breaks, things can go wrong very quickly.
So how do fungi stop the damage and keep the rest of their network alive?
youtu.be/Rtxzq3YtGzo?si=nzaPDr…
#fungi #mushrooms #mycology #education #science #nature #microbiology #aspergillus #lichen #FungiFriday #ecology #spores #academy
Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.VandaVision: Fungi, MycoViruses, Lichens (YouTube)
First ever global mapping of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi shows scale of hyphal systems that sustain plant lifePippa Neill (the Guardian)
The search for life on Earth is speeding up, not slowing down. Scientists are now identifying more than 16,000 new species each year, revealing far more biodiversity than expected across animals, plants, fungi, and beyond.ScienceDaily
Some delighted participants with their take home blue oyster mushrooms grow bucket. Lots of smiles & great energy shared at the mushrooms growing workshop, this afternoon ✌️🙂
#WellandCommunityOrchard #nonprofit #CommunityOrchard #OrchardPark #Stewardship #FoodSecurity #FoodSystems #ViewRoyal #YYJ #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #PhotoDocumentation #GrowMushrooms #Fungi #GrowFood #HappyFolks #Smiles #CommunityBuilding #CultivatingCommunities
Our mushrooms growing workshop sold out fast. There's going to be another mushrooms growing workshop, in the Fall. All the participants today, were delighted to make their own blue oysters grow bucket to take home.
Our next workshop at the community orchard is a fruit tree grafting workshop - which is sold out with a waiting list.
#WellandCommunityOrchard #nonprofit #CommunityOrchard #OrchardPark #Stewardship #FoodSecurity #FoodSystems #ViewRoyal #YYJ #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #PhotoDocumentation #GrowMushrooms #Fungi #GrowFood #CommunityBuilding #CultivatingCommunities #DIY #workshop
Participants at mushrooms growing workshop in Welland Community Orchard, this afternoon 🙂
Welland Community Orchard #mushrooms growing workshop prep.
The search for life on Earth is speeding up, not slowing down. Scientists are now identifying more than 16,000 new species each year, revealing far more biodiversity than expected across animals, plants, fungi, and beyond.ScienceDaily
Oat containers work pretty well for mushroom growing. Small enough to be manageable and good at keeping the moisture in.
#Fungi disarm #BarkBeetle chemical shields by converting their plant-derived toxins phys.org/news/2025-12-fungus-b… pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2525…
"a bark beetle can co-opt a tree's defensive compounds to make defenses against its own enemies. However, since one of the enemies, the #fungus Beauveria bassiana, has developed the ability to detoxify these antimicrobial defenses, it can successfully infect the #BarkBeetles and thus actually help the tree in its battle against bark #beetles"
Spruce bark is rich in phenolic compounds that protect trees from pathogenic fungi. A research team at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena has investigated how these plant defenses function within the food web, particularly in spruc…Max Planck Society (Phys.org)
Animals and plants constitute a very small part of our native biodiversity (roughly 5%). The vast majority – fungi, bacteria and the enormous diversity of other microscopic organisms, includi…Palm Oil Detectives
Very happy to have our new paper out, which represents the hard work of many people over more than 6 years. Antarctic fungi are slow growers!
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
#fungi #lichen #moss #lichensubscribe #mosstodon #antarctica
Hidden inside every growing hypha lies a microscopic powerhouse — the #Spitzenkörper.
It’s not just a blob at the fungal tip — it’s the traffic controller, architect, and GPS of fungal growth. 🍄
This video will uncover how this mysterious vesicle cluster orchestrates the very architecture of life beneath our feet.
#fungi #mycology #Mushrooms #FungiFriday #Science #nature #NatGeo #academia #aspergillus
#hyphae #mycelium #phdone #conidia #youtube #Education #microbiology
These are the beautiful spore-producing structures of plasmodial slime molds. Which is your favourite colour?
Originally considered Fungi, these Myxomycetes are now classed as Amoebozoans - single celled organisms with thousands of nuclei... not animals or fungi but something else entirely!
#SoilBiodiversity #SoilEcology #Fungi #MacroPhotography #Nature #MoldMonday #Soil
Viruses that roam the fungal kingdom knowablemagazine.org/content/a…
"today, scientists researching fungal #viruses are enjoying a golden age of discovery... finding all sorts of weird and wonderful interactions between #fungi and their viruses and even between fungal viruses and #plants or #animals. Most fungal viruses don’t seem to do much of anything to their hosts, but others cause sickness or offer surprising benefits."
500,000 Taxa on iNaturalist! inaturalist.org/blog/103155-50…
"that’s 23% of all known species on Earth... #Birds stand out: nearly all species have been observed on #iNaturalist. 349 species (2%) are yet to be recorded... For #reptiles, #amphibians, & #mammals there are about 10x as many unobserved... Like birds, most unobserved species only remain in tropical regions. This is not the case for #fish, #plants, #invertebrates, & #fungi where there are still many left to observe in all parts of the globe"
We've reached an incredible milestone — 500,000 unique taxa documented on iNaturalist! According to 2022 IUCN estimates, that’s nearly a quarter (23%) of all known species on Earth.iNaturalist
Some material experiments with mycelium substrate growing in sawdust and flour, to make fungi sculptures from moulds.
I am using a proprietary mix from the Dutch company Kineco kineco.bio/, although I know I can potentially make this myself with some spores and sawdust.
Will report back in about 7 days with whatever comes of these.
#art #fungi #mycelia #sculpture #experiment
A perfect day for hiking and the woods offered up this bright bouquet of Honey Mushrooms.
Ringless Honey Mushrooms
[Armillaria tabescens]
Do you know MediaDive, the world’s largest collection of cultivation media for microorganisms 🧫? It contains detailed introductions how to prepare the medium you need for your strain. In addition to the provision of all media used at the DSMZ, you can also create your own media or search for a medium suitable for your strain. Give it a try 😉
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#database #microbiology #research #DSMZDigitalDiversity #bacteria #fungi
Discover standardized cultivation media recipes for more than 40,000 microbial strains.mediadive.dsmz.de
Cool paper looking at biomass degradation in leaf cutter ant fungus gardens:
Mapping microhabitats of lignocellulose decomposition by a microbial consortium
nature.com/articles/s41589-023…
#microbiology #fungi #cellulose
Metabolome-informed proteome imaging provides a comprehensive view of underlying biological pathways within micrometer-scale microhabitats of the fungal garden, informing the understanding of metabolic fungal pathways in plant matter degradation.Nature
A refined single-cell sequencing technique provides insight into how pathogenic fungi respond to drugs.eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
mushroom dump (1/3)
Marine #microorganisms are crucial for #ocean health.
#Bacteria, #archaea, #fungi, #algae and #viruses make up most of the biomass in the seas and form the base of marine food webs.
They support nutrient cycling and drive crucial biogeochemical processes, including key steps in the carbon, nitrogen and silicon cycles.
Ocean modelling must evolve to take their biological complexity into account.
#biology #ecology #oceans
nature.com/articles/d41586-023…
Microorganisms are the engines that drive most marine processes. Ocean modelling must evolve to take their biological complexity into account.Tagliabue, Alessandro
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Had enough of #viruses?
Here are the #fungi! knowablemagazine.org/article/h…
We live in the age of infectious diseases resurgence
Looks pretty cool
Mycorrhizas drive the evolution of plant adaptation to drought
nature.com/articles/s42003-023…
#evolution #coevolution #plants #fungi
Phylogenetic comparative analysis using data of 1,638 species of angiosperms and gymnosperms suggests that the evolution of plant adaptation to critical environmental change in water availability across global climates is dependent on mycorrhizas.Nature
Gotta love the term "threshold of lichenisation" - sounds dramatic. Cool study!
Alcobiosis, an algal-fungal association on the threshold of lichenisation
nature.com/articles/s41598-023…
#symbiosis #lichen #algae #fungi
Scientific Reports - Alcobiosis, an algal-fungal association on the threshold of lichenisationNature
