#mycology

Bonus fungus video: If you’ve ever seen this powdery yellow to green to aqua substance on trees, you have found Chrysothrix or gold dust lichen! Lichens are a symbiotic relationship between fungi and algae. Video taken just now.

Jackson's Slender Caesar fungi looking like plum tomatoes :)

A fungus photo a day: this is a Lentaria and I think it is Lentaria pinicola, which is mostly a West Coast fungi in North America Taken last November.

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📰 Megafire Could Not Kill the Fungi 🔥 🌎 Mojave Desert: The 2020 Dome Fire wiped out a million Eastern Joshua Trees, leaving a haunting landscape of charred trunks. 🍄 But underground? The mycorrhizal fungi community held strong, diverse, abundant, and even joined by fire‑loving specialists. 🌱 […]

Little mushroom grows out of dense moss

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🍄 There's a mushroom that makes people see tiny people. The same tiny people, every time. Lanmaoa asiatica is a bolete sold as a delicacy in Yunnan, China and the northern Philippines. Cooked thoroughly, it's a savory umami-rich food. Eaten raw or undercooked, it reliably triggers Lilliputian […]

Check out our new paper! 🍄 We summarize the current knowledge on the pathogenesis of the multidrug-resistant fungal pathogen Candida auris and highlight key questions that remain to be answered. doi.org/10.1080/2150...

#ForestFriday #slimemold #mushroom #mycology #thelittlethings #Macro #macrophotography #ECK 📸Jo Baker @jocebaker.bsky.social

whew finished a spread for the first time in a minute. can you tell I am mentally moving from summer to fall.

🧬𝔽𝕌ℕ𝔾𝕀 𝕊𝕋𝕀ℂ𝕂𝔼ℝ🧬Cerioporus squamosus! 🍄 This striking wood-decaying polypore, known as Dryad's saddle, plays a vital role in forest ecosystems through complex wood decomposition.🔬