Gatti Ninja

Photo Nutter from Melbourne

This is #SilentSunday #fotografie #photography

#lake Sanitarium, Mount Macedon, #naarm #melbourne #australia

#roentare #photographyisart #photooftheday #pictureoftheday #picoftheday #potd #fungus #parasol #mushroom #mushrooms #fungi #nature #naturephotography #macro #macrophotography #flora #blue #beautiful #buyintoart

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The pixie parasol, scientifically known as Mycena interrupta, is a small, enchanting mushroom native to Australia, New Zealand, and parts of Asia. It is easily recognized by its striking, bright blue cap, which appears almost otherworldly against the forest floor. Typically growing on decaying wood in damp, shaded environments, the pixie parasol thrives in cool, moist climates. Despite its delicate, whimsical appearance, this mushroom plays a vital role in the ecosystem by helping decompose organic matter. While its vivid color makes it a favorite among nature photographers and fungi enthusiasts, it is not considered edible. The pixie parasol embodies the hidden magic of forest ecosystems, captivating those lucky enough to spot it in the wild.

Katina Rogers

Good morning from these excellent fungi friends 🍄📸

#fungi #mushtodon #nature

A diagonal branch with reddish-brown jelly fungus of some kind

An alien-looking tan lump of dryad’s saddle. Break a piece, it smells like watermelon or cucumber!

Global Museum

The Scientists Behind Cornell’s Mushroom Museum.

As the fourth largest museum of fungi in North America, CUP hosts more than 400,000 fungal specimens as well as several ongoing research projects in #mycology, the study of fungi
https://cornellsun.com/2025/02/28/the-scientists-behind-cornells-mushroom-museum/ #museums #Fungi

Lukas VF Novak

The teeming life of dead #trees: Rotting logs turn out to be vital to forest #biodiversity and recycling organic matter https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2025/rotting-logs-mini-ecosystems-habitat-and-food

"Wood-decay #fungi can be remarkably territorial. Cut through a rotten log, and you’ll often see black lines running through the wood. That’s melanin which fungi use to protect themselves against other, intruding fungi. Those are the regions where fungal mycelia are bumping up against each other and basically battling for turf"

Drawing of a fallen tree in a forest. It is covered in mushrooms, insects, and slugs. Art by Myriam Wares.

eclectech

I found a face in the fungi! And you know me by now, I do like to share a found face. Sorry about that 😬

#sillyScribbles #fungi #photography

A photo of a tree trunk with layers of bracket fungi on it. The photo has three vertical strips; on the left is tree bark, down the centre is the fungi, on the right is a dull blue blurred sky. The central section had large canopy of fungi with two small protuberances on its top, which looked to me like an open mouth and slightly squinting bulbous eyes, so I added some teeth, darkened the mouth interior a little, and draw eyes onto the protuberances. It looks like an old face, mid-story, possibly slightly drunk. Sort of.

The girl from Iparenzo

Psathyrella aquatica. Il primo fungo mai avvistato sotto acqua.
#fungi
#HPL

Psathyrella aquatica is a species of fungus from Oregon, first described in the journal Mycologia in 2010.[1] It represents the first ever report of a gilled basidiomycete fruiting underwater.

Rasta

I have mentioned before, that with my #ADHD, I'm either super distracted or completely focused.

Regarding the recent Emerg Alert, my wife said she was minutes away from calling in my disappearance when I took my camera before daylight & went for a 25 kms walk.
My phone was going dead. I was gone hours.
That's not the only time I've done that. I forget the time, and am engrossed in nature taking #fungi photos and nature shots with my camera.
One day, the alerts will be for me.

Mark Ohe

A vast underground network of fungi has been supporting life above ground for 450 million years, but the recent discovery by scientists, including researchers from the University of Sheffield, that fungi is storing OVER ONE THIRD OF THE CARBON created from fossil fuel emissions each year indicates that it could be crucial as nations seek to tackle climate change and reach net zero emissions

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/fungi-stores-third-carbon-fossil-fuel-emissions-and-could-be-essential-reaching-net-zero

#Fungi #Climate #Carbon #Emissions

Sean Riley

Standing alone #fungi #mushroom

Brown capped mushroom rises alone on the brown forrest path, with blue sky and green trees in the background.

This Is My Glasgow

Autumn fungi from the banks of the River Kelvin as it passes through the Garscube Estate in the west of Glasgow.

#glasgow #wildglasgow #nature #fungi #autumnfungi #urbannature #riverkelvin #garscube #glasgowuniversity

A large patch of fungi growing on top of each other.

unlibroprestado

The Lepidoptera of Ceylon by Moore, Frederic, 1830-1907 ~ https://archive.org/details/lepidopteraofcey01moor #fungi #butterflies #birds #nature #book #archive #scientificillustration

Tomasz Susuł

#SilentSunday

#photography #photo #fotografie #photographie #fotografia #naturelovers #naturephotography #nature #fungi #mushroom #fungifriday #naturecommunity

Colour photograph of a small purple fungus on a very thin stem growing out of a dark, almost black piece of wood. All sorts of mosses from small to tall grow around it. Some reach up to the mushroom's cap. The background is blurred by the shallow depth of field, creating coloured circles in a variety of colours from green to pink, acorn and deep purple.

Dan McCullough

A perfect day for hiking and the woods offered up this bright bouquet of Honey Mushrooms.

Ringless Honey Mushrooms
[Armillaria tabescens]

#FungiFriday #Fungi #Nature #Mushrooms #Pilze #Mushtodon

Approximately 16 mushrooms growing up from a central spot in the moss. All the mushrooms are fresh and have bright yellow stubby caps with whitish thick stems. The stems also have jagged flaky pieces covering them. There is a tree stump behind them covered with moss and lichen.

Dr Ian McCormick

Dead Man's Fingers Mushrooms (Xylaria polymorpha) or Dead Moll’s Fingers (Xylaria longipes) ?? #fungi

Macabre-looking clusters of hard, swollen, warty ‘fingers’, 3–8cm high. When young they are pale grey with a whitish tip. The pale covering is a coating of asexual spores produced in the early stage of their development. Inside, the flesh is white and tough under the black spore-bearing outer layer.

Fruiting bodies: finger-shaped, grey or brown, blackening with age, varying from 1–3cm.

Gills/spores: the spores are dark brown when developed, banana-shaped with a black spore print.

Stipe: a small stalk which attaches the fruiting ‘finger’ to the dead wood.

Dan McCullough

This is one of my favorite mushrooms because, well, just look!

It has a few drab, unsuitable, booooring common names like “Easter Caesar’s Amanita” and “American Slender Caesar” but I always think of it as a Tequila Sunrise.

[Amanita jacksonii]

#FungiFriday #Nature #Mushrooms #Fungi #Pilze #Mushtodon

Closeup of a brightly colored mushroom coming up from the forest floor. It’s is about 2 inches high and 3 inches wide. The cap, which is nearly flat is bright red at the umbo (dimple in the middle) and bleeds into orange, then yellow at the edges. It’s a gilled mushroom and you can see the underside gills poking through to the top at the edges.

Closeup of what appears to be a bright red egg growing out of a white, cobwebby sheath on the forest floor. This is common with many Amanita mushrooms that start in an egg-like, button stage and then grow into their classic umbrella pose.

Looking down on 4 brightly colored mushroom coming up from the forest floor. They are about 2 inches high and 3 inches wide. The caps, which are nearly flat are bright red at the umbo (dimple in the middle) and bleeds into orange, then yellow at the edges. The underside gills are poking through to the top at the edges. There are 2 mushrooms on the left, bumping up on each other with one of the caps now just a semi circle. The 2 mushrooms in the right are positioned so that one cap is nearly encompassing the other.