Gatti Ninja

Tomasz Susuł

A hidden kingdom, where life blooms unseen and undisturbed.

#FungiFriday #photography #photo #fotografie #photographie #fotografia #naturelovers #naturephotography #nature #fungi #mushroom #mosstodon

A single, delicate mushroom with a slim, straight stem emerges from a soft carpet of green moss. Centred against a smooth, blurred, light-green background, it creates a calm, dreamlike atmosphere. The small, dome-shaped cap is pale brown with a slightly frayed edge. Fine strands of spider silk stretch diagonally from the stem towards the right, catching the light like faint silver lines. In the bottom left corner, a tiny spider hangs beside the moss stalks. The depth of field is very shallow: the mushroom is in sharp focus, while the foreground moss and the entire background melt into creamy bokeh circles. The composition is vertical and uncluttered, with the mushroom placed slightly off-centre and negative space filling most of the frame with bokeh circles.

scribblans (with tea)

I'm sure someone will tell me what this fungus is. All I can tell you is it seemed very keen on this tree stump.
#fungi #photography #ukwildlife

A tree stump is festooned (love that word) with a fungus that I am sure will be identified by an enthusiasts. All I know it is a load of browny red caps with white flecks on and in a ring around the edges of each one. There are probably over a hundred layered around the edge of the stump in various sizes (average about 20cm across), but the top of it is relatively free of them. There are brambles growing on the surrounding forest floor and interwined in the fungus.

Helena

There have been some amazing fungi growing these past couple of days.
The glow of the light on the mushrooms is just magical.
#fungi

A pale beige coral fungus growing in a raised bed with dry brown leaves on the ground.
The fungus is a column of many small -very slightly branched at the tip -tubes.

A couple of dark brown flat topped mushrooms with darker stems growing in green grass, some pale dry grass stems are present, low to the ground.

A pale slender stemmed mushroom with a cone shaped cap. The dark gills make a brown edge to the bottom of the cap.
The mushroom is growing on grass and clover, the tops of trees are out of focus at the top of the photo.

A pale lumpy capped mushroom growing in grass with a few three lobed leaves of clover.

Natasha Jay :flag_transgender:

Textile artist Julie Collings, hand dyed silk velvet caps and needle felted wool stems

Adorable 🍄

#WomensArt #mushrooms #fungi

Textile artwork resembling a bunch of mushrooms on a dark surface created with fabric, including velvet caps in different colours

finserra 🙌

#FungiFriday #fungi
Seen this week in the soggy Chesapeake Watershed.

Large disc-shaped fringed white mushroom.

Troop of broad, white, disc-shaped mushrooms.

Frank Ashwood

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

A photograph of slime mold fruiting bodies on a log. The slime molds are a round white blobs on transparent stalks.

A photograph of slime mold fruiting bodies on a log. The slime molds are a round black blobs on red stalks.

A photograph of a slime mold fruiting body on a log. The slime mold is a round orange blob on a transparent stalk.

chestas

Earth Star mushrooms are wonderful, looking like flowers with petals. This was the best I've seen this year.

Pd. Earth Star is a great name 😎

#fungi #mushrooms #mushtodon #Tasmania #lutruwita

Earth Star mushrooms are wonderful, looking like flowers with petals. This was the best I've seen this year.

Pd. Earth Star is a great name 😎

#fungi #mushrooms #mushtodon #Tasmania #lutruwita

A light brown mushroom in the shape of a flower. The central sphere is slightly darker with a dark brown nub in its centre. Spreading around are almost white arms which resemble petals

Lukas VF Novak

The genetic prison that traps a ghost plant https://botany.one/2025/06/the-genetic-prison-that-traps-a-ghost-plant/ paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pei3.70060

"M. humile gets energy from #fungi... Even though they don’t photosynthesise, ghost #plants still have leaves... it must have a flower to attract the #insects & get pollinated. But this leads to a genetic problem. The petals and sepals are specialised forms of leaf. Some of the genes that shape the petals and sepals also work on the ghost plant’s leaves... Without the leaves there is no flower."

close-up photo of a cluster of white flowers growing from the ground

Dan McCullough

My wife: “Perhaps you could expand your social circles.”

Me:

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

Deep in the woods, a dead tree trunk still stands. It is about 5 feet high and has a splintered top, almost crown looking top where the majority of the tree snapped off. There is a good amount of moss at its base. Located smack in the middle of the bark that faces the camera are 3 very old shelf mushrooms forming a face - 2 on top creating eyes and one just below creating a nose, or mouth, your choice. The background of the woods is blurred out to call attention to the tree.

Sprig 🌱

📰 "Scientists in Germany have discovered fungi that can actually eat plastic.

Researchers from the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries in Berlin found microfungi capable of breaking down synthetic plastics, potentially giving us a new tool to tackle the massive amounts of waste that end up in oceans and landfills every year."

https://happyeconews.com/scientists-discover-new-plastic-eating-fungi/

#goodnews #fungi #nature #environment #solarpunk

Photo Nutter from Melbourne

Good evening, #mastoart #mastodon

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

@Roentare
@australia

Original
https://Roentare.zenfolio.com/p893993247/ec87849

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.