Gatti Ninja

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.

Dan McCullough

For #FungiFriday, a few alternate shots of mushrooms I’ve found over the last few weeks.

1. Split Gills [Schizophyllum commune]
2. Swamp Beacons [Mitrula elegans]
3. Varnish Shelf [Ganoderma tsugae]
4. Chicken [Laetiporus sulphureus]

#nature #fungi #mushrooms #pilze

Closeup of 4 inch water and muck in a bog. Growing up out of a bog are 2 mushrooms that look like matchsticks or Q-tips. The base are dirty white sticks with a bright yellow-orange blob on the top. Each is about 2 inches high. The top of the bog has a glass or ice appearance with dark mounds where the mushrooms come up.

Top down view of 6 kidney shaped shelf mushrooms growing out of a tree. Each has a band of colors - closest to the attachment on the tree is a shiny maroon, then dark orange, then lighter shades of orange, then gold, then yellow and finally white. The mushrooms are about seven inches big and only the top can be seen. At the base of the tree is a carpet of green moss and the tip of my shoe.

Top down view of several dozen Split Gill mushrooms growing out of the tiny twigs of a small dead tree. Most are fan shaped to almost circular with barely an attachment. They are white and light salmon colored and have little notches, or splits, on their edges. They are growing tightly together.

Several outcroppings of orange cauliflower like mushrooms growing from a dead tree. Each clump ranges from about 5 inches high to 10 inches. In the background are hemlock trees.

Dan McCullough

A dapper Barometer Earthstar [Astraeus hygrometricus] found smack in the middle of an old lumbering road.

#FungiFriday #fungi #mushroom #pilz #nature #Mushtodon #hiking

Earthstars look like a ping-pong ball sitting atop opened flower petals. In this case, the sac is a speckled white and gray, and the 6 “petals” are a cracked looking black and white. The mushroom is popping up amongst large rocks and fallen leaves.

Furqan Shah

🌱☘️🌿 Adventures of a baby snail called Rainbow🌈

Munching on some lichen at 10X speed! 🐌🐚

#fungifriends #lichen #fungi #algae #moss #photography #nature #biology #trees #winter #mosstodon #video #mollusk #molluscs #stickoftheday #timelapse #timelapses #LichenSubscribe

Furqan Shah

🌿🍃 I did an #experiment to see how various types of #lichen respond to moisture. I found a stick with many different kinds of lichen and sprayed water on it every few minutes. Here is a 1 hour #timelapse video!

Can you spot the gorilla? 🐌🌈

🥰😍🤩

#fungifriends #fungi #algae #moss #photography #nature #biology #trees #winter #mosstodon #video