Fungi Appreciation Thread!

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I don't think sci fi movie animators have ever been able to come up with anything better than actual fungi, which could pass for alien creatures in most any movie.

^^ agreed, darmok!


mycena epipterygia with spinellus fusiger

Earthstars are also one of my favorites, although they're not especially dramatic.

weird world

^I agree with you on this.

My shiitake logs are starting to fruit.My stomach will be appreciating them soon,very soon.

And that's why we call them puffballs.

Amanita phalloides



Not much to look at in photos, but apparently they look really tasty in person. Ironically, people say they are very tasty, and then they get extremely sick with severe liver damage and other unpleasantness. 14 people got sickened in the Bay Area last December. 3 will need liver transplants. The article I read earlier today suggested that this one mushroom may account for 80% of people poisoned by misidentified mushrooms worldwide.

Hot and humid for the last couple of days, so this afternoon ... the first yellow slime mold of the season appeared on a local garden bed.

I don't think there's a brighter yellow in nature.

^^Those remind me a little bit of the forest spirits in Princess Mononoke.

i've already posted this in display your artwork thread but i think it really belongs here among the cryptogams. yes i am proud of it it was made with a new mold making technique i've been getting into. hehe.





it's a cast crayon fantasy slime mold!
(so essentially each piece is also a drawing utensil)

gravestone lichens!


if i have a gravestone when i'm dead i would want it to be covered in lichens

i like to take 10-15 minutes to hang out in the courtyard & relax my mind before going into work. lately i've been collecting rocks but today i came across a wonderful array of birds nest fungi!

^Wow!