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18 Nov 2019, 4:28 pm

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I know nothing about Fungi, but it's one of the things I like to take photographs of when I spot it!

The variation of form and colour amazes me :heart:

Here's some pictures I've taken of some:

That would be a Russula. Can't tell what species — there are many and they're hard to tell apart.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Russula&atb=v ... &ia=images

Russula atropurpurea?

Even a professional mycologist giving a lecture I attended confessed he wasn't able to distinguish all the Russula species.

The resemblance between them is uncanny- with the large white spot and everything

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If anyone knows what any of them are etc. please do let me know!

Trametes versicolor?

Thank you!

It looks beautiful close up- reminds me of tree rings.

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18 Nov 2019, 7:32 pm

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A cross-section of Pisolithus sp. (possibly Pisolithus arhizus)-
At the disturbed edge of a mixed hardwood/coniferous forest in NW Georgia, US. Growing near roots of downed trees.

I remember finding one of those once – the only one I've ever seen. I've probably passed them a hundred times, but it was very well camouflaged on the forest floor in the leaf litter.

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18 Nov 2019, 7:36 pm

^^ Also called Turkey Tail, and you can guess why.

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19 Nov 2019, 3:49 am

Darmok wrote:

^^ Also called Turkey Tail, and you can guess why.

Can definitely see why. It looks like lots of miniature turkeys to me now! :lol:

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20 Nov 2019, 6:34 pm

Sadly, rain and humidity have been in short supply around here, so my fungi hunts are basically non-existent. I dream of plains of Amanita muscaria; they're beautiful and very interesting chemically and historically.

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20 Nov 2019, 7:36 pm

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Have to settle for pictures.

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21 Nov 2019, 2:35 am

They're really amazing.

You have an anticholinergic compound and also an anticonvulsant compound within the same mushroom, and to top it off, the former can be converted into the latter via various methods too (though you could say the latter in the mushroom itself is due to the former from the natural decarbonization that occurs in the wild), which people historically did across the world for medicinal, religious and other purposes (and chemists do today for research purposes, in addition to creating more potent forms of the same).

Though, people tend to mistake the anticonvulsant compound as the hallucinogenic part, because it's not; that's a pure GABAa agonist. The anticholinergic compound is what can lead to your typical anticholinergic syndrome, which will bring on the hallucinations (among other things).

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24 Nov 2019, 7:22 pm

Just another nice Amanita composition. They tend to be photogenic for some reason.

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01 Dec 2019, 9:02 am

Some more:

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25 Dec 2019, 10:55 am

This link has the most complete, interesting and beautiful images of mushrooms I have ever seen. The amount of information and images has really mushroomed since I was in uni.

https://www.pinterest.com/dragonak/fungi/

Here is one example, since I like purple so much.

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26 Dec 2019, 3:19 am

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those are the purtiest shrooms i've ever seen! :heart:

what colors in that photo :jester:

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26 Dec 2019, 6:19 am

Darmok wrote:

We have appreciation threads for many things here at WP (skunks, Babylon 5, cartoon characters, etc.), but as far as I could tell we have no appreciation thread for mushrooms, lichens, and all manner of other strange and wonderful forms of fungi and their allies.

So post pictures of your favorite mushrooms, slime molds, lichens, brackets, pixie cups, and molds. They're everywhere, and so many of them are beautiful.

Red chanterelles: