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The fly agaric is poisonous. It is even related to the extremely poisonous green tuberous manite! There are various toxins in the hat. It is not yet known what a mushroom uses poison for. Research is still being done. If you ingest the poison, you can become very ill. If you ingest enough poison, it will kill you! In the past, fly agarics were used in rituals. After ingesting the mushroom, shamans (a type of priest) experienced hallucinations.
Mushrooms such as the fly agaric sometimes stand in a circle. The cause of this can also be found under the ground, at the mycelium. When a mycelium grows, it does so in all directions. When the nutrients are used up in the middle of the mycelium, that part dies. This creates an open space in the middle of the mycelium. Only when the mushrooms grow out, you can see the witch circle.
mycelial armies on the rise ... ;)
A gorgeous cluster of ink cap and sulphur tuft fungi roaming in hidden spots of Langley Wood, New Forest.
A combination of mycelium and the very first beginning of a mushroom/fungus.
"Mycelium is the vegetative part of a fungus or fungus-like bacterial colony, consisting of a mass of branching, thread-like hyphae. The mass of hyphae is sometimes called shiro, especially within the fairy ring fungi. Fungal colonies composed of mycelium are found in and on soil and many other substrates. A typical single spore germinates into a homokaryotic mycelium, which cannot reproduce sexually; when two compatible homokaryotic mycelia join and form a dikaryotic mycelium, that mycelium may form fruiting bodies such as mushrooms."- WiKi
"De zwamvlok of is het netwerk van alle draden van een schimmel. De schimmeldraden zelf worden ook wel hyfen genoemd. Over het algemeen zit de zwamvlok onder de grond."-WiKi
Ruige weerschijnzwam (Inonotus hispidus)
De zwam leeft op de stammen van diverse boomsoorten, zoals es (Fraxinus excelsior). De stam wordt steeds rotter op de locatie van het mycelium van de zwam. De zwam kleurt van oranje naar zwart.
Barcelona, Spanje
Fruiting bodies (also known as mushrooms or toadstools) of the ghost fungus, Omphalotus nidiformis, taken at night, growing in a friend's backyard near where I live. The fruiting bodies grew over the next six days before they started to decompose.
Lighting conditions were not ideal as there was light from a neighbour's house. Ideally, it should be completely dark when photographing the bioluminescence of these fungi.
The gills of the fungus emit green light. However, humans perceive it as white light because we cannot see colour in low light conditions. The camera sensor can pick up the colour. Some processing.
The exact purpose of this bioluminescence is not known but it may be used to attract small insects which then transport the fungus' spores to new areas. I did see some very small insects and an amphipod on the fungus.
The fungus breaks down dead wood by forming a web of fine white root-like hyphae, which are referred to as the mycelium, in the rotting wood.
f/4 ISO 1600 30 secs Pentax 50mm f/1.4 Pentax K-1 MkII (A higher ISO would have been better)
Explored 7 May 2022
Hidden in the darkest corners of the forest, these Frosty Bonnets are translucent and only 4 - 5 mm high.
The fly agaric is poisonous. It is even related to the extremely poisonous green tuberous manite! There are various toxins in the hat. It is not yet known what a mushroom uses poison for. Research is still being done. If you ingest the poison, you can become very ill. If you ingest enough poison, it will kill you! In the past, fly agarics were used in rituals. After ingesting the mushroom, shamans (a type of priest) experienced hallucinations.
Mushrooms such as the fly agaric sometimes stand in a circle. The cause of this can also be found under the ground, at the mycelium. When a mycelium grows, it does so in all directions. When the nutrients are used up in the middle of the mycelium, that part dies. This creates an open space in the middle of the mycelium. Only when the mushrooms grow out, you can see the witch circle.
The fly agaric is poisonous. It is even related to the extremely poisonous green tuberous manite! There are various toxins in the hat. It is not yet known what a mushroom uses poison for. Research is still being done. If you ingest the poison, you can become very ill. If you ingest enough poison, it will kill you! In the past, fly agarics were used in rituals. After ingesting the mushroom, shamans (a type of priest) experienced hallucinations.
Mushrooms such as the fly agaric sometimes stand in a circle. The cause of this can also be found under the ground, at the mycelium. When a mycelium grows, it does so in all directions. When the nutrients are used up in the middle of the mycelium, that part dies. This creates an open space in the middle of the mycelium. Only when the mushrooms grow out, you can see the witch circle.
Random stuff from last weekend. Enjoy mid-week, all.
This little vine getting its start might be Parthenocissus quinquefolia, virginia creeper. Someone can let me know; I usually mis-Google plants.
A mushroom is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source.
The standard for the name "mushroom" is the cultivated white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus; hence the word "mushroom" is most often applied to those fungi (Basidiomycota, Agaricomycetes) that have a stem (stipe), a cap (pileus), and gills (lamellae, sing. lamella) on the underside of the cap. These gills produce microscopic spores that help the fungus spread across the ground or its occupant surface.
Mushroom describes a variety of gilled fungi, with or without stems, and the term is used even more generally, to describe both the fleshy fruiting bodies of some Ascomycota and the woody or leathery fruiting bodies of some Basidiomycota, depending upon the context of the word.
Many mushroom species produce secondary metabolites that can be toxic, mind-altering, antibiotic, antiviral, or bioluminescent. Although there are only a small number of deadly species, several others can cause particularly severe and unpleasant symptoms.
Toxicity likely plays a role in protecting the function of the basidiocarp: the mycelium has expended considerable energy and protoplasmic material to develop a structure to efficiently distribute its spores. One defense against consumption and premature destruction is the evolution of chemicals that render the mushroom inedible, either causing the consumer to vomit the meal, or to learn to avoid consumption altogether.
(Wikipedia)
“”" The mystery has been investigated by our special reporter Marjan, who once again called on the mycelium transporter, and the explanation for the strange bangs and other noises is actually quite simple.
Spikey has changed under the influence of the herbs used to make the tea. Apparently, this can just happen during Shoktober... So a warning is in order here: no herbal tea this week!
However, upon inquiry, it turned out that our sweet-looking Spiky (see first comment box) has no problem with being a little different for a while and was willing to show off the transformations being a 'mean cat'!
Hence the double portrait: Night and Day“”"
(to be continued)
Happy Shocktober and HSS ;-))
The one from five-a-day that didn't pass Covid-19 quarantine. White stolons with mycelium of Rhizopus stolonifera fungi (also known as Black bread mould) colonising a peach fruit. Bath, UK
This pretty little Indian pipe plant is one of my favorite late-summer/fall wildflowers to find out in rich forest habitats. Since these plants contain no chlorophyll, they rely on nearby fungi for their fuel source - tapping into a mushroom mycelium and stealing small amounts of food. This particular Indian pipe was almost certainly associating with golden chanterelle mushrooms that themselves are attached to giant bur oak trees in a symbotic relationship. I enjoyed feasting on a few of those golden chanterelles too.
Es wird vermutet, dass der Auslöser für Haareis das im Holz enthaltene Pilzmyzel ist, da im gleichen Holz winteraktive Gallertpil-ze auftreten. Das Haareis dient dem Baumpilz als eine Art Frostschutzmittel, das Wasser gefriert nicht in den Poren des Holzes, sondern wird an die Oberfläche befördert und verhindert dadurch ein durchfrieren.
It is assumed that the trigger for hair ice is the fungal mycelium contained in the wood, since winter-active jelly fungi occur in the same wood. The hair ice serves the tree fungus as a kind of antifreeze, the water does not freeze in the pores of the wood, but is transported to the surface and thus prevents freezing.
Drôle de coïncidende !
Il y a deux semaines, je photographiais mes premières Rhyssa persuasoria. En me renseignant sur elles, j'apprenais qu'elles parasitaient les larves du Sirex géant, Urocerus gigas. Je me disais que j'aimerais bien voir cette espèce un jour. Et ce week-end surprise ! Autour d'un gros tas de bois fraichement coupé, de nombreuses rhysses et... cette sirex en train de pondre !
C'est un gros hyménoptère, pouvant mesurer jusqu'à 40mm, qui fait partie des Symphytes (comme les tenthrèdes). On les appelle communément guêpe à scie. Les deux sexes sont dépourvus d'aiguillons venimeux et ne peuvent donc pas piquer. Mais la ressemblance avec un frelon est assez marquée lorsqu'on ne connait pas bien les insectes, ce qui peut lui porter chance... ou au contraire malheur...
La femelle pond dans le bois mourant de conifères, mais les troncs récemment abattus l'attirent également. Il arrive parfois que la larve continue son développement dans du bois destiné à faire des charpentes par exemple. L'adulte éclot alors dans la maison ! Mais pas d'inquiétude si cela vous arrive, les sirex ne pondent pas à nouveau dans ce genre de bois. Peut être pas assez nourrissant pour les larves, en tout cas pas intéressant ! Et en plus elles ne piquent pas, donc aucune excuse pour ne pas les faire sortir de la maison au lieu de les tuer ;)
Autre fait intéressant, lorsque la femelle pond dans le bois, elle inocule en même temps les spores de champignons du genre Stereum. En se développant, ces spores forment du mycélium indispensable au développement des larves.
Albine, Tarn
This button top Mycelium was growing in a grove of green. And, the green was growing out of the end of a suspended, cut log. It is interesting the "Worlds within worlds", as we look smaller and smaller.
It's not hard to see why these pretty little Indian pipe flowers are often referred to as ghost plants. They contain no green chlorophyll to make energy from the sun and instead tap into certain mushroom mycelium for their food source. In return, they share some nutrients stored in their roots with the friendly Russula mushroom.
Did you know... under every footstep you take in the forest are about 300 miles of mycelium allowing everything you are looking at to communicate with each other. The mushroom is merely the apple on the tree.
Thanks for taking a look!
This is an amazing creature - a fungus/rust that in the form shown has Red Cedar as its host. In Ontario, it is unique to the Ottawa Valley and south, in Quinte, because of the abundance of Red Cedars. During my backroading a few weeks ago I came across it and became fascinated with it.
For context: this is about the size of a baseball.
The fungus has multiple life forms, which appear in alternating years, and each of which requires a different host. The fungus cannot transmit from Red Cedar to Red Cedar, nor can it appear annually.
The pictured form begins in late fall as the brown gall, which contains mycelium. In the spring, especially around water, it sprouts the orange tentacles, called telial horns. They emit teliaspores only during rainfall, and the spores travel to apple trees and infect them only after the petals have fallen from the apple flowers. And the infection only happens during rainfall, through water transmission into the apple tree.
The spores can travel 6-8 kilometres (3-5 miles), but are more likely to be effective in close range. When it is not wet from rain, the horns dry out and contract. A few hours after I secured this image, the orange horns were dried out and dark brown.
In late summer, the spores form clusters on the apple leaves and on the fruit itself. In the fall they in turn release different spores that form small green clusters on the Cedars, and the following spring, green galls form on the Cedars - but only in the spring a year later do the Green galls turn brown, and emit the horns etc.
It is found in the wild on decaying trees after rainy seasons followed by dry spells where the mushrooms are naturally collected.
Using the Tamron SP AF 60mm f/2 Di II MACRO 1:1 LD (IF) (model G005N II) lens.
From my garden.
I used 4 stacked photos for this end result.
The View from Teegarden's Star- pt 2
It didn’t rain inside the structure, but only dripped moisture constantly keeping the atmosphere not only warm but humid. Eons later, those who lived in the farthest domes cultivated mycelium and fungi and developed a rather spongy, hairless type of mottled skin indicative of shady, damp abodes.
You really can't make this stuff up. This Entoloma species gets attacked by Armillaria mushrooms, otherwise known as honey mushrooms. The battle wages underground where the honey mushroom mycelium inserts itself into the Entoloma mycelium and sends cells out to invade the Entoloma tissues just like a cancer. In this photo you can see just a few normal Entoloma mushrooms with their pale gray caps. All those white blobs are "aborted" Entolomas where the honey mushroom cells have succeeded in altering normal growth. Believe it or not, but those aborted entolomas are among the best-tasting mushrooms around. Known also as the "shrimp of the woods", they have the texture and taste of shrimp tails! I have a ton of fun finding them on the forest floor, for they often look like big popcorn pieces scattered about, free for the picking.
I always enjoy finding these fanciful little fungi out in the forest, for their enchanting forms must have been planted there by tiny elves and fairies to play on after dark. By the way, here in Iowa I only seem to see them around old oak trees, but they are also associated with beech trees where they grow. They are likely mycorrhizal with those two trees, meaning their mycelium is tied into the oak or beech tree's roots and both benefit from the connection.
These spotted coralroot orchids always grow in the same primeval forests where fairies like to frolic after dark. In fact, you'd have just about as much luck finding fairies out here as finding this woodland wildflower since it's so tiny - those white lower lips with their pretty purple spots are only 3 mm wide. These remarkable orchids grow in deep shade and have no chlorophyll anyway so they get all their nutrition by tapping into the mycelium (root system) of nearby Russula mushrooms. Those bright red Russula mushrooms are stunning sights in their own right.
These aborted entolomas are really amazing mushrooms. That round tan mushroom at the upper left in the photo is the normal form for this species but they share the forest floor with another mushroom, Armillaria mellea or the honey mushroom, that doesn't much like them. The Armillaria mycelium invades the Entoloma mycelium (or root system) and causes many of the Entoloma mushrooms to abort their typical growth and turn into white twisted jelly-like blobs. Surprisingly, these white "aborted" entolomas are edible and are delicious after being boiled in a big pot of water. That's probably why they are often referred to as the "shrimp of the woods" and they even have the texture and fine taste of a peeled shrimp tail.
These strange mushrooms have a sensational story to tell. The normal form of E. abortivum can be seen in those two mushrooms with beige caps in the lower right. Since there are several similar Entoloma species that can do you great bodily harm, you don't dare eat these. However, another mushroom in the neighborhood known as the honey mushroom (Armillaria mellea), attacks and invades the Entoloma mycelium, eventually deforming and destroying the emerging fruiting forms. Those awful-looking aborted forms that resemble large spongy pieces of popcorn are actually edible and I consider them to be one of the finest fungal delicacies in the forest! In fact, they are commonly called the shrimp of the woods, for good cause.
Platystomos vient du grec “platy” qui signifie “aplati” ou “large” et “stoma” qui signifie “bouche”. Inutile de préciser d'où vient ce nom de genre !
Les coléoptères de cette espèce sont plutôt nocturnes, mais on peut les rencontrer en journée immobiles sur les branches ou les troncs.
Les larves se développent dans le bois mort de divers feuillus où elles se nourrissent de mycélium. Elles préfèrent les branches mortes endommagées par les champignons (notamment la Daldinie concentrique – Daldinia concentrica sur les frênes) ou par le feu.
Bien que largement répartie, l'espèce n'est pas abondante. Pour se maintenir, elle a besoin de vieilles forêts de feuillus préservées, où elle trouvera le bois mort indispensable à son développement.
Ici, il s'agit d'un mâle avec ses longues antennes. Celles de la femelle sont plus courtes.
Plus d'infos ici : jessica-joachim.com/insectes/coleopteres-scarabees-coccin...
Honey mushrooms are one of the last mushrooms to emerge around here in autumn, though the big bunches popped out while I was on vacation. This particular species, A. mellea, has the distinction of being the biggest living organism on earth - one particular mycelium stretching out for 3.8 km across Oregon's Blue Mountains. Note the honey-colored cap and the distinctive ring around its stem. This is a very choice edible, but collectors beware because a somewhat similar mushroom, the deadly galerina, will kill you in short order. Just be sure to make a spore print if you're unsure about your ID, which will be white if you have the honey mushroom (brown for the deadly galerina). I had some honey mushrooms for supper tonight and they were to die for.
The Netherlans
A fairy ring, also known as fairy circle, elf circle, elf ring[1] or pixie ring, is a naturally occurring ring or arc of mushrooms. They are found mainly in forested areas, but also appear in grasslands] or rangelands. Fairy rings are detectable by sporocarps (fungal spore pods) in rings or arcs, as well as by a necrotic zone (dead grass), or a ring of dark green grass. Fungus mycelium is present in the ring or arc underneath. The rings may grow to over 10 metres (33 ft) in diameter, and they become stable over time as the fungus grows and seeks food underground.
~~~~~hmmmm…,I am the transporter of the mycelium and I can take you to any destination and back again, of course ;-), ….but then I have to swallow you first……. hmmmm…..
……..but don't worry, you won't be harmed.
Marjan has just undergone this process and is now on her way to her origami family for a festive reunion. In two weeks' time, I will “bring her back”, hmmmm……
Well,…….you know where to find me, in case you need me………hmmmm…….
Happy Shocktober……...~~~~~
THANKS FOR YOUR VISIT AND FAVES
ON THE REACTIONS I WILL TRY TO RESPOND BACK
De berkenzwam of berkendoder (Fomitopsis betulina)
De schimmel groeit voornamelijk op dood, maar soms ook op levend hout, wat uiteindelijk de boom zal vellen.
De droge zwam opensnijden lukt nauwelijks. Het verdroogde mycelium is taai. In de natuur worden de droge zwammen opgevreten door larven van boomzwamkevers. Alleen het witte vlies is ook voor deze kevers onverteerbaar.
Van de berkenzwam is bekend dat hij stoffen bevat met medicinale toepassingen.
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The birch fungus or birch killer (Fomitopsis betulina)
The fungus mainly grows on dead, but sometimes also on living wood, which will eventually kill the tree.
Cutting open the dry fungus is hardly possible. The dried out mycelium is tough. In nature, the dry fungi are eaten by larvae of tree fungus beetles. Only the white membrane is indigestible for these beetles.
The birch mushroom is known to contain substances with medicinal applications.
These bizarre-looking white blobs are one of my favorite mushrooms to find and then fix up for a meal. You might better understand why when you know their common name among mushroom foragers is "shrimp of the woods" and that comes pretty close to describing what they taste like. How they got to look this way is rather amazing, since a "normal" aborted entoloma mushroom is a boring gray "toadstool". However, if you remember the honey mushroom I posted on Flickr yesterday, the honey mushroom mycelium (root system) attacks any aborted entolomas in the area and leaves them looking deformed like this - turning from a gray mushroom into a shriveled white mass. In fact, researchers have found tiny honey mushroom hyphae or root tissue inside these aborted entoloma forms so the honey mushrooms move right in to do their damage - bad for the entoloma mushroom but great for us if we like to eat mushrooms. Eating the normal gray entoloma mushroom form is not advised since some similar Entolomas are very toxic and you might pick the wrong one.
These tiny yet spectacular orchids lack chlorophyll and so collect their nourishment by tapping their root system into the mycelium mat of Russula mushrooms and stealing fungal reserves. The Russula mycelium is tied into a big oak tree's branching roots and doing a very similar thing - talk about a tangled web of intrigue.
"Armillaria tabescens is a species of fungus in the family Physalacriaceae. It is a plant pathogen. The mycelium of the fungus is bioluminescent. Armillaria species infect a wide variety of woody plants. The species can be cooked and eaten, even being regarded as choice, but has been reported to cause upset stomachs." [iNaturalist.org] Found on the verge of 40-acre Lake, Brazos Bend State Park, Needville, Texas.
Golden chanterelles also connect their mycelium, or root system, to an aged oak tree's roots. Both the mushroom and oak tree benefit from this symbiotic relationship, since the tree(s) get valuable minerals from the mushroom's mycelium. This is by far the best-tasting mushroom on the planet.
A mushroom, or toadstool, is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground, on soil, or on its food source. The standard for the name mushroom is the cultivated white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus; hence the word mushroom is most often applied to those fungi (Basidiomycota, Agaricomycetes) that have a stem (stipe), a cap (pileus), and gills (lamellae, sing. lamella) on the underside of the cap. Mushroom also describes a variety of other gilled fungi, with or without stems, therefore the term is used to describe the fleshy fruiting bodies of some Ascomycota. These gills produce microscopic spores that help the fungus spread across the ground or its occupant surface. Forms deviating from the standard morphology usually have more specific names, such as bolete, puffball, stinkhorn, and morel, and gilled mushrooms themselves are often called agarics in reference to their similarity to Agaricus or their order Agaricales. By extension, the term mushroom can also refer to either the entire fungus when in culture, the thallus (called a mycelium) of species forming the fruiting bodies called mushrooms, or the species itself. 34093
Also known as summer coralroot, the scientific name is Corallorhiza maculata. This rare orchid wildflower lacks chlorophyll and taps into the mycelium of Russula mushrooms (which are spectacular in their own right) for sustenance. I'll probably post a remarkable red Russula mushroom photo someday soon. Anyway, note the tiny red spots on those flowers' white lower lips.
Mushrooms have been popping up among the leaves and fallen trees following recent rains. This is a moss bell mushroom (Galerina sp ?) growing among a floor of moss (Entodon cladorrhizans - glaze moss??) with spore capsules.
Indian pipe is just beginning to bloom around here. Also known as the ghost flower, the plant produces no chlorophyll and so taps into the mycelium of surrounding Russula mushrooms. I'll bet you really want to see one of those red Russulas since I've mentioned them so often lately. Soon. These plants look waxy and rather cold and clammy, hence yet another local name - corpse flower.
A single white mushroom stands in the leaves and needles that carpet a forest floor in early fall near the coast of Maine.
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A mushroom, or toadstool, is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground, on soil, or on its food source. The standard for the name mushroom is the cultivated white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus; hence the word mushroom is most often applied to those fungi (Basidiomycota, Agaricomycetes) that have a stem (stipe), a cap (pileus), and gills (lamellae, sing. lamella) on the underside of the cap. Mushroom also describes a variety of other gilled fungi, with or without stems, therefore the term is used to describe the fleshy fruiting bodies of some Ascomycota. These gills produce microscopic spores that help the fungus spread across the ground or its occupant surface. Forms deviating from the standard morphology usually have more specific names, such as bolete, puffball, stinkhorn, and morel, and gilled mushrooms themselves are often called agarics in reference to their similarity to Agaricus or their order Agaricales. By extension, the term mushroom can also refer to either the entire fungus when in culture, the thallus (called a mycelium) of species forming the fruiting bodies called mushrooms, or the species itself. 33237
A last greeting from the Mycelium
Ein letzter Gruß vom Myzel
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