Tired of mushrooms being seen as just drugs. I recently got a mushroom shirt and someone implied it was drug related :(. Mushrooms are so much more!!! They do so much cool stuff!!

Anyway please reblog with cool mushroom facts to help prove my point.

These bad babies can eat plastic. Oyster mushrooms will save the planet.

two questions.

Sozo what's 9+10

do you know of the Cortinarius violaceus?

It is 19. Obviously.

Cortinarius violaceus, common name; Violet Webcap. A lovely purple mushroom. Typically with a tall stipe and textured cap. Some say they are edible but just not worth it as they do not taste as distinct as they look. However consuming them may cause extreme stomach pain and other adverse health affects. It is recommended not to consume any type of cortinarius mushrooms due to this common trait.

mushroom girl! this one is called the blue elf cup!

this fungus grows in lots of different types of trees and usually stains the wood a blueish color. this wood is often used in artwork and other woodworking projects due to the unique designs it makes!

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Syathus Striatus

Syathus Striatus, also known as The fluted birds nest, is a mushroom found in temperate areas across most of the world. The mushrooms namesake (the egg looking blobs in the middle of the cap) are actually full of spores. The mushrooms caps are built so falling raindrops can fling the egg-shaped-spore-blobs in the middle, off planting new mushrooms.

fact source: wikipedia

image source: forest floor narrative

✨🍄 some fun mushroom facts: 🍄✨

Fungi’s mycelium has more networks than our brain has neuropathy. It works similarly through electrical impulses and is used by trees too to communicate and exchange nutrients.

Mushrooms can create airflow to disperse spores'.

Mushrooms and agricultural waste can be used to create white, lightweight, biodegradable bricks durable enough for construction.

Mushrooms are more closely related to people than to plants.

There are over 75 glow-in-the-dark mushrooms.

Black Trumpet

The Black Trumpet, or Craterellus cornucopioides, is an edible mushroom. This fungus is found in woods in North America, East Asia, and Europe.  It mostly grows under oak, beech or other broad-leaved trees, especially in moss in moist spots on heavy calcareous soil. It seems to appears from June to November, and in the UK, from August to November.

The fruiting body does not have a separation into stalk and cap like most mushrooms, but is shaped like a funnel expanded at the top, normally up to about 4 inches tall and .5–7 cm in diameter. The upper and inner surface is dark or black, and on rare occasions yellow. The lower and outer surface is a much lighter shade of grey. The fertile surface is somewhat smooth but may be wrinkled. There are no poisonous mushrooms that look like the Black Trumpet, making this a great mushroom for beginners to identify. However when it comes to locating them out in the wilderness, they’re not always easy to find. Their queer shape and dark color make them look like minuscule black holes on the forest floor.

Black trumpets are also edible! They contain 69.45 g of protein, 13.44 g of carbohydrates (mostly mannitol), 4.88 g of fat, fatty acids (primarily of the polyunsaturated variety), phenols, flavonoids, 87 mg of vitamin C, and vitamin B12. They don't look like something you'd willingly eat, but they have a very good flavor! When dried their flavor acquires black truffle.

The Black Trumpet was first described in 1753 by Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus and known as “Trompette de la mort” which translates to “Trumpet of Death” in France!

No way, three mushroom blogs in one day???!! I rlly need to get new hobbies….

Bibliography: mushroom-appreciation northspore wikipedia

Did you guys know that Oregon is home to the largest living organism on earth? It's called the humongous fungus and it's 3.5 miles big. Most of it is underneath the ground, so technically it's a bunch of mushrooms connected by mycelium. Still all one thing. The reason that this particular mushroom is able to grow so large is that it most likely feeds on tree roots. It's honestly really to read about and there's quite a few articles on it.

can folks here tell me some interesting mushroom facts?

The largest organism on earth being a giant Armillaria ostoyae fungus in Oregon is pretty cool in theory until you learn that it’s a parasitic fungus that is only that large because we’ve fucked everything up so bad. Pollution? It weaponizes that shit against the trees it infects. Droughts? Weak trees mean easy pickings. Global Warming? Double whammy, easier growth AND weakened trees. Under normal circumstances it should only spread so far, and go after particularly weak trees, but now vast swathes of Oregon forest are dying and it is not estimated to stop spreading any time soon, if ever.

Random mushrooms that have grown in my backyard! Does anyone know their names???

United States of America 🇺🇸:

In the state of Oregon, USA, you can find an individual Armillaria ostoyae, colloquially referred to as “humongous fungus”. It the largest known single living organism in the world by area, with most of its body being underground. Scientists estimate that it covers over 9.6 squared kilometres, and likely far more than that.

It’s edible - though its taste is of questionable quality - and often mistaken as a single innocent mushroom, as bits of the fungus “sprouts” on occasion. It is also likely over 2400 years old.

Oh, and it’s bioluminescent. So basically, the fucker glows!

parrot waxcaps

What is a parrot waxcap?

a parrot waxcap is a unique type of fungi! They have a lovely green and yellow color, and are usually quite small. Sometimes they can ve found in blue or purple colours!

They usually appear in summer and autumn on roadside verges, in cropped grassland and in churchyards

they are usually considered edible (but don’t have a very good taste).

Tiny growing fungi on this pinecone.

freaky fungi fact - mycology vocab :-)

deliquescence : the process of certain fungi (most often ink caps) where they turn to liquid.

this process is observed in a handful of different fungi !! as their caps mature, they furl inward & turn to a spore-filled, inky liquid.

yes, this liquid can be harvested & used for actual pen ink. :-) just make sure to add preservatives to avoid it causing a rotten smell.

to use it in a sentence : the mushrooms above are experiencing deliquescence ; they are deliquescing !! ink caps are deliquescent.

Imagine the fellowship showing each other pictures and paintings of themselves as children

Everyone cooes over Gimli with the tiniest little beard and mini axe, the Hobbits all sleeping in a little pile of curls and tails, Aragorn in formal elven clothing but his hair is still as messy cause they couldn’t style it even if they tried, Boromir holding a baby Faramir cause he refused to part with him after he was born

And then Legolas shows the ugliest fucking thing any of them had ever seen, looking like a fleshy newborn bird with enormous eyes and ears, and he’s proudly boasting over how he’s seen as one of them most beautiful elven infants in millennium, and the rest of them are afraid to say anything because What The Fuck