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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 7h

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On this #WorldMushroomDay, educate yourself on the importance of #fungaria for the preservation and appreciation of our Opisthokont cousins.
purdueag.exposure.co/herbaria

PRESERVING THE PAST FOR FUTURE DISCOVERY - Purdue University College of Agriculture

On the ground floor of Lilly Hall of Life Sciences, you will find the Purdue Herbaria, a collection of plant and fungi specimens, renowned for their vast biodiversity and recognized as the most import...

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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 4h

Interesting choice of fungus to illustrate this story - Psilocybe subaeruginosa / cyanescens, a powerfully hallucinogenic species!

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Annie Irving @sconzani.bsky.social · 6h

This morning I revisited the site where I found the Date Waxcaps (Hygrocybe spadicea) to take a better look and get more photos. There are more than I thought - they're well camouflaged - perhaps a dozen, some still just emerging brown bumps. Still buzzing from the find. 😍💚 #fungi @sewbrec.org.uk

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Earth BioGenome Project 🌍 @ebpgenome.bsky.social · 23h

🧬 Not all DNA comes out easily! Some species lock their secrets behind tough shells, rigid walls, or tricky chemistry. Extracting high-quality DNA can mean cracking exoskeletons, dissolving cell walls, or working around inhibitory compounds — science meets detective work 🔬💥

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IMA Fungus @imafungus.pensoft.net · 13h

Citizen science shows that the American fungus 𝐴𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑜𝑏𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑢𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑢𝑠 has rapidly spread inland across Poland, becoming a popular and locally adopted edible mushroom with many new records and vernacular names.

🔗 doi.org/10.3897/imaf...

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Jon Dunkelman @jondun.bsky.social · 23h

The Wacaps are arriving in droves here now - after a slow start. This is an uncommon one which I recorded here two years ago and it's fruiting again. The Papillate Waxcap (Hygrocybe subpapillata). #FungiFriends #Waxcaps

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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 14h

Tawny Grisettes - Amanita fulva in the woods

Brown mushrooms surrounded by fallen leaves

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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 15h

Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews.
#Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
#MycoBookClub

BRITISH PUFFBALLS EARTHSTARS

A N STINKHORNS

AN ACCOUNT OF THE BRITISH GASTEROID FUNGI

D N Pegler

T Læssøe

B M Spooner

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 1d

It's been a late start this year with the dry weather but the grassland fungi are finally appearing. I'm going to post a waxcap species each day as we move through peak fruiting season, hoping to encourage folks to recognise and record this important group. @plantlifeuk.bsky.social

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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 1d

If you're thinking Date Waxcap, then I think you're probably right. Nice find! @waxcapscooch.bsky.social

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Roger Harding @rogercharding.bsky.social · 1d

Inspired by all the amazing fungi photos posted here recently, I took my camera on a stroll through an Exmoor wood.

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Chris Lansdell 💚💛🍄‍🟫🪲 @chrislansdell.bsky.social · 1d

Double earthstar day - Dwarf and Tiny in Holkham/Burnham Overy Dunes 😀

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Clare Blencowe @clareblencowe.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, this must be my cue to repost the interview I did with the author 😁

▶️ mycobookclub.blogspot.com/p/interviews...

Interviews

Q&A with Dr. Toshimitsu Fukiharu, author of Mushroom Botanical Art Tuesday 1 March 2022 Dr. Toshimitsu Fukiharu is a curator and senior rese...

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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 1d

Leccinum versipelle, seen today #FungiFriends

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 1d

After complaints about Timothy Dexter's A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (1797) being entirely devoid of punctuation, in future editions the eccentric businessman supplied a supplemental page so that people “may peper and solt as they please”: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dexter-pickle

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Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 2d

It's mushroom season in the Northern Hemisphere 🍄

Here's a look at the chemistry of arguably the most iconic mushroom, fly agaric, and what makes them so brightly coloured and hallucinogenic: www.compoundchem.com/2024/11/11/f...

#ChemSky 🧪

Infographic on fly agaric mushrooms, with an image of the mushrooms in the middle (red with white spots). The chemical structures of the mushroom's pigments are shown, including muscarufin, the primary pigment responsible for their red colour. The compounds behind the mushrooms' psychoactive properties, ibotenic acid and muscimol, are also shown. These compounds imitate neurotransmitters in the brain to exert their effects.

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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 1d

Senior Curatorial Fellow (Modern & Contemporary Art) with Birmingham Museums Trust #MuseumJobs #ArtsJobs careers.birminghammuseums.org.uk/job/4bae0fc7...

Senior Curatorial Fellow (Modern & Contemporary Art) - Job page - Birmingham Museums Careers

careers.birminghammuseums.org.uk

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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 1d

This is how all libraries should look:

ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 1d

Édouard John Mentha, Swiss
Born: March 9, 1858, Geneva, Switzerland
Died: 1915, Geneva, Switzerland
Bibliotheksinterieur mit lesender Magd (Maid Reading in a Library)
By 1915
Oil on masonite
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder if it's the same chemical, sotolon, that's responsible for the smell of curry and maple syrup in some milkcaps? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sotolon

Sotolon - Wikipedia

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Stevie P @stevieparsons.bsky.social · 2d

It might not look much, but this is one of the UK and Europe’s rarest fungi - Poronia punctata (The Nail Fungus). Hours of checking New Forest pony dung finally paid off ! See ALT text for more details of this fungi #fungi #NewForest #FungiFriends @newforestnpa.bsky.social

The Nail fungus (so called because of the nail like shape of the fruiting body) Poronia punctata, is one of the rarest fungi in the UK and Europe . UK distribution is essentially limited to the New Forest. It is only found on the dung of horses and ponies that have been feeding on unimproved acidic grassland and heath vegetation - so New Forest pony dung is an ideal habitat. Farming herbicides, plant pesticides and synthetic chemicals used in the 'worming' of horses have been blamed for the demise of this fungus. Note: if you type Nail Fungus into an internet search you are likely to find far more unpleasant photos 😂

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Jim Blackler @blackler.bsky.social · 1d

The underside of Turkeytails are full of visual energy.

🍄 #FungiFriends

A black and white close-up of the pores on the underside of a bracket fungus.

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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 1d

My guesses for these would be a Pluteus species, a slime mould and Glistening Inkcaps. I'm not sure about the last one

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All Things Fungi @allthingsfungi.bsky.social · 2d

My favourite find from last week - Entoloma euchroum. A great record for the festival site. 😊 @atffungifestival.bsky.social #conservationphotography #allthingsfungi

Entoloma euchroum. A trio of striking violet coloured mushrooms. A Focused stacked macro image with a shallow depth of field.

A gill shot of Entoloma euchroum. A trio of striking violet coloured mushrooms.

Using a forensiograph scale ruler to show the size of the fungi.

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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 1d

pie.co.jp/book/i/5475/...

Mushroom Botanical Art | PIE International

The bestselling collection of botanical drawings of mushrooms is now available in a new English edition!!

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Archives & Collections, Library of Birmingham @theironroom.bsky.social · 2d

Join us for the annual Chris Upton Memorial Lecture on Mon 3rd November at 5.30pm tinyurl.com/UptonBaskerv... Professor Caroline Archer-Parré will be giving her talk: Inhuming and exhuming: John Baskerville’s death, burial, and post-mortem life #LibraryofBham @typetweets.bsky.social #BaskervilleSoc

Image 1 : A book - front cover facing on. Cover is a reproduction of a painting depicting a male figure wearing the traditional eighteenth-century garb of a gentleman - wig with curled up sides and frock coat with neckerchief. Title of the book at the top of the page is John Baskerville: art and industry of the Enlightenment. Names of the editors beneath this on the left of the cover.

Image 2 – Two books resting on a table, both front covers facing on. Title is A History of Birmingham in the top left of the front cover. An illustration of a bustling square – Georgian and early Victorian architecture. A group of people carrying a jardinière in the bottom left of the picture and a horse and carriage in the right. People populating the various corners of the illustration. A bookcase behind the table on which the books are resting.

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