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Next step is to do this with one of the copies of Entangled Life printed with ink made from mushrooms...

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💛 slime mold plasmodium 💛

slime molds normally live as single cell organisms within a substrate, breaking down rotting vegetation and consuming bacteria, fungi, and yeasts. but when food is scarce and the conditions are right they send out a chemical signal which causes them to congregate together and merge into a mass of plasmodium. the slime mold moves, consumes, and disperses as plasmodium until it finds a suitable place to form fruit bodies and send out its spores.

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slime mold

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slime mold

via fungi.fella / instagram

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On slime moulds and their beauty

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From #easternbiological

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You sure know a lot about mushrooms, Marnie.

Father taught me when I was little. I once brought home three bags full of mushrooms. You should’ve seen the look on my mother’s face!

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Who’s excited for morel season?

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This website gathers stories from around the world of matsutake scientists, forest managers, pickers, buyers, grocers, chefs, and consumers. They tell us of lively worlds emerging from every matsutake forest and marketplace. Their stories tell us of many kinds of lives. These lives are simultaneously distinctive and connected across the globe.

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Beautiful embroidered mushrooms by Lemon Pepper Studio

https://www.lemonpepperstudio.com/gallery-1

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TSUKIJI VEGETABLE MARKET

Tokyo, Japan

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This is a Matsutake (Tricholoma magnivelare) from Monday’s Los Angeles Mycological Society meeting.

Ohmygod it smelt so good, it smelt like human and the best perfume. If this mushroom was a person, I’d fall in love with them. Some people didn’t like the smell so much, which I thought was odd. But there was a small group that thought the smell was supremeee (and we kept passing it around).

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Coloured Illustrations of Fungi of Japan by Rokuya Imazeki and Tsuguo Hongo (1957), Vol I, Plate 9

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Kitty dressed as a Matsutake Mushroom

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