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[mycoblogg]

FOTD #040 : fairy fingers! (clavaria fragilis)

fairy fingers (also called white worm coral & white spindle) is a saprotrophic fungus in the family clavariaceae. it is usually found across the northern hemisphere, but has also been found in australia & south africa :-)

the big question : can i bite it?? yeah !! though it is nonpoisonous, it is too fragile to be of substantial worth in cooking, but it is edible nonetheless.

c. fragilis description :

"the fruit bodies of c. fragilis are irregularly tubular, smooth to furrowed, sometimes compressed, very fragile, white, up to 15 cm (6 in) tall by 5 mm (0.2 in) thick, & typically grow in dense clusters. the tip of the fruit body tapers to a point, & may yellow & curve with age. there is no distinct stalk, although it is evident as a short, semitransparent zone of tissue at the base of the club. microscopically, the hyphae of the flesh are swollen up to 12 µm wide & lack clamp connections. the spores are smooth, colourless, ellipsoid to oblong, measuring 5–7 by 3–4 µm. the spores are white in deposit. the basidia (spore bearing cells) measure 40–50 by 6–8 µm, & lack clamps at their bases."

[images : source & source] [fungus description : source]

"i love these guys teehee<3 they're so ethereal."

[spindle-and-nima]

Top 10 noses that should be kissed

[xbomboi]

apple: briar, remember when we first became best friends?

briar: only when i’m thinking about where my life went wrong.

[yarapara]

Since it's still pride month I decided to share more SneeuwRoosje art! Sleeping beauty's outfit is based from how she looks in the Efteling fairytale forest I wanted to give Snowwhite a different outfit based on a certain book ;)

[hmvw2015]

He was kinda hard to draw, ngl.

[milkweedman]

Filled up this spindle with those rolags made from shetland combing waste, and just finished 2 plying it (not blocked yet though).

I really love the texture of it but unfortunately the majority of the garlic roots fell out during plying (and getting them to stay in during spinning was only sometimes successful). So I don't know if I'll bother putting them in the next batch of rolags, even though I do love the effect. Spinning and garlic roots do not seem to want to go together :( I might end up using the rest of them as core material for a very small basket.

[around-your-throat]

patruick :^)

[pigeon-feet]

all the yarn i’ve made so far, chronological from left to right

[marystaceylala]

[brarb-does-stuff]

I got hand cards and 20 grams of floof in white and blue today, so I tried to mix a gradient (without measuring anything, just by feel). Trying to go a bit thinner than my previous woolen spun yarn to get a few more meters out of it.

[rachelsfindings]

Deck Roof Extensions Deck - mid-sized coastal backyard deck idea with a roof extension

[spindle-and-nima]

Sea slugging on a sunday

[daichisamas-icons]

Backyard (DC Metro)

[tathrin]

Reminder, you have a few days left to listen to this masterpiece if you haven’t yet!

[oscaronthegloryroad]

I am on day six of a six day work week, and I just can't do this like I used to.

If my coworker doesn't have his car back by tomorrow morning i will have to cover for him tomorrow. Meaning that I will have worked Sunday -> Tuesday, Wednesday off, Thursday -> Tuesday. With the ever increasing responsibilities and decreasing ability to make standards due to fatigue and inability to recover between shifts I am not sure if I can keep going.

And because I get home and don't have the energy to do jack shit I am way behind on all of my projects and fighting my depression and shit is getting harder and harder.

[deepfriedthrifting]

The last of what I spotted yesterday afternoon