#cibarium

[zeejeythedoodler]

Updated Atom's wings into something a little more anatomically accurate.

Also been thinking a lot lately about what these characters look like under their clothes, so yeah. Shirtless Atom for your viewing... Pleasure? Do any of my followers even find them attractive? Is there a market for this?

[zeejeythedoodler]

I love this so much! Thank you 💕💕

bweirdOCtober 25: COMMUNITY

A return present to @zeejeythedoodler !

I love how silly Ara looks when she falls in love haha.

[mycoblogg]

Can you do a stinkhorn for FOTD? - 🩰

FOTD #010 : white basket! (ileodictyon cibarium)

the white basket fungus is a stinkhorn from the family phallaceae. it is native to australia & new zealand, & is known among the māori people by over 35 different names !! it grows alone or clustered together near woody debris, in lawns, gardens, & cultivated soil, along roads, in forest.

the big question : can i bite it?? eating this fungus is not recommended, due to its foul stench (often compared to rotting flesh).

i. cibrarium description :

"prior to the opening of the outer skin, the fruit body is egg-shaped & white to greyish. After opening, it is a whitish mesh-like ball measuring up to 25 cm in diameter."

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

"thank you anon !! i hope you like her :-) this is one of my favourite stinkhorns."

[agaricomycete]

Ileodictyon cibarium

[sonohban]

Oh this is something I'm awfully excited to ask you but I keep on forgetting!! But anyway, if you'll create an alien race based on bugs in dragon ball how would you go about it? Like what would be the most important detail do you think they should have? (I want to ask you about specifics of that race too but I don't want to pressure you on answering since I'm sure that would be long. Just an idea of what an alien bug race can be would be awesome!)

THIS IS SUCH A GREAT QUESTION..... because it makes me think so hard i can't think of anything conclusively :') first up is- would this insect race be one species? one family? one order? or just a mix of all different kinds? there's literally around a million insect species and almost 30 orders that are INCREDIBLY diverse in form. i don't want to paste every single example here but here's just the silhouettes to give you an idea!!

(deep longing sigh, a graphic from one of my favorite papers by misof et al. 2014)

but also i could just. make up a new bug entirely?? 😳 like just smash together my favorite characteristics from across the insect world... what sounds good to me atm is cool wings (i like plain membranous more than the scaly wings of butterflies/moths, you can get cool patterns with them too), the general horse shape of a mantis/snakefly and sound producing organs (insects make noises in different ways! crickets stridulate by rubbing their wings together, cicadas expand/contract their tymbals, hissing roaches compress air through their spiracles). i like the idea of insects singing to communicate, it's pretty much only to attract mates or scare predators but i think it's a generally romantic idea :'3 i also think it's cool to consider aspects of physiology, like insects have an open circulatory system (their organs are bathed in hemolymph instead of supplied by vessels), they have a more decentralized nervous system (can still get around despite lots of their body missing), they can overwinter, among other things. oh i think i'd also like them to be holometabolous (larva>pupa>adult rather than a nymph that gradually sheds into its adult form) because i want to see proud parents holding their cute little worm babies :3c

in terms of dragon ball i can say what i won't do- toriyama i'm making a callout post on tumblr dot com- there are insects other than cicadas (although i LOVE cicadas) but i am tired of these things

it is a real structure found among the true bugs (order hemiptera, includes aphids, leafhoppers, cicadas, etc.) called a cibarium which basically houses the big muscles the herbivorous members use to suck up plant juices. SUCK, you say?? yeah these things don't have chewing mouthparts so shut your weird beak mouth, cell. you're supposed to be sucking up people with that instead. their mouths have been modified into straw things called a rostrum which you can barely see under the cibarium of that cicada. if i had to make an alien race based off these kinds of bugs, their mouths would remain rostra and i'd definitely have them communicate through sound production only. that would be hella cool.

(also while we're on the cell callout train, cell's wings are based off the shell of a beetle which are technically called elytra but THERE'S ALSO SUPPOSED TO BE MEMBRANOUS NORMAL WINGS UNDERNEATH! insects typically have two pairs of wings and the shell of a beetle is just the hardened first pair.)

hehe sorry that went on for a bit. take some bonus doodles that this inspired although i wouldn't consider these examples of a sentient alien race. i really like snakeflies and think they're adorable OTL

[croakego]

Hello if my followers see this can you pretty please tell me what your fave fungi are, mine are Serpula lacrymans (dry rot) and Ileodictyon cibarium (basket fungus) please please pleaaase tell me i love mycelia

[revretch]

It's a hell of a thing to find sources right now, so you're going to have to take my word for it that this is a cross-section of a cicada head, and that it also works this way for adults. You can see the cibarium (the inside of the mouth, or more properly a cavity in front of it) has this big chunk of muscle above it that works as a pump to draw fluid up through the beak, which is formed by the usual insect mouthparts!

OP made this post unrebloggable but me and my bf made this meme in a fit of obsession and it had to be shared

[life-around-me-yura15cbx]

Ileodictyon cibarium is a saprotrophic species of fungus in the family Phallaceae. It is native to Australia and New Zealand, where it is commonly known as the basket fungus or the white basket fungus, alluding to its fruit bodies, shaped like a round or oval ball with interlaced or latticed branches, resembling polyhedra similar to closed fullerenes.

Илеодиктион съедобный (Клатрус белый), Семейство: Phallaceae (Весёлко��ые). сперва из земли появляются крупные, до 7 см, слизистые «яйца», одетые в белую сетку из крупных ячеек, которая со временем раскрывается, как детская игрушка, образуя полый «мяч». Запах у гриба отвратительно-гнилостный. Многие весёлки съедобны в стадии «яйца», и даже обладают лечебными свойствами, а неприятным запахом они обзаводятся только во взрослом состоянии, для привлечения мух. Так и корзиночник белый: вполне съедобен в стадии «яйца».

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[zeejeythedoodler]

Here's a closer look at Atom from that group pic because I am very happy with how they came out =:3

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Hericium coralloides

Weird and Wonderful Fungi Pictures

Photographer: Bernard Spragg

Earthstars Geastrum

Clavulina rugosa (coral fungi)

Ileodictyon cibarium (basket fungi)

[thiswillnotdo]

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[wyldefungi]

Ileodictyon cibarium

Basket Fungus, NZ

[formlab]

Ileodictyon cibarium

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[lycomorpha]

Ileodictyon cibarium. (basket fungi) by Bernard Spragg. NZ Via Flickr: Ileodictyon cibarium is a saprobic species of fungus in the family Phallaceae. It is endemic to New Zealand, where it commonly known as the basket fungus or the white basket fungus, alluding to the fruit bodies that are shaped somewhat like a round or oval ball with interlaced or latticed branches. While the immature volvae are edible, the mature fruit body is foul-smelling and covered with a slime layer containing spores on the inner surfaces.

[zeejeythedoodler]

This took me longer than I'd care to admit. Comics are hard y'all!

Notes:

buildings in Cibarium are made from a living fungal material that can repair itself.

Instead of imperial or metric, the country of Labrum (in which lies Cibarium) uses the tak system, which consists of three main units of measurement: tiks (0.6 cm), toks (3.6 cm), and taks (21.6 cm). (You're on your own for imperial conversions. Fractions make my brain hurt).

I didn't have the time or energy to make a transcript for this one unfortunately. If anyone wants to add one I'd be happy to reblog it!

[monanaism]

🔥shroom

As I am not into the shroom fandom, I do not know if it’s unpopular or not but the Clathrus Ruber is cooler and looks better than the ileodictyon cibarium.