#fungi special

[memoriesofthepark]

Pink cup lichen 》 Cladonia peziziformis

My first cladonia lichen! So gorgeous!!

Found growing on the stones of a fire pit.

Caddo Lake State Park, Texas, 3 Aug. 2024

[witchydykebitch]

Went thrifting. Saw a mushroom skirt. The autism took over. Now I own a mushroom skirt.

[titipounamu]

purple webcap / Cortinarius sp compilation from sunday • catlins river walk, aotearoa

[mycoblogg]

amanita phalloides // death cap <3

this is the first time i'm posting a picture of fungi that *i* took, so no need to cite my sources here B-) anyway, i found these at the start of winter with my brother. it was really freaking bizarre, since i've hardly found that many mushrooms in person, but i found literally the most poisonous mushroom we know of. you can imagine i was going insane (positive) !!

[sashimoii]

Doodle of my minutemen general Ophelia

Not finished anything in over a month life is busy af atm but here’s my babyyyyyy! (Also unfinished lol)

[galacticscrotum]

This post is your chance to info dump about fungi (please I need information from neurodivergent people who love fungiesss)

please

need enthusiastic info about fungi

how the fuck do mushrooms happen

[broccoli-chomper]

Most of my fungus people have been mages, but this guy is the most magic mushroom of them all. A fungus summoner. Mushroom mage? Mycomancer?

[whitegoldtower]

Sorry but I’m gonna smack u all with my ‘tism stick

Have my favourite spider, favourite crystals, favourite poisons and favourite mushrooms

African Black Velvet: eresidae gandanameno sp. “Pretoria” - I want to keep one as a pet, desperately. 10/10 perfect spider.

CHICKEN OF THE WOODS (laetiporus cincinnatus) - if I ever found one of these I would bash my head off a tree in excitement and glee

Fly Agaric (Amanita Muscaria) - I found a few of these while out walking with my uni group 2 years ago and accidentally held up the whole group with a TED Talk. Luckily they were all also mentally ill / autistic /nd art students so I didn’t bore anybody

Ghost Fungus!!!!! (Omphalotus Nidiformis) - if I had the money I would 100000% fly to australia and venture out into the blue mountains at night just to see these beauties bioluminesce.

Vivianite: anyone who brings up crystals around me has probably heard me go “DO YOU KNOW VIVIANITE GROWS OUT OF CORPSES” at some point. It’s a ferrous iron phosphate mineral that grows in a monoclinic crystal system and thrives in anaerobic boggy environments. It forms when the hydroxyapatite in your bones (major source of phosphate) reacts with water from a waterlogged tomb and the iron in any surrounding rocks, resulting in cool shit like blue skeletons and crystals growing out yer teef

Grape Agate: it’s not agate. It’s not chalcedony. It’s not amethyst. It’s a variety of quartz silica which are commonly termed as ‘amethystine’, and instead of taking on the macrocrystalline monoclinic formations typical of normal quartz, it’s made up of up micro crystals that grow radially in a botryoidal form. Also comes in green and white. It’s only found in the Manakarra Beach in Indonesia.

Strychnine: (Strychnos Loganiaceae, Nux Vomica) - the one that leaves you with a hideous grin. It causes violent muscle contractions, enough to make the body bend back to an unnatural degree before the victim finally dies of asphyxiation. Particularly horrid as the victim remains conscious throughout the ordeal and is very much aware of what is happening. In fact, the victim is hyperaware. Nasty stuff. It inhibits your postsynaptic glycine receptors in your spinal cord, which causes the intensely painful and involuntary contortions. Also it’s mentioned in the Herbal of Rufinus as ‘good for helping to balance the phlegmatic and choleric humours’ through purging (vomiting, hence why it’s called the ‘vomiting nut’), and was a medicine to be used with great caution.

Giant Hogweed (Heracleum Apiaceae, Mantegazzianum): all parts of this plant are toxic. man fuck this stuff, if you touch it you’re literally gonna be burning and blistering every time the sun touches your skin for months and possibly even years after coming into contact with this hellspawn plant. Its active constituents are furanocoumarins, which basically mutate your skin cells to become incredibly sensitive to light. It’s a mutagenic and possibly carcinogenic photoactive compound.

Mandrake (Mandragora Officinarum): it’s in the nightshade family (Solanaceae)! Revered in folklore for the way its roots look like a person, said to ‘scream and cause death’ upon being uprooted. It’s a powerful narcotic, hallucinogenic and emetic plant, meaning that you try and eat this shit and you’ll be absolutely off your tits and vomming your guts up before you kick it.

Other honourable mentions that make for interesting reading:

Orpiment, Gasteracantha Cancriformis, Gasteracantha Arcuata, Sugar Fluorite, Jelly Lichens, Monkshood (Aconitum), Bleeding Tooth Fungus, Amorphophallus Titanium

Stupid fact about me: I have, in fact, ingested wormwood (Artemisia Absinthium) to see what sort of effect it would have out of curiosity, but didn’t get very far as it tasted fucking awful (I made a tea). Tastes like nail polish remover, 0/10 do not recommend. Didn’t ingest enough to feel any sort of thujone effect and my little experiment was safely conducted. I did, however, burn some to see if that would do anything and it made me feel rank in the tummy. No hallucinogenic effect. Again. 0/10 do not recommend.

[memoriesofthepark]

Two different species of Lentinus found in the park this morning.

Spring polypore 》 Lentinus arcularius (images 1-5)

Fringed sawgill 》 Lentinus crinitus (images 6-10)

This was my first encounter with a pored Lentinus, very exciting!

Southeast Texas, 1 Sep. 2024

[noseysilverfox]

May 2021

[mycoblogg]

FOTD #034 : amethyst deceiver! (laccaria amethystina)

the amethyst deceiver is a mycorrhizal fungus in the family hydnangiaceae. it is found in most temperate areas across europe, asia & central + south + (eastern) north america.

the big question : can i bite it?? yeah !! this fungus is edible, though not necessarily choice.

l. amethystina description :

"the cap is 1–6 cm in diameter, & is initially convex, later flattening, & often with a central depression (navel). when moist it is a deep purplish lilac, which fades upon drying out. it is sometimes slightly scurfy at the center, & has pale striations at the margin. the stem is the same colour as the cap, & has whitish fibrils at the base, which become mealy at the top. it is fibrous, hollow, fairly tough when rolled in the fingers, with dimensions of 0.6 to 7 centimetres (0.24 to 2.76 in) long by 0.1 to 0.7 centimetres (0.039 to 0.276 in) thick. the flesh is without a distinctive taste or smell, & is thin, with pale lilac coloration. the gills are colored as the cap, often quite distantly spaced, & are dusted by the white spores; their attachment to the stem is sinuate—having a concave indentation before attaching to the stem."

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

[matthewmoorwood]

Currently compiling all of my personal headcanons for Vulcans in campfire so I can try to keep my fic stuff consistent and hrrgasdg I loveeeeee worldbuilding. Is any of this #realscience? nope. Is it still cool as fuck? Yep.

I'm not saying that biology is a special interest of mine, but I am saying that I did in fact make a flowchart of how I think Vulcans evolved into being humaoids from ocean bugs. Spoiler its by using desert cats as the mammal instead of apes. totally not because Vulcans are catboys or anything

I've even made separate evolutionary adaptations depending on what part of the supercontinent the Vulcans are from, like there are polar ice caps and so I've made flora and fauna that are kind of consistent with earth arctic stuff but also different and weird to accommodate for the desert conditions. (Yes ice is still classed as desert)

idk in my head Vulcans had a muchhh longer time period of being upright brain kinda work beings than we did because the climate was so harsh that evolution couldn't be as rapid + the whole fighting each other to death bit

Also those motherfuckers have tattoos and piercings and other illogical body mods, you're telling me that those pre-surak bitches wrote the most kick ass poetry and wouldn't?? ink themselves up with it?? yeah sure bud. Also sooo much socitial emphasis on jewelery and having either tattoo designs and stuff passed down through generations like taonga.

The level of drip Vulcans have is already illogical, idk I just think that most Vulcans who go offworld are taught to censor their cultural aspects in order to be less 'offensive' (appeal to space racists) but that the majority of regular ass Vuclans continue to practice their culture as their Surak given right.

Bc Uhura is my bbg and she's in all my tos fic (duh) I've also made some preliminarily language stuff (no dictionaries or anything) on potential communication things for the different regions depending on their available resources. e.g sign languages that require touching another person for dust storms/ blizzards.

'Cause of my physically disabled ass is in control here I've also been looking at how a semi-utopia view of accessible architecture could work while also tryna balance out the whole logical eugenics thing, too many cool sci-fi settings have like massive stairs and I'm like. :/ rlly.

When I do my ds9 fic stuff once the tos brainrot has abated I'll probably do a similar thing for Cardassians and Ferengi and Trill and all the other cool little critters.

I just think that Star Trek does WAYYYY to little with the ideas of alien cultures and ends up summeriasing entire planets and believing the same things and generalyl being copies of each other when there is so much diversity? across biomes? let alone galaxies. Semi-related it's like how obvs tos are my blorbos but I really want a new series which is just like "oh yeah this is Mr Brep and she kisses ladies and is also a spy for the Heebie Jeebie goverment and keeps getting into hijinks with her friends who she holds hands with all the time."

most of the time I wish I was normal and liked by my peers but other times, having autism kinda slaps.

[thehousepatron]

If you’re coming over here from my main blog @whitegoldtower (I am deeply sorry) you probably don’t need to read all this. For those of you, however, who have chosen death…

Hi.

I’m Afallach, this is me and my silly little (s)elf insert, Zilvantar.

🕷️As House Patron, I have a few rules.🕷️

Under 18’s, please do not interact with me. I’m an adult and I’m not comfortable discussing adult things with kids. It’s weird.

Don’t be poisoning the air over here with any sort of -phobia. Particularly transphobia. I am a proud, intersex transgender man and I do not take kindly to being trifled with.

If you have arachnophobia, look away now. This is a drow-themed special interest blog: there will be spiders. And I do not wish to give anybody nightmares… unless their name is Marcus.

Fuck you, Marcus.

Everything I write about on here is purely either for fun or educational. I will be writing about some nasty things like poisons and what they do to a human body. This is not your incentive to attempt a DIY. Likewise, if you find a mushroom in the wild, DO NOT eat it unless you’re 1000% certain you know what it is.

If you’re not comfortable with topics such as BDSM and Monsterfucking, this is likely not the blog for you: the majority of the time, my brain is drowning his sorrows in Menzoberranzan’s filthiest gutters.

🕸️Made it this far? Great!🕸️

🕷️This my house. Entry, please. 🕷️

I have a lot of special interests. This blog is for this portion of them:

#mushrooms lichen and fungi

#Drow Lore

#Poisons

#Spiders (and some other arachnids)

#Crystals

#BG3 Stuff that fits the vibe

#Alchemy and Medieval Medicine

🕷️🕸️🕷️

If you’ve read all the way to the bottom of this post, thanks. Here, take this. It’s dangerous to go alone. 💜

My Drow Tavs/Durges:

Malhounnet Do’Urden: Circle of Spores Druid/Bard, Noble, MTF Transfem

Tam’lin Baenre: Szarkai Gloomstalker Ranger, Noble/Folk Hero, Minthara’s Cousin, Descendant of Gromph Baenre

Vesz: Bhaalspawn Barbarian/Monk (War-Priest of Lolth), Haunted One, Resist Durge, Intersex FTM

Zilvantar Arkentyl: Wizard/Sorcerer (Arachnomancer), Noble/Sage, favourite of Alak’niss Rilynath (my DnD OC, Archmage of Sorcere, who is also an Arachnomancer and dethroned/usurped Pharaun Mizzrym)

Yazdaer Mizzrym: Rogue/Hexblade Warlock (Zhentarim), Noble/Charlatan, Descendant of Greyanna Mizzrym and Pharaun Mizzrym.

Nathurra Agelenidae: Blood Sorcerer, Embrace (?) Durge - still working on her. Haunted One, my almost murder hobo (her name is literally based on the Hobo Spider). Minthara’s lover. Is going to scalp Orin’s braid off her head when she gets her hands on her. Sister rivalry but make it 🎀worse🎀

My D&D OC:

Alak’niss Rilynath: FTM noble, Sorcerer/Wizard Arachnomancer and Arch-Mage of Sorcere. Had a dalliance with Gromph Baenre, and assassinated the arch-mage who succeeded him (Pharaun Mizzrym) to assume the title of Archmage at Sorcere, having an advantage in doing so for his female anatomy. Fearfully referred to as the ‘Spider King’, as rumours say he is a ‘Consort of Lolth’, having been ‘kissed by the Spider Queen,’ as the only House Patron to be given the advantage of being blessed with a female form at birth, part of his body also naturally armoured with a spider-like carapace, which spread with his use of magic. He is also feared for his jet black hair, which, in Drow Society, is said to be a bad omen - and a bad omen he was, indeed, for the Rilynath House, as when they sought to eliminate him for the ‘treachery’ of his transition, he picked them off one by one until only he was left.

“My bloodline ends with me.”

Lawful Evil/True Neutral.

Read Alak’niss’ Fic Here!

[mycological-mariner]

I really should go back to the short story about the fishwives and bal maidens tbh

[galehowl]

Somehow one of the mildly annoying things I still think about now and then in encountering a "new" mushroom species in our forests last year, Aureoboletus projectellus, or how it's locally dubbed the "golden bolete", which is an invader from north Murica lmao. It started appearing here about a decade ago and slowly taking over Europe's forests, and there's so much of it here now

[the-headless-owl]

Steinpilz // Boletus edulis