#i love mycology

[vikingpoteto]

Me core

[bi-hop]

me explaining character ideas to my gf

[lichenaday]

Lobaria anthraspis

Dimpled specklebelly

I have been saving this lichen for a special occasion because I am so incredibly in love with her that I haven't wanted to free her from my drafts folder. But today is the day. This gorgeous weirdo is a tripartite (has both a green algae AND a cyanobacteria as photobionts) foliose lichen which grows only in the cold, humid forests of western North America. It has leathery, reticulated lobes which vary in color from dark brown (melanized) to gray blue to olive green in color. It produces lots of apothecia which also vary in color from orange to red to brown to black. Like other Lobarias, L. anthraspis prefers old-growth, isolated forests far away from pollution and disturbance. So my current retirement plan is to wander into the forest and settle wherever I find her and live out the rest of my life in peace and joy (the rest of my life not being very long due to the harsh winters of the region, but at least I will go out happy in the presence of the one I love).

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[amandaherzman]

fairy ring fungi 💖🌟

This is the herbologist reward for April! If you'd like these postcards as well as three pages worth of fairy ring fungi folklore and facts, consider joining my patreon for this month - a handful of slots are free!

[strobilomyces-strobilaceus]

earth tongues (genus Geoglossum) plus a little waxcap

[titipounamu]

Heterotextus sp • haast pass, aotearoa

[raaaamen]

fungi!!!!

[mycoblogg]

I love the look of mushrooms and I was wondering your favourite ones based on looks

this is such a good ask !! i'll be limiting myself to three, otherwise we'll be here all day-

wrinkled peach (FOTD coming soon<3) // rhodotus.

pixie's parasol (FOTD coming in, like, two days !!) // mycena interrupta.

parrot waxcap (FOTD.. sometime..) // hygrocybe psittacina.

[unshrimp]

Mad respect for mushrooms. When faced with predation, they just went fuck you you're dead then. Some plants have managed this but not as much as the fungi.

Particular shout out to the fairly clearly named funeral bell managing to look exactly like a completely delicious fungi.

[ciaospiriti]

[toasttbutt]

I am convinced I've found the largest sulfur tuft cluster lol

These photos are from 2 days ago and we're about as wide as tea saucer

This is how big they are now, my foot (7 woman's lol) for size

THEY'RE HUGE????? Mushrooms are so so cool <333

[lichenaday]

how. do i become a lichenologist. its a need not a want i promise

Look for schools that have lichenologists

Go to that school

Approach said lichenologists at school and tell them you want to work for them. They will likely be very excited to hear this

Learn skills related to field work, lab work, systematics and taxonomy, and scientific reading/writing

Read papers on lichenology

Find the thing that gets you really excited in the field and talk to everyone about it. Become a passionate zealot for your thing. Follow your thing wherever to takes you, and be prepared for this thing to lead you to new things

Be an absolute annoyance to everyone until the let you be what you want to be because you deserve it if you are passionate enough to go for it

[theprinceofmycologia]

Mushrooms in the city!!!

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[myxomycota]

Tubifera ferruginosa by cho_fungi

[shroomsnail]

what is she doing!! ~~~~ why!!!

[titipounamu]

Coprinellus sp • aotearoa