#mycology illustration

[the-distantprince]

Here are some of the illustrations I’ve done so far (i should add perithecia)! I have Lichens of the North Woods by Joe Walewski. I wish I got a guide that covers New York better.

I have yeast on there as it’s an example of a symbiotic partner that’s not part of the standard pair or triad. It’s a Tremella yeast that is in a symbiotic relationship with and the yellow green lichen Lethara vulpina on the left (as I understand it)

Hi I’m planning out a lichen zine. I’m hoping to have an approachable but more in depth little booklet. Do you have any suggestions for what info I should include and what I can cut?

I’m torn on using specific names for things like reproductive structures and going into more of the subtypes of body structures.

This is a debate I (and many other lichenologists) have all the time within ourselves. They are so so many specific terms. And there are specific terms to describe those specific terms. And it never ends. So where to meet in the middle? A few terms I think are necessary to introduce:

Symbiosis

Mycobiont (Ascomycete) and Photobiont (green algae vs cyanobacteria)

Thallus, its layers (cortex, photobiont layer, medulla, rhizines), and the major growth forms (foliose, fruticose, crustose, squamulose)

Ascoma/fruiting bodies (apothecia and perithecia)

Asexual propagules (isidia, soredia, phyllidia)

Substrate (corticolous, saxicolous, terricolous)

I have a great little lichen field guide written by Dr. Erin Tripp, Field Guide to the Lichens of White Rocks (Boulder, Colorado), that I bought specifically because I think she does a masterful job of balancing accuracy and approachability. I recommend checking it out! Good luck! Sounds like a great project! Consider me an enthusiastic supporter.

[starryspectre]

It's fungi season!! Don't eat these, you'll die

[annfryart]

Foraging Finds

[thebotanicalarcade]

Beatrix Potter

Writer, illustrator, conservationist, natural scientist

For the inaugural Arcade Feature, I'm excited to tell you about Beatrix Potter. Most people (including me) know her best for her picture books-

-which have sold over 250 million copies since they were published in the early 1900s.

Fun fact: In 1903, Peter Rabbit was the first fictional character to be made into a patented stuffed toy, making him the oldest licensed character.

But what really caught my attention is the work she was doing before Peter Rabbit came along.

Beatrix Potter had a scientific eye for detail, and was able to faithfully depict the world around her. In particular, she was interested in mycology.

In 1897, she put forward a paper to the Linnean Society in London... but as a woman was not allowed to be a member of the society nor attend the meeting when her paper was read. When the society's members did not pay much attention to her work, and fearing her samples to be contaminated, Potter withdrew her paper, which became lost. Only after Potter left hundreds of mycological artworks to a museum in the Lake District, UK, on her death in 1943, were her scientific talents recognized... Potter's precise and beautiful paintings and drawings of fungi are now helping modern mycologists in their efforts to identify species.*

Potter eventually moved away from books in favor of land management and farming. She was a prize-winning sheep breeder and a prosperous farmer, and bought several farms surrounding her own to preserve the unique hill country landscape. Much of that land now constitutes the Lake District National Park.

Keep an eye out for more Beatrix Potter throughout the month of February.

* Fry, C., & Wayland, E. (2024). Introduction. In The Botanists’ Library, The Most Important Botanical Books in History (1st ed., pp. 9–10). introduction, Ivy Press.

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[daily-dragon-drawing]

mushroom dragon?

#105 - 魔菇 (mógū / magic shroom) - You may see her hanging out in a forest after a rainy day! 🍄🤎🪵

[hagofbolding]

In the fall in the Pacific Northwest, you might find this very tiny dragon jealously guarding its hoard of fungus in the old growth forests

My biggest risograph to date, 11 x 17"! The colors almost hurt to look at irl :') I love this medium

Prints available!

[bookiechu]

Fungis of Faerûn!! Painted with gouache. 🍄

[layaart]

fungi books 🍄

[amandaherzman]

fungi of the forest 🍄✨

[thefugitivesaint]

Val W. Starnes, ''Toadstools, Mushrooms, Fungi, Edible and Poisonous, One Thousand American Fungi'' by Charles McIlvaine & Robert K. Macadam, 1900 Source

[schadhauser]

🧚 ☆。*。☆。

[randommelan]

Lil’ mushroom witch going about her daily life. She’s either napping in the woods with her mossy camouflage cape or studying spells to better use magic.

These two drawings are used for the sticker sheet from my May Patreon design “Mycology.”

[heaveninawildflower]

Fly Amanita taken from 'Hortus Medicus' by John Davie Morries, George Graves. Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

Published 1834 by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green.

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[leafycollages]

strawberries

portfolio | insta

[dariaestudio]

[mooshroomteeth]

me if i was in a mycelium network