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I also made this with Greek yoghurt today and the naan was even better ! I did forget to take pictures again :( Maybe, next time . . .

Garlic Naan

Note: I just improvised the recipe, it turned out pretty good. Normally, I would use Greek yoghurt, but I only had coconut yoghurt and that worked out too. I also forgot to take a picture of the naans, but I did not plan this post and I normally do not take pictures of my food.

Ingredients:

200 ml coconut yoghurt or Greek yoghurt

1 tbsp (olive oil)

270 gr self-rising flour + extra to dust the dough

Pinch of salt

Some parsley

1 - 3 cloves of garlic, however much you like

A little bit of cumin and laos.

Recipe:

Sift the self-rising flour and add it together with the yoghurt and oil in a bowl. Mince or press the garlic and add it to the bowl. Mince the parsley and add it to the bowl.

Add some extra spices like cumin and laos.

Knead it together into a dough. Divide the dough into four pieces. Flatten each of the four pieces of dough with your hands and dust each piece.

Put a frying-pan on the hob and bake each piece of naan without oil until the dough is not soft anymore and remember to flip the naans every once in a while. If the naans get to thick for your liking just flatten the pueces in the pan with your hand or a spatula.

Enjoy:)

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@jayroyism another recipe again :)

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2 insects and 1 invertebrate I found about this year

Note : "Goodbye, 2024. Hello, 2025." Where I am, it is just a few hours away from New Year's; in celebration, I wanted to make my last post of 2024. Happy New Year everyone !

Giant Shield Bug a.k.a. Asiarcha angulosa (Family : Tessaratomidae)

Picasso Bug a.k.a. Sphaerocoris annulus (Family : Scutelleridae)

Bipalium choristosperma (Family : Geoplanidae)

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That definitely helps! Thank you! I am thinking it might be Peziza vesiculosa a.k.a. blistered cup :)

its november so the only mushrooms i can find around here are the Blobs

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Hiyaa!

So I am not sure about the jelly fungus, but I think the cup fungus might be Tarzetta catinus or some kind of Peziza species. However, I am not 100% sure because I do not know the country or continent of the finds. I hope this helps :)

its november so the only mushrooms i can find around here are the Blobs

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Hiyaa!

I have decided to change my username from @theprinceofmycologia to @thelordofologies.

I have chosen to do this for multiple reasons, partly because I really do not post just about mycology anymore, but about way more. I also do not want to make any side blogs, so I thought a change of username might be a good idea.

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Nepenthes pudica

Note : Here it is . . . the Nepenthes pudica post. I think the poll was posted at least two months ago, but here it is, finally . . .

Description

Shoots

N. pudica is a terrestrial climber producing climbing shoots and underground basal shoots.  The climbing shoots grow up to about 20 metres long, the stem is glabrous and about 4 tot 6 millimetres thick with internodes that are circa 4 centimetres long. The underground basal shoots are short with reduced, partially or completely achlorophyllous* leaves bearing well-developed lower pitchers, not observed to branch or develop roots. 

Leaves

The rosette leaves are chartaceous, subsessile to shortly petiolate and have an oblanceolate shape. They are up to 16 centimetres long and up to 4 centimetres wide, apex subobtuse or acute to acuminate, base auriculate, shortly decurrent, glabrous on both sides but densely hairy with short brown hairs on the margins, have tendrils up to 16 centimetres long, and are uncoiled.  The leaves of the climbing shoots are coriaceous, shortly petiolate, oblanceolate, up to 20 centimetres long, up to 4.5 centimetres wide, with 2 to 4 inconspicuous longitudinal veins on each side of the midrib, apex acute, base auriculate, shortly decurrent, glabrous on both sides, margins glabrous, and are coiling. 

Pitchers

The rosette pitchers are produced only briefly on aboveground rosettes, up to 9 centimetres high and up to 3 centimetres wide, thin-chartaceous and subcylindrical to ovoid in the lower part.  The lower pitchers are produced exclusively on underground basal shoots, 7 to 11 centimetres high and 3 to 5.5 centiemtres wide, thin-coriaceous, becoming thicker-walled and markedly sturdier when produced at depth, arising abruptly from the uncoiled tendril, ventricose, broadly ovoid to globose in the lower half, infundibular above, clearly widening towards the mouth; eglandular zone of the inner surfaces extending from the mouth almost to the middle of the pitcher; the inner surface near the mouth is white, conspicuously red blotched, the outer surface is red-purple, faintly blotched, occasionally entirely off-white when produced at depth; two fringed wings running from the bottom of the pitcher to the mouth at the front; mouth round, rising at the rear into a short neck; peristome cylindrical in section, up to 2 millimetres wide, inner surface with distinct teeth up to 0.8 millimetres long, ribs up to 0.5 millimetres apart, up to 0.2 millimtres wide; lid broadly ovate, circa 20 to 30 millimetres long, circa 20 millimetres wide, with short spur; large, craterlike nectar glands, up to 0.35 millimetres long, scattered densely in the middle of the lower surface.  The upper pitchers are rarely produced, up to 9 centimetres high, up to 2 centimetres wide, thin-coriaceous, arising gradually from the tendril, narrowly infundibular at the base, subcylindrical above; eglandular zone of the inner surfaces covering upper 1/3 of the pitcher; outer surface green, inner surface near the mouth yellowish; two fringed wings running from the middle of the pitcher to the mouth at the front; mouth round, with or without very short neck; peristome cylindrical, up to 1.5 millimetres wide, inner surface with very short teeth, ribs up to 0.25 millimetres apart, circa 0.1 millimetres wide; lid broadly ovate, 11 to 16 millimetres long, 9 to 13 millimetres wide, with curved spur; craterlike nectar glands as in lower pitchers, up to 0.3 millimetres long. 

Fruit and seeds

The fruit is a fusiform capsule, has a reddish brown colour at maturity, is conspicuously glossy, and the valves of the fruits are about 45 by 4 millimeteres.  The seeds are 20 to 25 millimetres long.

Habitat and ecology

The species occurs on ridgetops over sandstone rocks in the lower montane rainforest. The known elevational range is 1100 to 1300 meters above sea level. The plants frequently grow near trees whose branched roots form cavities covered with a moss layer. Lower pitchers are then copiously produced inside these cavities. If no cavities are available, the pitchers are produced directly in soil, deep litter or under moss cushions.

The subterranean growth habit of Nepenthes pudica was consistently observed across five studied sites but was not shared by the sympatric Nepenthes species, showing that it was not simply the result of unusual local conditions. The underground shoots of N. pudica had no obstacles preventing them from growing upwards, suggesting that they are not negatively gravitropic as is typical of stems. Neither did they show signs of growing towards light, even when concealed only under a soft moss cushion or already slightly chlorophyllous. Based on this and their generally lateral character, it might be supposed that they are negatively phototropic rather than positively gravitropic.

Distribution

The species is known only from a few adjoining localities in the western part of the Mentarang Hulu; a district of North Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Prey composition and infauna

1785 invertebrate individuals belonging to 40 different taxa were found in suspensions sampled from five underground pitchers and one aerial rosette pitcher. Necromass of the prey consisted of sclerites of highly digested invertebrates. It contained mainly litter- and soil-inhabiting species as well as a large amount of plant detritus. Among soil- and litter-inhabiting species such as, mites, leaf litter–inhabiting beetles and a single ant of the genus Anochetus were observed. These taxa are mostly mycophagous, detritophagous, or predators. However, the main and the essential prey component was a species of ant from the subfamily Myrmicinae, probably a species of the genus Crematogaster, which is closely associated with Nepenthes. A number of individuals of an ant from the genus Polyrhachis were found in the aboveground rosette pitcher in contrast with their rare occurrence in underground traps.

A relatively numerous infauna, especially larvae of mosquitoes, nematodes and annelids were found in both aboveground and underground pitchers. One of the most interesting inquilines found in the underground pitchers was a new species of annelid worm, Pristina armata.

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Achlorophyllous* - plants that are achlorophyllous are fully mycoheterotrophic with no chlorophyll, they obtain their nutrients from soil fungi.

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Mutuals

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I have many mycology resources to share ;) interested? 🍄🧬🧫🌈🙏🏼🍄🔬if so, lemme know what you want to know more about or what your current understandings are and I can tailor some selections for your studying pleasure :)

-MCX

Hiyaa MCX!

Thank you so much for the offer! Right now, I am not looking for any resources, thank you though.

My understanding of mycology is pretty good/intermediate. However, I am less knowledgable on microbiology applied to mycology, partly because I do not study microbiology a lot and partly because English is not my first language. It does interest me though.

If I am looking for more resources, i will definitely contact you :) Thank you so much!

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Last Song: Bela Lugosi's Dead (Official Version) - Bauhaus

Favourite Colour: blue, green and yellow (the planet earth and the heavens, I love nature ♡)

Last Book: Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

Last Movie: Nosferatu (1922)

Last Show: Law and Order: Special Victims Unit

Sweet/Spicy/Savory: depends on my mood to be honest, changes like every two days

Relationship Status: happily living together with my cat, in other words I'm single lol

Last thing I googled: Fossils found in the Green River Formation in Wyoming

Current Obsessions: paleontology, marine biology, mycology, EPIC: the musical, Spiderman, Marvel, DCU, DND, history.

Looking forward to: more research!! I love researching:)

Tagging: @squidsandthings @lameotello @pissass11 @poishroom @strobilomyces-confusus @pinkished @dinonuggiesaurus @writingraccoon @jayroyism + anyone else who wants to join:)

ten people i'd like to get to know better

Tagged by: @cedarxwing and @blushingunderwar, thanks babes <3

Last song: Big Man Baby Girl (back in to me) by Tawnted (i'm currently listening to my hannigram Brain Rot playlist LOL)

Favorite color: do i have to pick one? if yes, sage green. if no, the entire color palate found in red rock country (in/around Moab, Utah, USA)

Last book: all about love: new visions by bell hooks

Last movie: the new Beetlejuice movie! 10/10, very enjoyable

Last show: currently watching Mary & George, but the last show that i finished all the way through was Agatha All Along!

Sweet/spicy/savory: spicyyyyyyyyy (i will not let my midwestern white bread upraising dictate my tastebuds, damn it)

Relationship status: married

Last thing I googled: sumproduct function excel (troubleshooting my weighted average formula in my reading spreadsheet to weight my fic ratings by word count. tl;dr, i tend to rate longer fics higher)

Current obsession: my fic tracking spreadsheet and creating my own personal ao3 wrapped for this year! been talking @serri-i's ear off for the past two weeks about this, and i have no intention of stopping <3

Looking forward to: my partner is out of town this weekend so i'm taking myself on a date out to dinner and to see Gladiator 2 (the original Gladiator was one of like 5 movies i had on DVD, King Arthur (2004) being another one lmao)

in the most low pressure way possible, tagging @serri-i, @gabalicious-g, @greenfinchwriter, @will-grahams-tshot, @incidentsofunknownorigins, @absurdthirst, @thewritingramblingsofstacey, @hannibals-grahamcracker, @ozymandian-circus, @serdaigledanslame

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Here are some of mine :)

A lot of my trinkets I have found on walks, with the exception of the the three non-six-sided (that's not a word, I think lol) dye and crystals.

Tagging: @squidsandthings @lameotello @pissass11 @poishroom @strobilomyces-confusus @pinkished @dinonuggiesaurus @writingraccoon + anyone else who wants to join:)

you. yes you. reblog with ur fav trinkets u own rn. :3

here are some of mine !!!

tags below

tags:

@theprinceofmycologia

@redrobinsrobbingrobin

@livelaughloverammstein

@versatilehorizon234

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Merry christmas/holidays/days everyone ! ! !

I know it is not New Year's yet, but I want to thank everyone visisting and reading my blog this year anyway! I really love informing you guys/gals/others about mycology and other ologies via my posts, and I hope you have enjoyed it too!

So far I have celebrated by making a gingerbread house and finishing a blanket I have have been crocheting. I will also celebrate with family :)

I am working on my Nepenthes pudica post, it might take a while because of the holidays, but I am working on it.

Eitherway, whoever you are, whoever reads this, I wish you the very best ! :)

Mutuals:

@squidsandthings @fungus-gnats @fairy-tales-of-yesterday @flamingears @lameotello @lovelyalicorn @edukincon @emmakapla @writingraccoon @jayroyism @pinkished @dinonugasaurus

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Garlic Naan

Note: I just improvised the recipe, it turned out pretty good. Normally, I would use Greek yoghurt, but I only had coconut yoghurt and that worked out too. I also forgot to take a picture of the naans, but I did not plan this post and I normally do not take pictures of my food.

Ingredients:

200 ml coconut yoghurt or Greek yoghurt

1 tbsp (olive oil)

270 gr self-rising flour + extra to dust the dough

Pinch of salt

Some parsley

1 - 3 cloves of garlic, however much you like

A little bit of cumin and laos.

Recipe:

Sift the self-rising flour and add it together with the yoghurt and oil in a bowl. Mince or press the garlic and add it to the bowl. Mince the parsley and add it to the bowl.

Add some extra spices like cumin and laos.

Knead it together into a dough. Divide the dough into four pieces. Flatten each of the four pieces of dough with your hands and dust each piece.

Put a frying-pan on the hob and bake each piece of naan without oil until the dough is not soft anymore and remember to flip the naans every once in a while. If the naans get to thick for your liking just flatten the pueces in the pan with your hand or a spatula.

Enjoy:)

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@jayroyism another recipe again :)

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Fossil Shark Teeth ID Project - Update

I am currently working on a shark teeth ID project. It is a personal project I am working on because I got gifted a multitude of fossil shark teeth of various species.

I have not made a post on this project in forever, so I felt it was time to post an update.

I have been working on a database with information on the fossil shark teeth.

I have 66 teeth in total, I made a picture of each and assigned each picture an ID number #. I sorted the teeth into envelopes, each containing 15 teeth. I did this so I could easier differentiate the teeth, when wanting to remeasure them or for other reasons.

For each tooth I noted the prescence of the root, the root type, the prescence of cusplets, the different measurements, the species and the scientific name of these species.

I have not been able to adequately fill in the information for each tooth, but I am working on it,

I might post "Fossil Shark Teeth ID Project - Part 3" later, specifically on some of the teeth I have been able to ID as Cosmopolitodus hastalis.

Note: The data in the database in the picture might change later on, this is just a snapshot, nothing permanent. If anyone is interested in an (possibly) updated snapshot of the database, just do an ask on my profile or send me a Direct Message.

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Picture from my evening walk . . .

Later when it got darker, the sky cleared up more and the stars were so bright . . . it was so gorgeous! It was also very cold lol

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Additional information : Bioactive compounds

Note: I would like to mention that this not medical advice of any sort. This is additional information to a previous post I made that some might find interesting.

"Some Tremella species produce polysaccharides * that are of interest to the medical field, because of their biological activity; several patents have been filed in China pertaining to the use of these compounds for cancer prevention or immune system enhancement. In 1966, Slodki reported discovering an acidic polysaccharide from haploid cells ** of T. mesenterica that closely resembled those produced by the species Cryptoccus laurentii. The structural similarity of the polysaccharides from the two species suggested a phylogenetic relationship between them. Subsequently, researchers  chemically synthesized the polysaccharide, and determined the chemical identities of the component sungar units. The polysaccharide, known as glucuronoxylomannan—produced by fruit bodies and in pure culture conditions—has been shown to consist of a mannan backbone that is glycosylated with xylan chains in a regular repeating structure. Laboratory tests have associated a number of biological activities with T. mesenterica glucuronoxylomannan, including immunostimulatory, antidiabetic, anti-inflammatory, hypocholesterolemic, hepatoprotective, and antiallergic effects." ¹

* Polysaccharides a.k.a. polycarbohydrates, are the most abundant carbohydrates found in food.

** Hapoloid cells are cells that contain a single set of chromosomes.

In short, some Tremella species produce (poly)carbohdyrates that are of interest to the medical field. The results of a multidude of tests have associated a number of biological activities with T. mesenterica glucuronoxylomannan. These associated activities include immunostimulatory, anti-diabetic, anti-inflammatory, hypocholesterolemic, hepatoprotective, and antiallergic effects.

Multiple sources, some more reliable than others, have been used to write this part of the Wikipedia article. I cannot guarantee the reliability of these sources, so I would like to repeat that this is not medical advice. However, the uncertainity of the reliability of these sources might prompt me, or others, to do more research. Therefore, I will link a few articles regarding this topic in this post.

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https://www.dl.begellhouse.com/journals/708ae68d64b17c52,7a31e55f2119a143,68c568f834abaf77.html

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https://www.dl.begellhouse.com/journals/708ae68d64b17c52,0351bdaa3d2241c0,591737aa0d80c9d9.html

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Witches' butter - Tremella mesenterica

Another post for the spooky season . . . this fungus thanks their name to stories from Swedish and Scandinavian folklore in which witches named "troll cats" spewed up bile referred to as "butter of the witches" or witches' butter.¹

Fruitbody

The fruitbody is a mass of lobes or brainlike sections that extend to 2 to 5 centimetres across and 1 to 3 centimetres high. Its surface is bald, moist and has a yellow to orangish colour. The flesh is gelatinous and yellow in colour, sometimes becoming amorphous with poor age or in wet conditions, drying to an orangish yellow crust.² In dry weather conditions it shrivels to a tiny fraction of its former size.³

Microscopic features

The spores (seen on the left below) are 10–15 x 6–12 µm, ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline in KOH, often budding to germinate by repetition, and then sometimes enlarging and/or becoming irregularly shaped.²

The basidia (seen on the right below) are 21–22 x 12–18 µm, ellipsoid, mostly 4-sterigmate, with long, fingerlike sterigmata (up to about 40 µm long), longitudinally septate.²

The conidia (asexual spores) are often present, variously sized but usually smaller than spores. They are ellipsoid  to subfusiform, smooth and hyaline in KOH.²

Ecology

Witches' butter is parasitic rather than saprobic³ on the mycelium of��Peniophora (a genus of crust fungi), growing alone or in amorphous clusters on the decaying sticks and logs of oaks and other broad-leaf hardwoods. It usually appears in the spring, in temperate areas, but also appears in summer, fall, and winter.²

Distribution

This species has a cosmopolitan distribution, meaning that it can be found in nearly every or all continents. Witches' butter can be found in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. It can be found in every continent but Antarctica.¹

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@edukincon

@emmakapla

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Thank you for tagging me ! ♡

A lot has changed, but that is okay, life is dynamic .

Tagging: @squidsandthings @lameotello @edukincon @belis86 @pissass11 @emmakapla @poishroom @strobilomyces-confusus @jasontoddlovr @pinkished @dinonugasaurus + anyone else who wants to join :)

Picrew tag game!- Create yourself now vs how you looked when you were a kid

Link

I was tagged by @cutebisexualmess for this but the chain was too long so I'm restarting!

If only that little girl could see me now (she'd probably think I was cool tbh)

uhm tagging: @b3achfagz (ik you dont do tag games so u can just ignore this but i though u might find it cool) @cassiecryptic @viktheviking1 @depressedgremlinbitch @ramencat12 @inkyslimee @the-horrifying-digital-circus @patipati @cute--thing @musicalsiphonophore @tastetherainbow290 @disenchantedwarlock @bookishcatcafe and anyone else who sees this and thinks it looks cool!!

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Thank you for tagging me ! ♡ Tadaaaaaa

Tagging : @squidsandthings @lameotello @edukincon @belis86 @pissass11 @emmakapla @poishroom @strobilomyces-confusus @jasontoddlovr @pinkished @dinonugasaurus + anyone else who wants to join :)

No pressure btw ! :)

fuck it. worm on a string picrew chain. let's fucking go

happy worm creation my friends

tagging @areyoudoingthis @cursed-coat-of-homosexuality @peanutbutterex @tfemteach @piratecaptainscaptainpirates (no pressure 💛)

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You are totally right !

I have a new life motto :

"Laziness will sometimes help you achieve great things."

- One of my best friends