For people interested in mycology

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/3656439

> cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/3477756 > > > One of the 'Winners of the 2022 World Nature Photography Awards....."Fungus Horizon” by Mr. Endy (Singapore). Silver, Plants and fungi. Subject: Crepidotus fungus. Location: Windsor Nature Park, Singapore...'

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/3120958

> cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/3100541 > > > Mold art.....enjoy :) > > Not sure if this quite fits this community, but thought it may be interesting

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One of my favorite edible mushrooms. I successfully cloned these onto cardboard this year. You just wait until they get a little fuzzy in the fridge and then cut the tips off, put it on pasteurized cardboard and in a few days it should be running. Can't wait to play with that more this year, I would like to make some wooden dowels and try to grow these the way you grow shitakes.

This is one of my favorite ecological interactions. There is a lot of speculation about what exactly is happening, though the relationship involves two mushrooms, an Amallaria, usually Amallaria Mellia(The honey mushroom) and any number of entaloma species. One of the two parasitizes the other and professional mycologists love to argue and speculate about which parasitizes the other. From my experience the partially aborted forms have all the trappings of the entaloma genus having pinkish gills and a boring grey hue, so it is my opinion that the honey mushroom is the one doing the parasitizing, which I think stands up based on the fact that they are prolific, fast growing and generally parasitize trees, so it aligns with their ecological habits. Anyway, whatever is happening is very interesting and maybe because we don't really know what is happening.

Hydnum Umbilicatum I found earlier this year in Vermont. Very good, like a sweeter version of a chanterelle.