Funguary Day 13: Fly Agaric

Fun fact, there are mushrooms living in your lungs right now!

Humans breathe anywhere from 500 to 100,000 spores daily depending on local environmental conditions. The fungi have a variety of ways to survive the immune response of the human body. Most are harmless and either die or do nothing at all. However, some fungi spores inhaled are possible pathogens or cause respiratory issues, and others are essential to a healthy microbiome .

So, if you’re breathing right now, just know that there's spores in that air, and your lungs are a nice cozy environment for them :)

What type of mushrooms are these ?

uhhhhhhhmmm gonna guess oyster mushroom???

Try as I may I still can't identify fungi super well T-T

what are they?

have you drank enough water today ?:3

Whats water?

Pick a mushroom to eat!

Time for my favorite game, guess the mushroom that won't kill you! The People™️ did so well on my last one in fact that I've made it harder this time :D

Enjoy!

WAIT STOP YOUR BLOG IS SO CUTE I LOVE IT

Aaaaaa ty!!!!!!

Can confirm, I am four mushrooms with a keyboard

One for WASD and type, one for shift, one for jump, and one for the knife

@lemonade-tree7

internet friends are so funny bro. here are some fuckers who know more about me than my mother. their names? well this one's no eyed joe, that one's takeout container, that one's moo, this one's named after several hit video game characters, that one is soup and so is that other one, here are a couple named after several thousand year old stories. that one's scammer. that one's volcano residue and here's fungus and rodent and there's podcast character and we can't forget the birds. this one says he's not named after a supernatural character but there's no evidence to support that. here's vegetables and arson. i love them all very dearly. oh yeah and they're all queer

My art for round one of an art event I'm currently participating in! I decided to go with hermitraft 10 Gem for this prompt :)

@mcyt-soulmate-sweepstakes 

I will be back to my regularly scheduled mycology tomorrow :)

Whoa :0

They're so neat!!!!

Funguary Day 27: Scarlet Cup

Most species that would come to mind when you think of fungi are basidiomycetes, fungi that produce their spores in cells called basidia. This phylum of fungi contains most of the “fleshy” fungi, including all fungi with gills or pores. Some “fleshy” fungi however, like the Scarlet Cup, are Ascomycetes. Mushrooms like morels and saddle fungi are also a part of this phylum. Ascomycetes produce their spores in sac-like structures called asci, unlike the basidia of the basidiomycetes. See the diagram below for more clarification on the difference between asci and basidia! 

See the rest of my posts for funguary here!

Witches Cap Fungi

Mushroom of the Week No. 1

The witches cap mushroom, or Hygrocybe conica, starts off a vivid red-orange with patches of yellow. As it ages it slowly turns black naturally, or bruises black due to injury. This is actually one of the most helpful factors in identification, though the fungi itself is not sought after for its edibility. It cannot be cultivated in labs presently, suggesting that it requires something special from its environment, possibly a mycorrhizal relationship. For this it needs to be investigated further.

Funguary Day 6: Inky Cap

Within 24 hours of emerging the fruiting bodies of the inky cap go through a process called “autodigestion” where they digest their own caps, becoming the black inky liquid commonly associated with these mushrooms.

Many believe that this is to spread the spores of the mushroom, although other doubt this due to the fact mature spores are released before the mushroom’s cells begin to break down

See the rest of my posts for funguary here!