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Soils, forests, humans.
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👍 A great day at the Creating Canopies II: Resilience, Adaptation & Regenerative Approaches conference last week.

🌟 The event opened with a keynote from @chrisquine.bsky.social on “Perils, pests & protection”, setting the stage for two days of talks, poster sessions & a visit to Coombs Wood Forest.
September 19, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Myxogastria sp. growing on dead hardwood. While slime molds aren’t considered fungi anymore, they’re kinda grandfathered into the interests of mycophiles, so I’ll tag it anyway. Those are ½mm marks, so those capillitia are less than a millimeter in diameter!

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This photo is largely covered by an L-shaped metal ruler with half-millimeter graduations (the scene itself is only 2cm wide), but peering over the edge at the top is the fruiting body of a slime mold, the genus of which I won’t even hazard a guess, let alone species. There are four sporangia growing on dead hardwood (an old piece of firewood, so it could be almost anything, although I suspect it’s almond), the leftmost with only its capillitium visible and the two on the right nodding over to the side. Their stipes are dark brown and finely textured and their capillitia are a subdued orange hue with rusty-brown areolate patches, almost similar in appearance to what you’d expect to see on the cap of a mushroom like an Amanita, but on a much smaller scale! A closer macro shot of the same scene, but with the sporangia filling the frame. The depth of field is shallow as hell here, with only a thin sliver of wood and (most of) the sporangia in focus. Attempting this sort of macro shot is a real challenge with a phone and is significantly more annoying to deal with than my using my old camera. A cheap clip-on macro diopter was utilized here and this photo is the result of hand-stacking four frames of varying focus.
December 28, 2024 at 6:34 PM
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Mycena punkissima (sección Longisetae) from Cinco Palos, Veracruz, Mexico. Photographed in the type location on July 3, 2017, two years before it was described.

#Mycena #fungi #mushrooms #fungifriends
December 28, 2024 at 7:07 PM
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I never get tired of fungi. They are fascinating.
November 18, 2023 at 3:56 PM
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Hello world!
November 16, 2023 at 5:08 AM