Just some tiny mushrooms #handmade #miniatures #mushroom #mushrooms #snails #mushroomart #snailart
Desperately needed outside time this weekend and honestly the mushrooms delivered
Enchanted Greenhouse: A Portal to Forgotten Magic
Enchanted forest with glowing mushrooms and a glass dome structure under moonlight, creating a mystical atmosphere.
Macrocybe titans
https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Macrocybe_titans.html
Ecology: Apparently saprobic; growing alone or, more often, gregariously or in loose clusters in grassy or sandy areas, or in ground disturbed by landscaping (usually in the year after the disturbance to the soil)—or, in Central America, growing from ant colonies; fall and winter; In North America distributed from Mexico to Texas, Florida, and the Carolinas; also found in Central America, the Caribbean, and South America. The illustrated and described collections are from Florida and South Carolina.
Cap: 20-30 (reportedly up to 100) cm across at maturity; convex, becoming broadly convex or flat; dry; bald, but sometimes cracking in age or in dry weather; pale yellowish to brownish or buff; fading with age.
Gills: Attached to the stem; crowded; short-gills frequent; white to pale brownish.
Stem: 15-25 cm long; 8-14 cm thick; equal or slightly swollen; dry; whitish overall, with small, bent-back, brownish to whitish scales that become more prominent with age.
Flesh: White; firm; not changing on exposure.
Odor: Not distinctive.
Spore Print: Reported as creamy white.
Microscopic Features: Spores 5-7 x 4-5 m; broadly ellipsoid; smooth; hyaline in KOH; inamyloid. Lamellar trama parallel. Basidia 4-sterigmate; 30-35 x 5-8 m; clavate. Pseudocystidia scattered on gill faces, scarcely projecting; to 50 x 7.5 m; fusiform to lageniform, with or without an extended neck; thin-walled; with refractive contents in KOH. Pileipellis a cutis of elements 2-5 m wide. Clamp connections present.
Glowing mushroom goodness painted during this month’s Patreon stream~
The replay is available for Adepts and the Inner Circle: https://www.patreon.com/posts/march-25-paint-125505929?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
You still got until the end of the day to get your 1st month in the Apprentice or Adept tier at 15% off with the code SPRINGFEVER
Some current events reminded me of this bit of javascript I wrote awhile back.
A cluster of possibly Gymnopilus (rustgill) mushrooms emerging from a tree stump a day after autumn rain
@Smithsonianmag Oh yes, #shrooms could become an important alternative for ketamine, when we'll shoot the SpaceX owner to Mars!
These skinny mushrooms are popping up in my tomato seed trays. Does anyone know what they are?
#Gardening #Mushrooms
A while back I posted how Purple Tooth [Trichaptum abietinum] mushrooms can be confusing because, well, they’re seldom purple. Here’s a fruiting that has aged to nearly all white.
Aged alder bracket (𝘐𝘯𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘶𝘴 𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴 or 𝘔𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘢), from the Wiley Trails.
I took the picture from an angle as if the tree were still standing, but the rotted out trunk had broken in the wind and lay horizontally across our path.
Tarun Nayar is a musician, but his instrument of choice isn't guitar or piano. He makes melodies from mushrooms (and other plants). Atlas Obscura spoke to him about how it all works, his goal with the project, and his next adventure, exploring the relationship between taste and sound.
A page of mushroom lamps~
My patrons already got to see the first one a few days ago, plus a couple process pictures and musings on this marker set.
We sticker making today! Different sizes available, grab one now!
Pennsylvania's mushroom industry faces urgent labor shortage—latest immigration policies will likely make it worse
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-pennsylvania-mushroom-industry-urgent-labor.html