#lichen #fungi #macro #inaturalist #macro #macrophotography #okanagan #similkameen #britishcolumbia #canada
"To most of us, mushrooms are just weird-looking woodland growths, and a fungus is something you probably need a cream for. Increasingly, though, scientists are describing fungi as more sophisticated than we previously thought.
Some even say 'intelligent', with a few researchers going so far as to hint they might be conscious.
While such theories are controversial among experts, the rest of us would like to know if, for instance, our breakfast ingredients are thinking about us. So, what should we make of such reports?
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'[Fungi have] developed a really efficient and effective way of navigating minute changes in their environment,' says Stokes. 'And that alone – doing it without a central nervous system or a brain – is amazing.'
Whether this kind of behaviour demonstrates intelligence, she isn’t sure, but she says it might be 'worth considering' a wider definition of the term, given that it’s already being applied to the non-living, as with artificial intelligence, for instance."
https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/fungi-could-be-conscious
some beautiful mushrooms i passed on the ride to the community center yesterday. anyone know what kind they are? #fungi #mushrooms
Golden Reishi (Ganoderma curtisii)
Sugars from the ocean are responsible for a large part of the ice nuclei over southern hemisphere https://phys.org/news/2025-07-sugars-salty-ocean-responsible-large.html Paper by Susan Hartmann et al.: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.4c08014
"ice-forming molecules (affecting cloud formation) produced by #fungi & #protists in seawater can enter the atmosphere... there was a lack of knowledge about the chemical identity of these molecules... polysaccharides could be the missing piece of the puzzle"
𝘏𝘺𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘶𝘳𝘧𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘢, top and bottom, from the Wiley Trails:
Hubby and I took Emma on a hike on Saturday that was awesome! We came across so many mushrooms that we had to look at and snap photos of, which made our hike significantly longer.
Emma even stopped to sniff a couple of them. She was not as interested in the mushrooms as she is in fresh dog pee, however.
#sporespondence
#fungi
#mushtodon
#hike
#dogsofmastodon
Happy #MushroomMonday from #Brest, #BZH!
UL: Cantharellus pallens — pale chanterelle
LL: Russula virescens — green brittlegill
UR: Gymnopus sp. — spindle shank
LR: Scleroderma citrinum — common earthball
Rains lately have all the fungi pushing out their fruits. Found this Oak Bracket the size of a large pizza.
Pseudoinotus dryadeus
Earth Star mushrooms are wonderful, looking like flowers with petals. This was the best I've seen this year.
Pd. Earth Star is a great name
@glyph a few biophilia posts and peeps you might enjoy~
https://wandering.shop/@forestfjord/114846183050472266
https://mas.to/@Hagukh/114846151768669416
https://babka.social/@littlemiao/114846114307914140
https://beige.party/@TheEddieShow/114845864802417682
https://ottawa.place/@stephanie/114846055623614670
https://mas.to/@helenclayton/114846123358015715
https://c.im/@carolannie/114846104524054444
https://mastodon.scot/@alexlac51/114846328771977244
https://mindly.social/@otterX/114846318144671061
https://sunny.garden/@handmade_ghost/114846208295908835 lots of great bird pics from ghost
https://turtleisland.social/@amandamakepeace/114846296920655256
The wee folk danced here.
The genetic prison that traps a ghost plant https://botany.one/2025/06/the-genetic-prison-that-traps-a-ghost-plant/ paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pei3.70060
"M. humile gets energy from #fungi... Even though they don’t photosynthesise, ghost #plants still have leaves... it must have a flower to attract the #insects & get pollinated. But this leads to a genetic problem. The petals and sepals are specialised forms of leaf. Some of the genes that shape the petals and sepals also work on the ghost plant’s leaves... Without the leaves there is no flower."
Slender Parasols are fairly common in Britain and Ireland and they also occur across most of Europe.
https://theweeowlart.etsy.com/listing/1887810317
#FediGiftShop #ScottishArtist #MastoArt #CreativeToots
#MushroomArt #Fungi #WildMushrooms #OriginalArt #Drawing #PenAndInk #ColourPencil #MixedMedia #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #ArtFromScotland #GiftIdeas #ArtShop
You'll catch more flies with stinkhorns, said nobody. Ever. It's true though.
Lysurus mokusin
Orange #fungi spotted on two rose hips, found on #TheWalkToday near #Sømosen , #Herlev .
Could it be some Uredinales specie?
#mycology
#DanmarksNatur
High-altitude allies: Alpine #plants and their fungal partners https://jecologyblog.com/2025/07/08/high-altitude-allies-alpine-plants-and-their-fungal-partners/ paper: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2745.70075
"alpine bistort is not a passive host for #fungi. Instead, it seems to play an active role in choosing its microbial allies, especially when conditions get tough. At the highest, coldest sites the plants appeared to strengthen their partnerships with beneficial fungi. In short, the plants may be choosing better allies when they are in more stressful conditions"
Four #fungi related to species that hijack brains of insects discovered https://phys.org/news/2025-07-fungi-species-hijack-brains-insects.html
"In various #forests across #Thailand, researchers have discovered four new species of #Ophiocordyceps, each specializing in parasitizing one species of fly... In Khao Yai NP near Kong Kaeo Waterfall, for example, they found a robber fly attached to the bottom of a leaf with small flower-like growths protruding from its head, thorax and abdomen, earning the new #fungus the name O. floriformis."