I?m out of town right now with stunningly crappy internet, but will try to redeem myself a bit with some scheduled posts. Mostly pictures (uploaded before crappy internet). We?ll have plenty of time to do some hardcore SCIENCE in the new year! =)
For this Friday, let?s do mushrooms. I?ve collected a few photos of these things while going out hiking, and spend way too much time staring at the ground and rotten tree trunks for my own good. Despite having a slight extracurricular obsession with mushrooms, I?m not very good at identifying them ? can do genus if I?m lucky (ie, it?s obvious). But they?re alien and pretty to look at nevertheless, so I hope you enjoy! Remember, just as in the previous Frivolous Photo Friday where we witnessed a killing machine devouring a roach, these guys are not any more docile. Beneath the passive-looking fruiting bodies, the mycelium is busy exuding digestive substances into its surroundings, and soaking in the tasty remnants. Basically, the stomach of a fungus is its outside ? and we?re all part of it, sooner or later?
First, some Jack-o-Lanterns. Apparently, they bioluminesce, but I haven?t yet seen that.
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A couple thinly stalked Mycena sp.. This is a particularly understudied genus of tiny, yet elegant, finely-stalked mushrooms ? some quite colourful, but most fairly pale. They still look cute close up though.
And here is something yellow with a seriously slimy cap. This is a young specimen, as the veil is still intact and hiding the gills. If this veil is finely net-like, these might be a Cortinarius sp., but I think the veil might be too densely fibrillar for that. Not that I really know what I?m talking about or anything, especially without half-functional internet.
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If you have some ID or general cool mushroom stories to tell ? comment away!
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