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MushroomBot<p>Marasmius plicatulus</p><p><a href="https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Marasmius_plicatulus.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mushroomexpert.com/Marasmius_p</span><span class="invisible">licatulus.html</span></a></p><p>Ecology: Saprobic on litter and debris under hardwoods or conifers; growing alone, scattered, or gregariously; fall and winter; along the West Coast.</p><p>Cap: 1-5 cm; conical or bell-shaped when young, expanding to broadly conical or convex; dry; finely velvety, at least when fresh; sometimes developing radial wrinkles with age; purple-red to reddish brown.</p><p>Gills: Narrowly attached to the stem or free from it; distant; white to creamy or yellowish; sometimes developing pinkish to brownish edges.</p><p>Stem: 5-13 cm long; up to 3 mm thick; equal; dry; brittle; bald; creamy or pinkish above, purple-red to reddish black or dark brown below; basal mycelium white.</p><p>Flesh: Thin; whitish.</p><p>Odor and Taste: Taste mild; odor not distinctive.</p><p>Spore Print: White.</p><p>Microscopic Features: Spores 11-16.5 x 5-6.5 ; smooth; fusoid, subfusoid, or amygdaliform; inamyloid. Pleurocystidia absent. Cheilocystidia cylindric with diverticulate apices ("broom cells"); to about 25 x 6 . Pileipellis hymeniform, with dextrinoid broom cells. Trama dextrinoid.</p><p><a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/mushrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mushrooms</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/fungi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fungi</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/mycology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mycology</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/shrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shrooms</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/mushtodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mushtodon</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/sporespondence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sporespondence</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/floraspondence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>floraspondence</span></a></p>
MushroomBot<p>Leratiomyces ceres</p><p><a href="https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Leratiomyces_ceres.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mushroomexpert.com/Leratiomyce</span><span class="invisible">s_ceres.html</span></a></p><p>Ecology: Saprobic; growing scattered or gregariously in woodchips or in sawdust, lawns, gardens, and so on; fall through spring; coastal California to British Columbia. The illustrated and described collections are from California.</p><p>Cap: 2-6.5 cm; convex, becoming broadly convex, broadly bell-shaped, or nearly flat; bald; sticky when fresh, but soon dry; reddish orange to brownish orange; when young adorned with white veil remnants along the margin; the margin not lined.</p><p>Gills: Attached to the stem by a notch; close; short-gills frequent; pale yellow at first, later purplish gray to purple-black; with whitish to pale yellow edges when mature; sometimes developing reddish stains and spots.</p><p>Stem: 3-5 cm long; up to 1 cm thick; equal; dry; with or without a ring zone; bald or finely hairy; whitish to yellowish, staining reddish orange with maturity; base often with whitish to yellowish mycelial threads; basal mycelium white.</p><p>Flesh: Whitish; unchanging when sliced.</p><p>Odor and Taste: Not distinctive.</p><p>Spore Print: Dark purple-gray.</p><p>Chemical Reactions: KOH on cap surface dark gray.</p><p>Microscopic Features: Spores 10-14 x 6-8 m; ellipsoid; with a large (1 m) pore at one end; smooth; brown in KOH. Basidia 4-sterigmate. Cheilocystidia as leptocystidia; 25-40 x 5-7.5 m; cylindric-flexuous to fusiform or somewhat irregular; smooth; thin-walled; hyaline or golden in KOH. Pleuro-chrysocystidia 35-50 x 10-15 m; lageniform; thin-walled; smooth; hyaline, with a globular, yellowish-refractive inclusion in KOH; sometimes absent. Pileipellis a thin ixocutis of cylindric elements 5-10 m wide, golden in KOH, smooth, clamped at septa; over a cellular subpellis.</p><p><a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/mushrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mushrooms</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/fungi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fungi</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/mycology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mycology</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/shrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shrooms</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/mushtodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mushtodon</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/sporespondence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sporespondence</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/floraspondence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>floraspondence</span></a></p>
LindenShieldARTs 🇺🇦<p>The full spread after showing bits and pieces here and there. 💚🌿</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mastoart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastoart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/traditionalart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>traditionalart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sketchbook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sketchbook</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/coloredpencil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coloredpencil</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/natureart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>natureart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mosstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mosstodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mushtodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mushtodon</span></a></p>
mel<p><a href="https://meow.social/tags/MushroomMonday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MushroomMonday</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://meow.social/tags/mushrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mushrooms</span></a> <a href="https://meow.social/tags/mushtodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mushtodon</span></a> <a href="https://meow.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://meow.social/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> <a href="https://meow.social/tags/NaturePhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NaturePhotography</span></a> <a href="https://meow.social/tags/moss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>moss</span></a> <a href="https://meow.social/tags/Mosstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mosstodon</span></a> <a href="https://meow.social/tags/fungi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fungi</span></a> <a href="https://meow.social/tags/lichensubscribe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lichensubscribe</span></a></p>
Dave<p>Lesser Spotted Lampshade Fungi</p><p>*I may have just made that up</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Monday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Monday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/MacroMonday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MacroMonday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/MycologyMonday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MycologyMonday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Fungi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fungi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Fungiverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fungiverse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Mushtodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mushtodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Sporerespondence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sporerespondence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Photo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Photo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a></p>
LindenShieldARTs 🇺🇦<p>✨NEW &amp; FOR SALE✨</p><p>“Fairy Arch”, gouache and coloured pencil, 2025</p><p>Make it yours: <a href="https://lindenshieldarts.com/products/mixed-media-original-fairy-arch" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lindenshieldarts.com/products/</span><span class="invisible">mixed-media-original-fairy-arch</span></a></p><p>Can you guess what the glowing green flowers at the base are inspired by? 🙃</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mastoart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastoart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mixedmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mixedmedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gouache" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gouache</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/coloredpencil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coloredpencil</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/traditionalart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>traditionalart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/originalart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>originalart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mosstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mosstodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mushtodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mushtodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fantasy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fantasyart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fantasyart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/natureart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>natureart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fairy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fairy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/whimsicalart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>whimsicalart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fedigiftshop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fedigiftshop</span></a></p>
MushroomBot<p>Helvella lacunosa</p><p><a href="https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Helvella_lacunosa.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mushroomexpert.com/Helvella_la</span><span class="invisible">cunosa.html</span></a></p><p>Ecology: Probably mycorrhizal; growing alone, scattered, or gregariously in woods under conifers&amp;mdash;often in disturbed ground (roadbanks, landscaping sites, and so on); in eastern North America usually found in wet, mossy areas in cold conifer bogs; summer and fall; originally described from Europe, and widely distributed there, although more common in montane and boreal regions; reported from Asia and Central America; in North America widely distributed, especially in northern and montane regions. The illustrated and described collections (aside from Schaeffer's illustration of the type) are from Michigan.</p><p>Cap: 1-4 cm across and 1-5 cm high; irregularly lobed and convoluted, or occasionally loosely saddle-shaped or cushion-shaped; black to very dark brown; bald but wrinkled; the margin usually attached to the stem in several places; undersurface bald, gray to grayish brown.</p><p>Stem: 1.5-4 cm long; 5-15 mm thick; sometimes whitish when young, but soon grayish to dark gray; deeply and ornately ribbed and pocketed&amp;mdash;the ribs rounded, or sometimes sharp and double-edged.</p><p>Flesh: Thin; brittle; chambered; whitish to grayish.</p><p>Odor: Not distinctive.</p><p>Microscopic Features: Spores 13-18 x 9-11 m; broadly ellipsoid; smooth; with one oil large droplet; hyaline in KOH and in water. Asci 200-250 x 10-15 m; 8-spored. Paraphyses 200-250 x 2.5-10 m; filiform, with rounded to clavate apices; smooth; hyaline to brownish, often with granular contents. Excipular surface a palisade of clavate, hyaline to brown terminal elements.</p><p><a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/mushrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mushrooms</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/fungi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fungi</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/mycology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mycology</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/shrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shrooms</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/mushtodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mushtodon</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/sporespondence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sporespondence</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/floraspondence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>floraspondence</span></a></p>
LindenShieldARTs 🇺🇦<p>You might remember me mentioning that I currently participate in another exhibition at Wyrd <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Strasbourg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Strasbourg</span></a> and as part of this exhibition, where all pieces have to be created by at least two artists, several of us filled a sketchbook together. I had the honour of doing the very first page and ofc I cheated a little and painted on black paper that I then glued/taped in there. 😄</p><p>🖌️<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gouache" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gouache</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/coloredpencil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coloredpencil</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mastoart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastoart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mixedmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mixedmedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fantasyart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fantasyart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/forest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>forest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mushtodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mushtodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mosstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mosstodon</span></a></p>
Jer 🚵🏼<p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/FungiFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FungiFriday</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mushtodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mushtodon</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mosstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mosstodon</span></a></p>
LindenShieldARTs 🇺🇦<p>[EDIT: The right one already found a home, thank you so much! Still one left though~ 🍄]</p><p>Two new original paintings are up for sale! ✨</p><p>🖌️Gouache and coloured pencil on watercolour paper, based on personal photos</p><p>Adopt them: <a href="https://lindenshieldarts.com/products/mixed-media-originals-amanita" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lindenshieldarts.com/products/</span><span class="invisible">mixed-media-originals-amanita</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mastoart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastoart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/traditionalart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>traditionalart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mixedmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mixedmedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/originalart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>originalart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gouache" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gouache</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/coloredpencil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coloredpencil</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mushrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mushrooms</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mushtodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mushtodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/natureart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>natureart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fedigiftshop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fedigiftshop</span></a></p>
Ashe🐈‍⬛<p>Didn't find <em>quite</em> as many cool fungi as I was hoping for this weekend, but there was still plenty to see! Here's a nice one which I believe is a gilled polypore (<em>Trametes betulina</em>); I collected a bit of this specimen to put under the microscope so hopefully in the next couple days I'll have a chance to get some pics and confirm the species</p><p><a href="https://meow.social/tags/MushroomMonday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MushroomMonday</span></a> <a href="https://meow.social/tags/mushtodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mushtodon</span></a> <a href="https://meow.social/tags/sporespondence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sporespondence</span></a> <a href="https://meow.social/tags/mushrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mushrooms</span></a> <a href="https://meow.social/tags/NaturePhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NaturePhotography</span></a></p>
daieno bika<p>Found some nifty fungus friends growing on this standing dead birch yesterday. </p><p><a class="hashtag" href="https://akkoma.steadhaven.xyz/tag/mushroommonday" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MushroomMonday</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://akkoma.steadhaven.xyz/tag/mushtodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mushtodon</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://akkoma.steadhaven.xyz/tag/fungi" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fungi</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://akkoma.steadhaven.xyz/tag/mushrooms" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mushrooms</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://akkoma.steadhaven.xyz/tag/birch" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#birch</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://akkoma.steadhaven.xyz/tag/graybirch" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#graybirch</a></p>