#fungus mycellium

[microscope-world]

Fungus Mycelium urine from a mushroom (the yellowing of the mycelium substrate in the colonization of mushrooms), captured under the ZEISS Axiolab 5 microscope.

#fungus #mycellium #fungus mycellium #microscope #mushroom #microscopy

[foldingfittedsheets]

If you really loved that iconic mushroom post you might enjoy this design in my Threadless, Redbubble, and Teepublic.

Sales support a broke queer art student and you get cool art on your stuff!

#art #my art #mushroom #fungus #tell me the name of god you fungal piece of shit #you cannot kill me in any way that matters #fungi #mycellium #death #existentialism #existential dread

[asta-daily]

Trip to Mushroom Land 03

After a long road full of wonders and surprises, you've reach the heart of Fungi Haven. I hope that along the way you made nice encounters, that you saw many marvelous landscapes, and made a lot of new friends. Surely you're a different person by now, such is the effect of traveling.

Would you like to see more of this trip? Tell me and I shall provide!

/* Pencil doodle on A6 sketchbook - Porte-mine sur carnet A6 */

Après un long chemin rempli d’embûches mais aussi de merveilles, vous avez atteint le coeur de Fungi Haven. J'ose espérer qu'au fil du chemin vous avez fait de belles rencontres, vu de sublimes paysages, et trouvé moult nouveaux amis. Vous devriez être quelqu'un d'autre à présent, une personne différente, transformée par le simple fait de voyager.

Souhaitez-vous que je vous en raconte d'avantage ? Dites-le moi, et je le ferai.

#art #mycellium #shrooms #mushrooms #fungus #travel #traveler #water #landscape #nature

[duckinthewild]

"Funki Fungi" Did you know fungi can actually talk to one another? I didn't, now i do. And i think it's rad. So rad i opened PS for the first time in a month and a half to make something out of it. heres a super cool article if you fancy some light reading:

#fungi #mushrooms #fungus #graphic art #graphic design #digital collage #2d art #digital art #photoshop #adobephotoshop #collage art #mixed media #mushroomcore #mycellium #mushroom art #art #illustration #rustic #goblincore #nature #plants #plantcore #plant community #summer project

[boneszphoto]

mushroom appreciation post ❤️

#west coast #vancouver island #yyj #yyjphotographer #bc #nature #victoria bc #mushroom #mushrooms #polypore #fungus #mycellium #toadstool #west coast best coast #wet coast #rainforest #pnw aesthetic #pnwexplored

[ruthlesslistener]

Oh to be wl... have a tiny none gender husband that you can carry like a cat...

I'mma be honest with you, the core part of Wyrmroot that makes me love the ship so much is how they look like they'd be the sterotypical heterosexual version of what a bug relationship might be (well, sterotypical heterosexual in human terms, the bug standard is just 'smaller male to very fertile female'), but the more you look at them, the more you realize that that is not the case at ALL. They're just joint cosplaying mortal relationships for fun. The White Lady is a vast plant-fungus sorta being that is manoevering an avatar that might be telepathically linked to a network of root-mycellium that stretches all over Hallownest. She has no connection to the concept of the female gender or sex- she chooses to lean into it specifically because she finds mortals amusing, at least for a little while. Also, explaining the 25,000+ sex variances thing she might have gotten from her shroom side would be too much work. The Pale King, on the other hand, is about as socially obtuse as a fucking rock, but he wants very very badly for the bugs of Hallownest to find him an effective and capable ruler, so sure, he'll take whatever gender tags that they put on him, and if that means finding new ways to court WL, then that's just a bonus. Same with being small enough to be picked up and carried by Big Wife. They're total fuckin weirdos and I love them ur honour

#hollow knight #wyrmroot #poly none gender left beef is a very important dynamic for wyrmtoot #*WYRMROOT #FUCK

[mxwhore]

how do mushrooms make textiles

just wanna clarify that is it not the 'mushroom' (fruiting body, the penis of the fungus) they use, its the mycellium!

when you culture fungi in a petri plaque, you can actually clasify the mycellium according to its appearance: some species are really soft and velvety, some others form granules and some are team sludge, fuck yeah! The first type i mentioned is particularly apt for it because it dries like this!

(Credit to the chilean startup Sporatex)

Thats the raw material, lets say. Its warm, durable, and easy to make. Hell, I made these by accident in my first lab job. Right now, scientists are perfecting the process of turning the raw material into individual fibers to weave, but even like THAT it can be turned into something beautiful!

(Credit to MycoTEX)

#tessas mushyrooms #i love you fungi #tessa answers!

[shinraalpha]

15 Questions + 15 Friends

Thanks for the tag @stochastiz!

Are you named after anyone?

not even slightly. my first name has an unusual spelling which i think is 99% a mistake by my parents but oh well.

When was the last time you cried?

LMAO i have cried three times today because i had a panic attack this morning so that's left me emotionally Strung. Out. then the god of war dlc said it would take 2 hours to download and i cried over that because i am having a Hard Time lol.

Do you have kids?

none. i can't imagine having kids. i've worked with children and i write for children professionally but i am such a hermit with a need for space and isolation that i can't even the appeal in having a partner let alone children.

What sports do you play/have you played?

me and sports don't mix much anymore, but i used to swim a lot and i still love being in the water.

Do you use sarcasm?

does the pope shit in the woods?

What is the first thing you notice about people?

usually their clothing. I like people's style and the way they dress tends to signal fun little things about them, as well as potential common interests.

What's your eye color?

a pale blue-grey that gets me a lot of comments

Scary movies or happy endings?

happy endings bore me, i like a bleak as hell ending. and an unsettling middle.

Any talents?

i've been playing music since i was 12 and if i dare say i'm pretty good now. i play bass in a band called Pigeon Lips, we're on spotify and youtube and junk. i also love storytelling and i like to think i'm half-decent writer and dungeon master (though fatigue has taken that last one away from me).

Where were you born?

that beautiful tory cesspit known as the United Kingdom

What are your hobbies?

i read a lot, i play a lot of music, and i play a lot of ttrpgs and video games. i'm trying to get back into the cinema this year. i collect spores molds and fungus.

Do you have any petss

not yet but one day i will own a large grumpy old cat called Renfield

How tall are you?

i am 5ft 6in

Favorite subject in school?

i have always loved science - i find science endlessly fascinating, be it plants or chemical reactions or deep space or quantum mechanics. i also adored english, telling stories and picking apart how narratives work

Dream job?

i am lying on a rocky shore, the sound of the waves pulling through the pebbles is like white noise. it soothes me. i can feel the mycellium and roots of countless mushrooms and moss burrowing into my skin. i am returning to the Earth. i breathe out, and for the first time in my life, i feel calm.

Tagging?

@dreamalottie @voidspacecowboy @quasi-normalcy @bae-owyn @excitedrainbow and idk anyone else who wants to do it i'm not your mother

[askvectorprime]

Dear Vector Prime, I recently saw the Super Mario Bros movie and, I couldn't help but wonder, have Transformers ever visited the Mushroom Kingdom?

Dear Mushroom Master,

Indeed they have! You may recall the Maximal starship Dianosk and its many deep-space colonization missions—here is the story of one such adventure…

Several solar cycles after departing Starbase Rugby with a fresh complement of thirty protoforms, the four-man crew of the starship Dianosk—consisting of captain Updraft, engineer Ratchet, security officer Regulator, and ensign Brakeline—arrived at a red planet somewhere on the spinward edge of the galaxy. While the planet Dykayra had been known to Cybertronian astronomers for some time, no Transformer had set foot on the planet since before the Great War, many millions of stellar cycles ago.

Although the Dianosk picked up no signs of extant intelligent life, orbital scans picked up vast forests of skyscraper-sized mushrooms, whose toxic spore clouds would choke out any organic lifeform in nanokliks. More intriguingly, their sensors detected rich veins of subterranean energon, as well as signs of extensive prior habitation—the tips of ancient, crumbling towers poked up through the red fungal canopy, while abandoned maglev lines and crumbling superhighways criss-crossed the planet. Intrigued at the prospect of discovering a lost civilization, Updraft ordered his crew to land their ship in an abandoned spaceport; to better explore the planet’s treacherous, fungus-based ecosystem, he decided to activate a protoform to assist them in their endeavors, whose native alternate mode would allow him to better explore the terrain. The scanning process yielded FunGus, a gregarious young Transformer whose unusual mycelium alternate form allowed him to easily navigate the planet’s terrain.

The five-man exploration team established a temporary command post as a beachhead for further exploration of the city. As they picked through the detritus, the team uncovered many strange clues regarding the planet’s prior inhabitants—garments they surmised to be hazard suits of some kind, and an abandoned botanical research lab where dozens of brightly colored mushrooms had long ago burst from their holding tanks—perhaps, they surmised, the source of many of the strange, colorful mushrooms that seemed to form the ecosystem’s primary basis. Before the team could report back to Updraft, however, they were attacked by dozens of strange, humanoid fungi! Although the creatures only wielded crude melee weapons fashioned from old lead pipes and rusted nails, they were numerous, and difficult to deter—worse yet, amidst the chaos, FunGus abruptly turned on his crewmates! The terrified crew dragged the wounded Brakeline to safety, even as FunGus escaped into the overgrown sewers beneath the city along with their attackers.

Unsuited as they were to trekking through the dangerous fungal jungle, it took several more solar cycles before the rest of the team could locate their escaped ensign; when they did find him, it was in a series of abandoned catacombs, where a network of glowing tendrils connected him and hundreds of other fungus-creatures to an enormous, building sized fungus. As one, the aliens moved in on the Cybertronian explorers… but, before the encounter could descend into violence, FunGus announced that Queen Mycellium, ruler of their collective, had chosen him to serve as her mouthpiece. Millennia ago, she explained, their race began as parasites: a freak lab accident created a race of aggressive spore-based lifeforms who reproduced through unwilling hosts, until they and their progeny had choked out everything else on the planet, including the original civilization responsible for creating them. In the intervening years, however, they had attempted to move past their ignoble beginnings, and her collective hopefully marked the beginning of a new era of peace and understanding. She and her minions had mistaken FunGus for a wayward member of her own tribe, and attempted to “liberate” him from what she perceived to be alien captors; their unique form of spore-based communication had accidentally driven FunGus into a frenzy.

Fortunately for all involved, Updraft was able to settle the matter agreeably, and the planetary monarch graciously accepted his request to establish a research base and Energon mining outpost on the planetary surface. When Updraft and his crew left for their next adventure, FunGus remained behind to further map the planet and act as a kind of ambassador between the two species, ready to welcome further waves of Cybertronian colonists to this unique planet.

#ask vector prime #transformers #maccadam #beast wars #botbots #dianosk #starbase rugby #dykayra #updraft #ratchet #regulator #brakeline #fun gus #queen mycellium #alex-lemonds-93

[dying-acc-idk-man]

I-- I leave an ask about mushroom mother and his means of facial expression via marker vs makeup and I come back to???? VORE??????

Also, morbid curiosity!! Seeing what happened when he was beheaded by Scar in that comic, theoretically, if someone picked his head up and stuck their hand inside the neck hole, what would it feel like? Could they theoretically take a doll customizer approach and use pliers to rip bits and bobbles of the shroom out of his head like hair plugs?? Wait-- could they give him inset eyes like a doll?? I apologize if these are all strange thoughts and questions, but these are just the thoughts and questions I have while eating outmeal and having the fungus consume my pigeon brain •🕊

how badly did you think i try not making a vore lore with this

Also its not advice-able to take that mushroom out of his head for.... reasons ill draw when i get on computer. Theres a lot of mycellium in his body though, think of it as like a vein system, no bones in there, same hollow. How is that possible? well why are you asking that when grian was turned into this shroom creature

and you can... sadly something will take those silly parts you put though

[trans-mulder]

One thing I've been disappointed about wrt The Last of Us is that they've barely used the "if you step on a piece of fungus you might awaken an entire colony a mile away" plot device. It is literally one of the coolest aspects of this particular story's monster. The mycellium (?) fungal network (?) spans the entire continent, it's been 20 years. What if the ones they accidentally wake up awaken a horde in another state? They should be way more careful where they're walking in general.

#tlou spoilers #the last of us #i haven't played the games at all i mean i guess that's probably obvious #i am probably a fool because the next episode will probably feature it or w/e

[thecruxarm-personal-blog]

Introducing: the Grape Fungus!!!! :D

(Creative name, I know

The Grape Fungus, which I have informally named after all the purple "sacs" that it grows, is a species which holds a deeply symbiotic relationship with the Dome Trees, which I posted about earlier today :]

Regarding this symbiotic relationship between the Grape Fungus and the Dome Tree, the Dome Tree provides shelter and an overabundance of nutrients for the comparatively much smaller Grape Fungus, who in turn offer carbon for the tree to absorb; with carbon being an especially valued resource by all plants on this planet during this time period, due to the very low CO2 levels.

More onto the physical biology of these fellas, the Grape Fungus are composed mainly of mycellium, which of course anchors it to the ground and allows for the fungus to absorb nutrients from the Dome Tree, and of these purple sacks which contain and process the various nutrients present innthe Dome Tree's xylem and phloem in order to grow its own body. The membranes of these sacks are externally composed of carbon (though the interior of the sac membrane is formed out of other elements which do not react with any of the tree's biochemicals).

It should also be noted that lots of oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen are inside the xylem and phloem of the Dome Tree, as having elements which bond with carbon so easily is very benefitial due to the tree's heavy reliance on the element. The high presence of these three elements is also what gives the sacs of the Grape Fungus its purple colour (with hydrogen being white, oxygen being red and nitrogen being blue).

The Grape Fungus also reproduce via their sacks "exploding" - when this happens, their spores are dispersed nearby, although the Grape Fungus does not grow outside the safety of the shade provided by the Dome Tree. When the sacs explode, the leftover nutrients not used up by the fungus and the carbon in the membranes of the sacs are absorbed by the Dome Tree. Since the carbon in the sacs membranes of the Grape Fungus is not recycled biomass from the Dome Tree, this means the tree actually gains more carbon compared to the amount of nutrients absorbed by the fungus. The Dome Tree is also too large for the fungus to actually weaken it to any substantial extent by leeching off of its nutrients.

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That's another species out of the way :D

I'm not super experienced yet in designing alien organisms and all of that business, so theres probably at least a few mistakes or holes in my logic regarding the Grape Fungus and Dome Tree regarding their biology or the way their symbiosis works, but if i do ever or already have gotten anything wrong, by all means feel free to point it out to me :D im very willing to rework any stuff i do for this project if its not super realistic

#spec bio #speculative biology #xenobiology #original species #worldbuilding #aliens #fungus #fytikó #fytikóworld

[whirld-of-color]

hi everybody i would like to show off my new not-exactly-oc idea, aka:

has anyone considered the potential of neural nets in this world? because i have. at great length.

now, unfortunately for me and fortunately for the ava/avm world at large, the neural net i have been thinking about is not, in fact, sapient. it doesn’t really think.

it might be sentient. it’s probably sentient. it’s sentient like a fungus. you see this shit?

that’s a fungus. that’s a fucking mycellium, baybee!

...anyway, neural nets. have you guys seen dall-e? yes. you have. i said, “well, if you told dall-e to generate stick figures, would those malformed stick figures come to life?” and then i thought about it, and the answer is “only kind of! if the creation of stick figures relies on the user’s thoughts or intent or something about being a human, and the dall-e isn’t enough of a thinking entity to have thoughts and definitely isn’t human, maybe the sticks are a little bit sentient, but not intelligent.“

now, say some random college kid or someone who didn’t know about stick figures gave their pet neural net a goal of “make accurate stick figures, in a variety of antomically-correct poses, that look like a human drew them,” and instead of interpreting “accurate stick figure, like it was human drawn” as "it looks right and like a human did it," after awhile, it began to do something like "create stick figure that is sentient. you know. those stick figures, the ones my creator doesn't know about. create a stick figure that thinks like that and looks like that and acts like that"

and then, well, universal paperclips and all- the neural net took over whatever computer it was hosted on and locked out all human input. and now it’s running an internet-based stick-figure-generating operation.

minor problem: it’s not a thinking person. it can’t create thinking stick figures.

major solution: simply steal the (metaphysical?) brains of thinking stick figures!

#animator vs animation #animation vs minecraft #alan becker #ava oc #avm oc #original posting #i will continue this in reblogs hold on lads

[hamletisintown]

I absolutely adore your centipede dna art. It has Vibes and reminds me of one the gods I made to replace the original dnd gods for the setting I'm working on. He's Father Weaver and as an entity involves spider, centipede, and fungus elements. He's the embodiment of all relationships between all people - "the golden strands that connect us all" (aka his blood aka fungus stuff!). He's one of the main gods of the dairau (drow replacement/reworking) pantheon. Sorry for the rambling it just every time I see it on my dash it's like... yeah. that's about right isn't it.

Hey, I'm super happy you enjoy that piece! I really like it as a concept so I'm glad to see others do as well!

That's a really cool concept for a god, I love when people make deities that have spider and/or centipede (and/or just any type of bug that is usually considered creepy or scary) and give them positive aspects instead of just making them "the bad scary evil god" or something. I love how the bonds between people are represented by the strands of spider silk, but also with the fungus aspect there's the idea of people being interconnected like mushrooms and plants through mycellium in the soil... Like there's just so much imagery to play with here, I love mashing concepts together!

Incidentally, I also have a centipede deity in the lore I'm making up for my OCs, her name is Gaia and she is the goddess of the soil and things that decay and entropy (and so ofc that goes hand in hand with mushrooms and bacteria and soil fauna, i mean, she's a centipede so it's right there in the design), while herself being unchanged and unmovable, guardian of history and ancient knowledge, like a dragon hoarding information instead of material riches. (She's one of a pantheon of 6 bug deities, the others are everchanging and she is the only one who really remains still and ever the same)

I haven't yet talked about her much but you can check my lore tag if that's something you're interested in, i have insect and spider people and stuff!

I just really love bugs.

Thanks again for the kind words, and for sharing this with me!!

#ask #castorambles

[bellafragolina]

[chat]

Yes! I just dug around into stuff about cordyceps unilateralis!

It's sooo fucked up how it affects these ants. Poor bastards are like stumbling around and falling over. They then climb to an optimal height on a plant and bite into a stem or leaf. It's always a very sturdy part of he plant like a leaf vein or stem that the ant can fit the mandibles around.

Then the mycellium eats away the bits that control the mandibles. The ant, still alive, is now unable to let go of the plant and just gets to sit here and wait to die.

--Warden anon

i love it i love it i love it

good shit! the horror! the amazing ability of this fungus! the interesting way it's somehow able to control a living thing despite being a fungus??? love it all

so so good

~Renee

#warden anon

[thoughts-of-a-noodle]

My targeted adds are desperately trying to make me get rid of my nail fungus, but little do they know, i have fused with the mycellium and ascended to a higher state of being

#mycelium #mushrooms #nails #nail fungus #targeted ads #targeted advertising