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mycosprite · 2 days
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Egghead Mottlegill Panaeolus semiovatus
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fungitopia · 18 hours
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So many Heath navel, Lichenomphalia umbellifera.
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turnipot · 5 months
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Illustration for birdmoss
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irideer · 9 months
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footsteps! by lynne bellchamber .𖥔 ݁ ˖ִ ࣪⚝₊ ⊹˚
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allofthedoodles · 7 months
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Finally feeling like autumn 🍂🎃
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Little Mushroom Cardigan by LauranicusGoods
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archerinventive · 7 days
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With the beginning of gardening season just around the corner, stop by the shop to pick up some mushroom stakes for an extra touch of magic. :)
You never know what kind of creatures you'll attract. ^^
https://www.etsy.com/shop/ArcherInventive
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rebeccathenaturalist · 3 months
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The most salient point to me in all this is that he used an unnamed ID app to try to figure out what mushrooms he found because he thought "Man those look good." The app misidentified the mushrooms as edible puffballs, but in reality they were destroying angels (Amanita ocreata). One is enough to kill an adult, and this person ate four of them. He's very, very lucky to be alive.
This is far from the first time someone put their entire faith in a single app to tell them what mushroom they were looking at, and then they paid the price with their health. You're going to hear me say this again and again: never, ever, ever use an app as your only tool for identifying anything, especially if you're planning to eat it. An app can be useful in conjunction with other tools like books, websites, online foraging groups, etc. But apps are frequently wrong, and are not the easy answer many people seem to want them to be.
(Rant about foraging below the cut.)
This right here is why I spend a decent amount of time in my foraging classes trying to scare the hell out of my students. I want them to understand the risks, not just as a brief aside, but as anecdotes I've collected from the news over the years like this one. I have had more than one person say afterward "Wow, I had a really romanticized view of foraging, and now I'm going to be more careful." That's a clue to me that I've done my job.
It's why my classes are SO focused on identification skills and tools to make you a more informed and careful forager. I am not going to just spend a bunch of time showing you slides of all sorts of edible species, with a little bit of information on how to identify and collect them tucked in before or after. Yes, we do look at some beginner-friendly species near the end of the class, but if all you want to get out of a foraging class is names and pictures of edible plants or fungi, that's what field guides are for. I spend the bulk of the time doing my absolute best to make sure people are PREPARED to go out and use their observational and critical thinking skills when assessing a new-to-them species, to include making use of many different types of resource, not just a single app.
I have literally had people complain that we spent too much time on "boring" stuff, and not enough on the edible species themselves---aaaaaand I don't care. My goal is to try as hard as I can to make sure incidents like the article above don't happen in the first place, which is going to take more than a couple of hours of looking at pretty pictures of mushrooms. Sure, sometimes all you get is a night of bad indigestion, but if you get one of the really nasty species full of amatoxins, you can die. Or end up with permanent liver and/or kidney damage. Or need an organ transplant.
And yes, as I said, you will get information on some species that I think are relatively beginner-friendly because they're distinctive AND they don't have any really serious poisonous lookalikes. But puffballs aren't on that list, and this article is a perfect example of why.
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goblincore-goth · 1 year
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Some of the mini needle felted mushrooms I've been making, so my dolls can play with them.
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lycomorpha · 3 months
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It's Friday. Please enjoy this brittlegill fungus sketch from my mailing list zine. And this page of associated fungi sketchbook carnage 🍄✏️ (The ink drawing from my AC Valhalla video game botany illustrations is on that sheet too)
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bansheehaunt · 10 months
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Fairy Ink Cap (Coprinellus disseminatus)
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mycosprite · 30 days
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Sulphur Tuft Hypholoma fasciculare
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fungitopia · 4 months
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Yellow Brain, Tremella mesenterica on some Gorse on Dartmoor.
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heaveninawildflower · 10 months
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Botanical illustrations of fungi taken from ‘Botanischer Bilderatlas’ by E. Dennert.
Published 1911 by Schweizerbart.
MBLWHOI Library.
archive.org
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Sycamore
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allofthedoodles · 1 year
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My first stained glass this year and I definitely overused the iridescent colours 😌✨
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