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Lukas VF Novak

Thousands of #trees planted in #Devon to start creation of Celtic rainforest
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/29/thousands-of-trees-planted-in-devon-to-start-creation-of-celtic-rainforest

"They used to cover large parts of #Britain... The mature temperate #rainforest will take several decades to become established, but the gains for nature will be much swifter... #TemperateRainforests support an abundance of #wildlife including #birds while their damp conditions mean #mosses, #liverworts, #lichens, #ferns and #fungi thrive on the trees as well as the forest floor."

Photo of a forest with trees covered in mosses and lichens

Mark H

"Don't the people on Mastodon like things like that?" asked my wife, pointing at the growth of fungus on the base of a cut-down tree trunk as we walked near our hotel.

"Not all of them," I replied. "Half a dozen on beige.party likely don't care for this stuff at all, and as for infosec.exchange, don't even go there. But the rest, yes."

"What?"

"I'll post the photo."

#Fungi #Tree #Photography

"Don't the people on Mastodon like things like that?" asked my wife, pointing at the growth of fungus on the base of a cut-down tree trunk as we walked near our hotel.

"Not all of them," I replied. "Half a dozen on beige.party likely don't care for this stuff at all, and as for infosec.exchange, don't even go there. But the rest, yes."

"What?"

"I'll post the photo."

#Fungi #Tree #Photography

A close view of the bottom of a tree trunk, low to the ground with lots of grass growing. The tree trunk has lots of fungal growth on it, large frills like the underside of mushrooms growing outwards and overlapping.

eclectech

I found a face in the fungi! And you know me by now, I do like to share a found face. Sorry about that 😬

#sillyScribbles #fungi #photography

A photo of a tree trunk with layers of bracket fungi on it. The photo has three vertical strips; on the left is tree bark, down the centre is the fungi, on the right is a dull blue blurred sky. The central section had large canopy of fungi with two small protuberances on its top, which looked to me like an open mouth and slightly squinting bulbous eyes, so I added some teeth, darkened the mouth interior a little, and draw eyes onto the protuberances. It looks like an old face, mid-story, possibly slightly drunk. Sort of.

Carlos Aguilar 🏳‍🌈

#Introduction

I am fungal ecologist working at the Universtiy of Jyväskylä in Finland. I lead a lab focused on documenting and understanding the extraordinary diversity of mycelia and spores across different groups of #fungi

Eager to interact more here!

Ms. Que Banh

#MushroomsMonday

My 2nd flush of #homegrown chestnut #mushrooms is doing pretty well.

#fungi #food #EdibleMushrooms #fungus

A cluster of mushrooms grows from a rough, textured surface. The mushrooms vary in height, with slender stalks and small, open caps. Some caps are light brown while others are darker, adding visual interest. The background is slightly blurred.

Psydrache

A cute little toadstool welcomes the new year with us! It's really very small, it almost fits in your pocket. A warm white mini LED has been installed.

For sale! CHF 50.-

#mushrooms #fungi #fungifriends #mosstodon #art #MastoArt #forest #pilze #wald

A cute little toadstool welcomes the new year with us! It's really very small, it almost fits in your pocket. A warm white mini LED has been installed.

For sale! CHF 50.-

#mushrooms #fungi #fungifriends #mosstodon #art #MastoArt #forest #pilze #wald

A delicious little mushroom, a fly agaric with a red cap with white dots and a white stem, on a piece of wood covered with moss. The background is light green.

The mushroom cap of the said mushroom in the dark. Everything is black, only the cap of the mushroom glows warm yellow.

Szescstopni

Not enough of them to make a decent meal, but chanterelles shouldn't be growing at all at this time of the year.

#fungi #fungiverse #mushrooms #Polesia

Not enough of them to make a decent meal, but chanterelles shouldn't be growing at all at this time of the year.

#fungi #fungiverse #mushrooms #Polesia

Two chanterelle mushrooms on a forest floor, one growing from the ground, blending in with the surrounding dead leaves, the other cut and placed upside-down, with its usual orange color.

Helena Simmons

Photo from last week when I spotted these tiny perfect mushrooms growing out of a leaf.
#fungi #mushtodon

A fragment of beech leaf held between a thumb and finger. Two tiny white mushrooms are growing out of the leaf.
The background is blurred vegetation

Eyeling

#mosstodon #fungi #mushrooms #macro #macrophotography #MoosMittwoch

Close-up on a tiny single one growing in a patch of moss

a bundle of tiny white mushrooms sprouting in a bed of wer moss surrounded by large colourful shelf fungi that tower over them almost like roofs

Jon Kirkendall

I harvested 19 ounces of home grown Lion's Mane mushrooms! We've already cooked a meal with them and they are so tasty!

#MushroomMonday
#Mushroom #fungi

I harvested 19 ounces of home grown Lion's Mane mushrooms! We've already cooked a meal with them and they are so tasty!

#MushroomMonday
#Mushroom #fungi

Several very large Lion's Mane mushrooms stacked one on top of another on a grey scale. The mushrooms are white and look a bit like cauliflower as opposed to the tradition mushroom look.

Frosch B

eine mini-idylle in einer gabelung im stamm einer kastanie, über 2 meter über dem boden. schaut euch den hübschen pilz an, der da ein wirklich erhabenes und doch sehr gut geschütztes plätzchen für sich gefunden hat :3

#fungi #Mosstodon #fungiverse #auwaldrunde

blick in eine nische zwischen 2 baumstämmen, direkt über der stelle wo sich der stamm gabelt. unten am boden der nische wächst moos, links am baum wächst eine ranke efeu empor. die rinde des baums ist schuppig und mit hell bläulich graugrünen flechten bewachsen. in der nische steht ein abgebrochener zweig aufrecht hineingelehnt, da sind auch noch rostbraun vertrocknete kastanienblätter dran. außerdem sprießt im schutz des zweiges ein michkaffeefarbener hutpilz, dessen hut am rand in regelmäßigen abständen einreißt. eigentlich sind es 2 pilze, aber vom hinteren sieht man nur ein stück

Damson :nonbinary_flag:

I drew some shaggy inkcaps!

#fungi

A drawing of two shaggy inkcap mushrooms, in black ink and white pencil on tan paper. The mushrooms have thin stalks and wide parasols, the underside of which is gloopy and drippy, like it's coated in tar.

Sean Riley

#mushroom #fungi
From our walk today, the orange color fits right in with fall.

A bunch of small orange mushrooms growing on a brown log with some green moss growing on it. Yellow tree leaves are in the distance

Mark Ohe

A vast underground network of fungi has been supporting life above ground for 450 million years, but the recent discovery by scientists, including researchers from the University of Sheffield, that fungi is storing OVER ONE THIRD OF THE CARBON created from fossil fuel emissions each year indicates that it could be crucial as nations seek to tackle climate change and reach net zero emissions

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/fungi-stores-third-carbon-fossil-fuel-emissions-and-could-be-essential-reaching-net-zero

#Fungi #Climate #Carbon #Emissions

eclectech

Found more friends in the forest

#sillyScribbles #photography #fungiFriday #silly #fungi #nonsense

A photo of some small, round, bumpy, brown fungi growing on a mossy tree stump against a blurred greeny-brown backdrop. Two are side by side, and I have drawn smiling faces on them and little arms so they can hold hands. One in the background, slightly out of focus, has a hole in it like a wide open mouth, and I have also added eyes and a raised arm. I'm not sure if they are shouting for attention, or shocked at the outrageous hand holding.