mushrooms – ephal ephalak idon hi-akallabeth

ivana recently taught me how to play magic the gathering, and thEN SHE MADE ME A SAPROLING DECK 🍄

Legend has it that the name [Mycenae] was connected to the Greek word mycēs (μύκης, “mushroom”). Thus, Pausanias ascribes the name to the legendary founder Perseus, who was said to have named it either after the cap (mykēs) of the sheath of his sword, or after a mushroom he had plucked on the site.

“hey guys, any ideas for the name of our city? our mighty capital city, from which we will bring the world under our sway with fire and the sword? our city, blessèd by the gods? like “DRAGON” or something powerful? maybe lions? guys? no?“

"there are some really good mushrooms here!"

normal-horoscopes:

READER X MASSIVE ANCIENT PLANETWIDE FUNGAL GROUPMIND THAT SEES HUMANS LIKE AN ANTHILL AND DOESNT CONSIDER THEM SENTIENT

CHAPTER 6: FINGERBLASTING THE REANIMATED CORPSE OF A MUSHROOM CULTIST

sixpenceee:

Amethyst mushrooms. Elaeomyxa Cerifera, identified in 1942. This fungi’s fruiting structures split open to release spores which sparkle like a disco ball. It looks like a whole Galaxy in a single mushroom.

malformalady:

Hygrocybe psittacina, commonly known as the Parrot Toadstool or Parrot Waxcap, is a colourful member of the genus Hygrocybe, the waxcaps, found across Northern Europe.

Photo credit: Miguel A. Ribes Ripoll

pseudopupil:

and here we just have a good book cover be it for for mycology or any other topic

treemigration:

Fluted Bird’s Nest Fungus

Cyathus striatus

This is another species I would love to assume that could be in a state of flux as far as phylogenetic reorganization becoming involved; but, I could be very wrong.( can’t find any papers )

Currently, I tend to find several temperate color and size morphs that make me think of this species as something separate. With that said, fungi is weird and can fruit whenever or wherever as long as conditions are right. The identifier for this species that leads to C. striatus is the fluted cup inside and the shaggy mane on the outside for the northern temperate regions of the United States; with this in mind, I usually find a brown shag dark flute wide cup morph and this tan flute white shag narrow cup morph.

Who knows… @ascomycotas or @microcosmicobservations maybe you could shed some light.

Photographed at H. H. Farm, Oxford, Ohio.

agroshka:

Mushroom fairy.

shroomlings:

@lovplant submitted to @shroomlings
tiny shrooms growing in some douglas fir cones

Aaaaaw how cute! I love mini mushrooms! No idea what they are, unfortunately. My guesses would be either

Dendrocollybia racemosa

or
Mycena speirea, but that’s really just a guess based on what the mushroom database days when I enter all the values visible in your pictures. Maybe someone else has an idea? Nevertheless, they’re very cute. Thanks for the pictures!