Fall is my favorite time of year β€οΈβ¨
@mandiequark
Your friendly neighborhood Mycologist π Community Science Director at Mycota Lab 𧬠Creating networks of field collectors across North and South America πΈοΈ Rainforests are my happy place βοΈπβ¨ https://linktr.ee/mandie_quark
Fall is my favorite time of year β€οΈβ¨
Fall is the best time of year for #mushrooms #π
Iβm loving these rainbow Lactarius chelidonium var. chelidonoides
As a traveling mycologist Iβve been kicking around in Colorado for the last 3 weeks. Itβs been absolutely amazingβ¨
Arctia caja (the great tiger moth!) at 9,000 ft elevation in gorgeous Telluride, Colorado ποΈβ€οΈβ¨
You can always ask your friendly neighborhood mycologist! Or, just post it on iNaturalist for community consensus!
Summer bounty π
#fungifriends #biodiversity #northcarolina #appalachia
Phaeolus!!
Gymnopilus for sure!
This is Oudemansiella! β€οΈβ¨
Confirming ID - youβre right!
Amanita cruentilemurum - the name of this mushroom means βbloody ghostβ probably because itβs all-white but stains red when handled or sliced π©Έπ»
#fungifriends #biodiversity #inaturalist
These were either sequenced by Mycota Lab or OMDL, and they may not be in Genbank but theyβre definitely on MycoMap. You can run a MycoMap BLAST by clicking the MycoMap BLAST Results link (right side) on any of these observations
There are 6 observations on iNaturalist with DNA sequence data, check it out www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Pretty pink Porpolomopsis, looking like a ballerina in the forest. This is likely a species new to science, discovered by our research crew last month in Costa Rica π
#biodiversity #new #pink #mushroom #fungi #ballerina #science #nature #discovery #costarica
Sometimes when I feel unhappy, I remember that Iβm alive and get to experience this amazing life. Some people Iβve known are gone too soon. Yet, miraculously, Iβm still hereβ¦ kickin, screamin, and pickin mushrooms πππ
Gorgeous flowers grow on the side of the road! This prickly poppy, in the genus Argemone, was captured on a back road in southern New Mexico π
#plants #backroad #biodiversity #newmexico
Agaricus section Arvenses from southern New Mexico, growing under a mature blue Spruce at the edge of a gorgeous field on the top of a mountain at sunset β€οΈ
Southern New Mexico has an amazing diversity of fungi, including this awesome new species of Neoboletus with the provisional name "southwestern rainbow" π
I want to pick it and cook it!
Gills like a fancy dress πβ¨
#chanterelles
Morel mushroom in the snowmelt
Morels in the snowmelt β€οΈβ¨
#mushrooms
Itβs not toxic or psychoactive. This is a choice edible! It actually tastes rather like corn. Can turn eggs green when cooked together!!
No but that was clearly a missed opportunity! Thanks for the idea π‘π©΅β¨
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Amazing!! π©΅πβ¨
Thank you so much ππ©΅β¨
Youβre so welcome!! π©΅πβ¨
No, itβs a choice edible without psychoactive properties π©΅
Yes way!! ππ©΅βοΈβ¨
Gills of a gorgeous Lactarius in baby blue
Lactarius indigo from the old growth oak forests of southern Mexico ππ©΅π¦β¨
#bkuesky #blue #mushroom #fungi #nature #art #macro #photography #mexico